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Applied Natural Language Processing with Python
Learn to harness the power of AI for natural language processing, performing tasks such as spell check, text summarization, document classification, and natural language generation. Along the way, you will learn the skills to implement these methods in larger infrastructures to replace existing code or create new algorithms. Applied Natural Language Processing with Python starts with reviewing the necessary machine learning concepts before moving onto discussing various NLP problems. After reading this book, you will have the skills to apply these concepts in your own professional environment.What You Will Learn Utilize various machine learning and natural language processing libraries such as TensorFlow, Keras, NLTK, and GensimManipulate and preprocess raw text data in formats such as .txt and .pdfStrengthen your skills in data science by learning both the theory and the application of various algorithms Who This Book Is For You should be at least a beginner in ML to get the most out of this text, but you needn’t feel that you need be an expert to understand the content.
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Natural Language Processing Fundamentals
Use Python and NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) to build out your own text classifiers and solve common NLP problems.Key FeaturesAssimilate key NLP concepts and terminologies Explore popular NLP tools and techniquesGain practical experience using NLP in application codeBook DescriptionIf NLP hasn't been your forte, Natural Language Processing Fundamentals will make sure you set off to a steady start. This comprehensive guide will show you how to effectively use Python libraries and NLP concepts to solve various problems.You'll be introduced to natural language processing and its applications through examples and exercises. This will be followed by an introduction to the initial stages of solving a problem, which includes problem definition, getting text data, and preparing it for modeling. With exposure to concepts like advanced natural language processing algorithms and visualization techniques, you'll learn how to create applications that can extract information from unstructured data and present it as impactful visuals. Although you will continue to learn NLP-based techniques, the focus will gradually shift to developing useful applications. In these sections, you'll understand how to apply NLP techniques to answer questions as can be used in chatbots. By the end of this book, you'll be able to accomplish a varied range of assignments ranging from identifying the most suitable type of NLP task for solving a problem to using a tool like spacy or gensim for performing sentiment analysis. The book will easily equip you with the knowledge you need to build applications that interpret human language.What you will learnObtain, verify, and clean data before transforming it into a correct format for usePerform data analysis and machine learning tasks using PythonUnderstand the basics of computational linguisticsBuild models for general natural language processing tasksEvaluate the performance of a model with the right metricsVisualize, quantify, and perform exploratory analysis from any text dataWho this book is forNatural Language Processing Fundamentals is designed for novice and mid-level data scientists and machine learning developers who want to gather and analyze text data to build an NLP-powered product. It'll help you to have prior experience of coding in Python using data types, writing functions, and importing libraries. Some experience with linguistics and probability is useful but not necessary.
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Natural Language Processing with Spark NLP
If you want to build an enterprise-quality application that uses natural language text but aren't sure where to begin or what tools to use, this practical guide will help get you started. Alex Thomas, principal data scientist at Wisecube, shows software engineers and data scientists how to build scalable natural language processing (NLP) applications using deep learning and the Apache Spark NLP library.Through concrete examples, practical and theoretical explanations, and hands-on exercises for using NLP on the Spark processing framework, this book teaches you everything from basic linguistics and writing systems to sentiment analysis and search engines. You'll also explore special concerns for developing text-based applications, such as performance.In four sections, you'll learn NLP basics and building blocks before diving into application and system building:Basics: Understand the fundamentals of natural language processing, NLP on Apache Stark, and deep learningBuilding blocks: Learn techniques for building NLP applications-including tokenization, sentence segmentation, and named-entity recognition-and discover how and why they workApplications: Explore the design, development, and experimentation process for building your own NLP applicationsBuilding NLP systems: Consider options for productionizing and deploying NLP models, including which human languages to support
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Natural Language Processing Workshop
Make NLP easy by building chatbots and models, and executing various NLP tasks to gain data-driven insights from raw text dataKey FeaturesGet familiar with key natural language processing (NLP) concepts and terminologyExplore the functionalities and features of popular NLP toolsLearn how to use Python programming and third-party libraries to perform NLP tasksBook DescriptionDo you want to learn how to communicate with computer systems using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, or make a machine understand human sentiments? Do you want to build applications like Siri, Alexa, or chatbots, even if you've never done it before?With The Natural Language Processing Workshop, you can expect to make consistent progress as a beginner, and get up to speed in an interactive way, with the help of hands-on activities and fun exercises.The book starts with an introduction to NLP. You'll study different approaches to NLP tasks, and perform exercises in Python to understand the process of preparing datasets for NLP models. Next, you'll use advanced NLP algorithms and visualization techniques to collect datasets from open websites, and to summarize and generate random text from a document. In the final chapters, you'll use NLP to create a chatbot that detects positive or negative sentiment in text documents such as movie reviews.By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with the essential NLP tools and techniques you need to solve common business problems that involve processing text.What you will learnObtain, verify, clean and transform text data into a correct format for useUse methods such as tokenization and stemming for text extractionDevelop a classifier to classify comments in Wikipedia articlesCollect data from open websites with the help of web scrapingTrain a model to detect topics in a set of documents using topic modelingDiscover techniques to represent text as word and document vectorsWho this book is forThis book is for beginner to mid-level data scientists, machine learning developers, and NLP enthusiasts. A basic understanding of machine learning and NLP is required to help you grasp the topics in this workshop more quickly.
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Natural Language Processing with Python
This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation. With it, you'll learn how to write Python programs that work with large collections of unstructured text. You'll access richly annotated datasets using a comprehensive range of linguistic data structures, and you'll understand the main algorithms for analyzing the content and structure of written communication. Packed with examples and exercises, Natural Language Processing with Python will help you: * Extract information from unstructured text, either to guess the topic or identify "named entities" * Analyze linguistic structure in text, including parsing and semantic analysis * Access popular linguistic databases, including WordNet and treebanks * Integrate techniques drawn from fields as diverse as linguistics and artificial intelligence This book will help you gain practical skills in natural language processing using the Python programming language and the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) open source library.If you're interested in developing web applications, analyzing multilingual news sources, or documenting endangered languages -- or if you're simply curious to have a programmer's perspective on how human language works -- you'll find Natural Language Processing with Python both fascinating and immensely useful.
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Hands-On Markov Models with Python
Unleash the power of unsupervised machine learning in Hidden Markov Models using TensorFlow, pgmpy, and hmmlearnKey FeaturesBuild a variety of Hidden Markov Models (HMM)Create and apply models to any sequence of data to analyze, predict, and extract valuable insightsUse natural language processing (NLP) techniques and 2D-HMM model for image segmentationBook DescriptionHidden Markov Model (HMM) is a statistical model based on the Markov chain concept. Hands-On Markov Models with Python helps you get to grips with HMMs and different inference algorithms by working on real-world problems. The hands-on examples explored in the book help you simplify the process flow in machine learning by using Markov model concepts, thereby making it accessible to everyone.Once you’ve covered the basic concepts of Markov chains, you’ll get insights into Markov processes, models, and types with the help of practical examples. After grasping these fundamentals, you’ll move on to learning about the different algorithms used in inferences and applying them in state and parameter inference. In addition to this, you’ll explore the Bayesian approach of inference and learn how to apply it in HMMs.In further chapters, you’ll discover how to use HMMs in time series analysis and natural language processing (NLP) using Python. You’ll also learn to apply HMM to image processing using 2D-HMM to segment images. Finally, you’ll understand how to apply HMM for reinforcement learning (RL) with the help of Q-Learning, and use this technique for single-stock and multi-stock algorithmic trading.By the end of this book, you will have grasped how to build your own Markov and hidden Markov models on complex datasets in order to apply them to projects.What you will learnExplore a balance of both theoretical and practical aspects of HMMImplement HMMs using different datasets in Python using different packagesUnderstand multiple inference algorithms and how to select the right algorithm to resolve your problemsDevelop a Bayesian approach to inference in HMMsImplement HMMs in finance, natural language processing (NLP), and image processingDetermine the most likely sequence of hidden states in an HMM using the Viterbi algorithmWho this book is forHands-On Markov Models with Python is for you if you are a data analyst, data scientist, or machine learning developer and want to enhance your machine learning knowledge and skills. This book will also help you build your own hidden Markov models by applying them to any sequence of data.Basic knowledge of machine learning and the Python programming language is expected to get the most out of the book
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Hands-On Generative AI with Transformers and Diffusion Models
Learn how to use generative media techniques with AI to create novel images or music in this practical, hands-on guide. Data scientists and software engineers will understand how state-of-the-art generative models work, how to fine-tune and adapt them to your needs, and how to combine existing building blocks to create new models and creative applications in different domains.This book introduces theoretical concepts in an intuitive way, with extensive code samples and illustrations that you can run on services such as Google Colaboratory, Kaggle, or Hugging Face Spaces with minimal setup. You'll learn how to use open source libraries such as Transformers and Diffusers, conduct code exploration, and study several existing projects to help guide your work.Learn the fundamentals of classic and modern generative AI techniquesBuild and customize models that can generate text, images, and soundExplore trade-offs between training from scratch and using large, pretrained modelsCreate models that can modify images by transferring the style of other imagesTweak and bend transformers and diffusion models for creative purposesTrain a model that can write text based on your styleDeploy models as interactive demos or services
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Embeddings in Natural Language Processing
Embeddings have undoubtedly been one of the most influential research areas in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Encoding information into a low-dimensional vector representation, which is easily integrable in modern machine learning models, has played a central role in the development of NLP. Embedding techniques initially focused on words, but the attention soon started to shift to other forms: from graph structures, such as knowledge bases, to other types of textual content, such as sentences and documents.This book provides a high-level synthesis of the main embedding techniques in NLP, in the broad sense. The book starts by explaining conventional word vector space models and word embeddings (e.g., Word2Vec and GloVe) and then moves to other types of embeddings, such as word sense, sentence and document, and graph embeddings. The book also provides an overview of recent developments in contextualized representations (e.g., ELMo and BERT) and explains their potential in NLP.Throughout the book, the reader can find both essential information for understanding a certain topic from scratch and a broad overview of the most successful techniques developed in the literature.
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Coarse-to-Fine Natural Language Processing
The impact of computer systems that can understand natural language will be tremendous. To develop this capability we need to be able to automatically and efficiently analyze large amounts of text. Manually devised rules are not sufficient to provide coverage to handle the complex structure of natural language, necessitating systems that can automatically learn from examples. To handle the flexibility of natural language, it has become standard practice to use statistical models, which assign probabilities for example to the different meanings of a word or the plausibility of grammatical constructions.This book develops a general coarse-to-fine framework for learning and inference in large statistical models for natural language processing.Coarse-to-fine approaches exploit a sequence of models which introduce complexity gradually. At the top of the sequence is a trivial model in which learning and inference are both cheap. Each subsequent model refines the previous one, until a final, full-complexity model is reached. Applications of this framework to syntactic parsing, speech recognition and machine translation are presented, demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach in terms of accuracy and speed. The book is intended for students and researchers interested in statistical approaches to Natural Language Processing. Slav’s work Coarse-to-Fine Natural Language Processing represents a major advance in the area of syntactic parsing, and a great advertisement for the superiority of the machine-learning approach.Eugene Charniak (Brown University)
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Python Natural Language Processing Cookbook
Get to grips with solving real-world NLP problems, such as dependency parsing, information extraction, topic modeling, and text data visualizationKey FeaturesAnalyze varying complexities of text using popular Python packages such as NLTK, spaCy, sklearn, and gensimImplement common and not-so-common linguistic processing tasks using Python librariesOvercome the common challenges faced while implementing NLP pipelinesBook DescriptionPython is the most widely used language for natural language processing (NLP) thanks to its extensive tools and libraries for analyzing text and extracting computer-usable data. This book will take you through a range of techniques for text processing, from basics such as parsing the parts of speech to complex topics such as topic modeling, text classification, and visualization. Starting with an overview of NLP, the book presents recipes for dividing text into sentences, stemming and lemmatization, removing stopwords, and parts of speech tagging to help you to prepare your data. You’ll then learn ways of extracting and representing grammatical information, such as dependency parsing and anaphora resolution, discover different ways of representing the semantics using bag-of-words, TF-IDF, word embeddings, and BERT, and develop skills for text classification using keywords, SVMs, LSTMs, and other techniques. As you advance, you’ll also see how to extract information from text, implement unsupervised and supervised techniques for topic modeling, and perform topic modeling of short texts, such as tweets. Additionally, the book shows you how to develop chatbots using NLTK and Rasa and visualize text data. By the end of this NLP book, you’ll have developed the skills to use a powerful set of tools for text processing.What you will learnBecome well-versed with basic and advanced NLP techniques in PythonRepresent grammatical information in text using spaCy, and semantic information using bag-of-words, TF-IDF, and word embeddingsPerform text classification using different methods, including SVMs and LSTMsExplore different techniques for topic modeling such as K-means, LDA, NMF, and BERTWork with visualization techniques such as NER and word clouds for different NLP toolsBuild a basic chatbot using NLTK and RasaExtract information from text using regular expression techniques and statistical and deep learning toolsWho this book is forThis book is for data scientists and professionals who want to learn how to work with text. Intermediate knowledge of Python will help you to make the most out of this book. If you are an NLP practitioner, this book will serve as a code reference when working on your projects.
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Natural Language Processing
With a machine learning approach and less focus on linguistic details, this gentle introduction to natural language processing develops fundamental mathematical and deep learning models for NLP under a unified framework. NLP problems are systematically organised by their machine learning nature, including classification, sequence labelling, and sequence-to-sequence problems. Topics covered include statistical machine learning and deep learning models, text classification and structured prediction models, generative and discriminative models, supervised and unsupervised learning with latent variables, neural networks, and transition-based methods. Rich connections are drawn between concepts throughout the book, equipping students with the tools needed to establish a deep understanding of NLP solutions, adapt existing models, and confidently develop innovative models of their own. Featuring a host of examples, intuition, and end of chapter exercises, plus sample code available as an online resource, this textbook is an invaluable tool for the upper undergraduate and graduate student.
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Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for Developers
This book is for developers who are looking for an introduction to basic concepts in NLP and machine learning. Numerous code samples and listings are included to support myriad topics. The first two chapters contain introductory material for NumPy and Pandas, followed by chapters on NLP concepts, algorithms and toolkits, machine learning, and NLP applications. The final chapters include examples of NLP tasks using TF2 and Keras, the Transformer architecture, BERT-based models, and the GPT family of models. The appendices contain introductory material (including Python code samples) for various topics, including data and statistics, Python3, regular expressions, Keras, TF2, Matplotlib and Seaborn. Companion files with source code and figures are included. FEATURES • Covers extensive topics related to natural language processing and machine learning • Includes separate appendices on data and statistics, regular expressions, data visualization, Python, Keras, TF2, and more • Features companion files with source code and color figures from the book
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Computer Vision Projects with PyTorch
Design and develop end-to-end, production-grade computer vision projects for real-world industry problems. This book discusses computer vision algorithms and their applications using PyTorch.The book begins with the fundamentals of computer vision: convolutional neural nets, RESNET, YOLO, data augmentation, and other regularization techniques used in the industry. And then it gives you a quick overview of the PyTorch libraries used in the book. After that, it takes you through the implementation of image classification problems, object detection techniques, and transfer learning while training and running inference. The book covers image segmentation and an anomaly detection model. And it discusses the fundamentals of video processing for computer vision tasks putting images into videos. The book concludes with an explanation of the complete model building process for deep learning frameworks using optimized techniques with highlights on model AI explainability.After reading this book, you will be able to build your own computer vision projects using transfer learning and PyTorch.What You Will LearnSolve problems in computer vision with PyTorch.Implement transfer learning and perform image classification, object detection, image segmentation, and other computer vision applicationsDesign and develop production-grade computer vision projects for real-world industry problemsInterpret computer vision models and solve business problemsWho This Book Is ForData scientists and machine learning engineers interested in building computer vision projects and solving business problems
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Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of cur rent developments in corpus-based natural language processing. It is not meant as an introduction to this field; for readers who need one, several entry-level texts are available, including those of (Church and Mercer, 1993; Charniak, 1993; Jelinek, 1997). This book captures the essence of a series of highly successful work shops held in the last few years. The response in 1993 to the initial Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Columbus, Ohio) was so enthusias tic that we were encouraged to make it an annual event. The following year, we staged the Second Workshop on Very Large Corpora in Ky oto. As a way of managing these annual workshops, we then decided to register a special interest group called SIGDAT with the Association for Computational Linguistics. The demand for international forums on corpus-based NLP has been expanding so rapidly that in 1995 SIGDAT was led to organize not only the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Cambridge, Mass. ) but also a complementary workshop entitled From Texts to Tags (Dublin). Obviously, the success of these workshops was in some measure a re flection of the growing popularity of corpus-based methods in the NLP community. But first and foremost, it was due to the fact that the work shops attracted so many high-quality papers.
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Mastering Spark with R
If you’re like most R users, you have deep knowledge and love for statistics. But as your organization continues to collect huge amounts of data, adding tools such as Apache Spark makes a lot of sense. With this practical book, data scientists and professionals working with large-scale data applications will learn how to use Spark from R to tackle big data and big compute problems.Authors Javier Luraschi, Kevin Kuo, and Edgar Ruiz show you how to use R with Spark to solve different data analysis problems. This book covers relevant data science topics, cluster computing, and issues that should interest even the most advanced users.Analyze, explore, transform, and visualize data in Apache Spark with RCreate statistical models to extract information and predict outcomes; automate the process in production-ready workflowsPerform analysis and modeling across many machines using distributed computing techniquesUse large-scale data from multiple sources and different formats with ease from within SparkLearn about alternative modeling frameworks for graph processing, geospatial analysis, and genomics at scaleDive into advanced topics including custom transformations, real-time data processing, and creating custom Spark extensions
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Mastering Machine Learning with Spark 2.x
Unlock the complexities of machine learning algorithms in Spark to generate useful data insights through this data analysis tutorialAbout This Book• Process and analyze big data in a distributed and scalable way• Write sophisticated Spark pipelines that incorporate elaborate extraction• Build and use regression models to predict flight delays Who This Book Is ForAre you a developer with a background in machine learning and statistics who is feeling limited by the current slow and “small data” machine learning tools? Then this is the book for you! In this book, you will create scalable machine learning applications to power a modern data-driven business using Spark. We assume that you already know the machine learning concepts and algorithms and have Spark up and running (whether on a cluster or locally) and have a basic knowledge of the various libraries contained in Spark.What You Will Learn• Use Spark streams to cluster tweets online• Run the PageRank algorithm to compute user influence• Perform complex manipulation of DataFrames using Spark• Define Spark pipelines to compose individual data transformations• Utilize generated models for off-line/on-line prediction• Transfer the learning from an ensemble to a simpler Neural Network• Understand basic graph properties and important graph operations• Use GraphFrames, an extension of DataFrames to graphs, to study graphs using an elegant query language• Use K-means algorithm to cluster movie reviews datasetIn DetailThe purpose of machine learning is to build systems that learn from data. Being able to understand trends and patterns in complex data is critical to success; it is one of the key strategies to unlock growth in the challenging contemporary marketplace today. With the meteoric rise of machine learning, developers are now keen on finding out how can they make their Spark applications smarter.This book gives you access to transform data into actionable knowledge. The book commences by defining machine learning primitives by the MLlib and H2O libraries. You will learn how to use Binary classification to detect the Higgs Boson particle in the huge amount of data produced by CERN particle collider and classify daily health activities using ensemble Methods for Multi-Class Classification.Next, you will solve a typical regression problem involving flight delay predictions and write sophisticated Spark pipelines. You will analyze Twitter data with help of the doc2vec algorithm and K-means clustering. Finally, you will build different pattern mining models using MLlib, perform complex manipulation of DataFrames using Spark and Spark SQL, and deploy your app in a Spark streaming environment.Style and approachThis book takes a practical approach to help you get to grips with using Spark for analytics and to implement machine learning algorithms. We'll teach you about advanced applications of machine learning through illustrative examples. These examples will equip you to harness the potential of mach
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Natural Language Processing with AWS AI Services
Work through interesting real-life business use cases to uncover valuable insights from unstructured text using AWS AI servicesKey FeaturesGet to grips with AWS AI services for NLP and find out how to use them to gain strategic insightsRun Python code to use Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend to accelerate business outcomesUnderstand how you can integrate human-in-the-loop for custom NLP use cases with Amazon A2IBook DescriptionNatural language processing (NLP) uses machine learning to extract information from unstructured data. This book will help you to move quickly from business questions to high-performance models in production.To start with, you'll understand the importance of NLP in today's business applications and learn the features of Amazon Comprehend and Amazon Textract to build NLP models using Python and Jupyter Notebooks. The book then shows you how to integrate AI in applications for accelerating business outcomes with just a few lines of code. Throughout the book, you'll cover use cases such as smart text search, setting up compliance and controls when processing confidential documents, real-time text analytics, and much more to understand various NLP scenarios. You'll deploy and monitor scalable NLP models in production for real-time and batch requirements. As you advance, you'll explore strategies for including humans in the loop for different purposes in a document processing workflow. Moreover, you'll learn best practices for auto-scaling your NLP inference for enterprise traffic.Whether you're new to ML or an experienced practitioner, by the end of this NLP book, you'll have the confidence to use AWS AI services to build powerful NLP applications.What you will learnAutomate various NLP workflows on AWS to accelerate business outcomesUse Amazon Textract for text, tables, and handwriting recognition from images and PDF filesGain insights from unstructured text in the form of sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and more using Amazon ComprehendSet up end-to-end document processing pipelines to understand the role of humans in the loopDevelop NLP-based intelligent search solutions with just a few lines of codeCreate both real-time and batch document processing pipelines using PythonWho this book is forIf you're an NLP developer or data scientist looking to get started with AWS AI services to implement various NLP scenarios quickly, this book is for you. It will show you how easy it is to integrate AI in applications with just a few lines of code. A basic understanding of machine learning (ML) concepts is necessary to understand the concepts covered. Experience with Jupyter notebooks and Python will be helpful.
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Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is intended for researchers who want to keep abreast of cur rent developments in corpus-based natural language processing. It is not meant as an introduction to this field; for readers who need one, several entry-level texts are available, including those of (Church and Mercer, 1993; Charniak, 1993; Jelinek, 1997). This book captures the essence of a series of highly successful work shops held in the last few years. The response in 1993 to the initial Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Columbus, Ohio) was so enthusias tic that we were encouraged to make it an annual event. The following year, we staged the Second Workshop on Very Large Corpora in Ky oto. As a way of managing these annual workshops, we then decided to register a special interest group called SIGDAT with the Association for Computational Linguistics. The demand for international forums on corpus-based NLP has been expanding so rapidly that in 1995 SIGDAT was led to organize not only the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora (Cambridge, Mass. ) but also a complementary workshop entitled From Texts to Tags (Dublin). Obviously, the success of these workshops was in some measure a re flection of the growing popularity of corpus-based methods in the NLP community. But first and foremost, it was due to the fact that the work shops attracted so many high-quality papers.
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Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Inflective Languages
This book covers language modeling and automatic speech recognition for inflective languages (e.g. Slavic languages), which represent roughly half of the languages spoken in Europe. These languages do not perform as well as English in speech recognition systems and it is therefore harder to develop an application with sufficient quality for the end user. The authors describe the most important language features for the development of a speech recognition system. This is then presented through the analysis of errors in the system and the development of language models and their inclusion in speech recognition systems, which specifically address the errors that are relevant for targeted applications. The error analysis is done with regard to morphological characteristics of the word in the recognized sentences. The book is oriented towards speech recognition with large vocabularies and continuous and even spontaneous speech. Today such applications work with a rather small number of languages compared to the number of spoken languages.
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Mastering Machine Learning with R
Stay updated with expert techniques for solving data analytics and machine learning challenges and gain insights from complex projects and power up your applicationsKey FeaturesBuild independent machine learning (ML) systems leveraging the best features of R 3.5Understand and apply different machine learning techniques using real-world examplesUse methods such as multi-class classification, regression, and clusteringBook DescriptionGiven the growing popularity of the R-zerocost statistical programming environment, there has never been a better time to start applying ML to your data. This book will teach you advanced techniques in ML ,using? the latest code in R 3.5. You will delve into various complex features of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning algorithms to design efficient and powerful ML models. This newly updated edition is packed with fresh examples covering a range of tasks from different domains. Mastering Machine Learning with R starts by showing you how to quickly manipulate data and prepare it for analysis. You will explore simple and complex models and understand how to compare them. You’ll also learn to use the latest library support, such as TensorFlow and Keras-R, for performing advanced computations. Additionally, you’ll explore complex topics, such as natural language processing (NLP), time series analysis, and clustering, which will further refine your skills in developing applications. Each chapter will help you implement advanced ML algorithms using real-world examples. You’ll even be introduced to reinforcement learning, along with its various use cases and models. In the concluding chapters, you’ll get a glimpse into how some of these blackbox models can be diagnosed and understood. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills to deploy ML techniques in your own projects or at work.What you will learnPrepare data for machine learning methods with easeUnderstand how to write production-ready code and package it for useProduce simple and effective data visualizations for improved insightsMaster advanced methods, such as Boosted Trees and deep neural networksUse natural language processing to extract insights in relation to textImplement tree-based classifiers, including Random Forest and Boosted TreeWho this book is forThis book is for data science professionals, machine learning engineers, or anyone who is looking for the ideal guide to help them implement advanced machine learning algorithms. The book will help you take your skills to the next level and advance further in this field. Working knowledge of machine learning with R is mandatory.
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Mastering Scala Machine Learning
Advance your skills in efficient data analysis and data processing using the powerful tools of Scala, Spark, and HadoopAbout This Book• This is a primer on functional-programming-style techniques to help you efficiently process and analyze all of your data• Get acquainted with the best and newest tools available such as Scala, Spark, Parquet and MLlib for machine learning• Learn the best practices to incorporate new Big Data machine learning in your data-driven enterprise to gain future scalability and maintainabilityWho This Book Is ForMastering Scala Machine Learning is intended for enthusiasts who want to plunge into the new pool of emerging techniques for machine learning. Some familiarity with standard statistical techniques is required.What You Will Learn• Sharpen your functional programming skills in Scala using REPL• Apply standard and advanced machine learning techniques using Scala• Get acquainted with Big Data technologies and grasp why we need a functional approach to Big Data• Discover new data structures, algorithms, approaches, and habits that will allow you to work effectively with large amounts of data• Understand the principles of supervised and unsupervised learning in machine learning• Work with unstructured data and serialize it using Kryo, Protobuf, Avro, and AvroParquet• Construct reliable and robust data pipelines and manage data in a data-driven enterprise• Implement scalable model monitoring and alerts with ScalaIn DetailSince the advent of object-oriented programming, new technologies related to Big Data are constantly popping up on the market. One such technology is Scala, which is considered to be a successor to Java in the area of Big Data by many, like Java was to C/C++ in the area of distributed programing.This book aims to take your knowledge to next level and help you impart that knowledge to build advanced applications such as social media mining, intelligent news portals, and more. After a quick refresher on functional programming concepts using REPL, you will see some practical examples of setting up the development environment and tinkering with data. We will then explore working with Spark and MLlib using k-means and decision trees.Most of the data that we produce today is unstructured and raw, and you will learn to tackle this type of data with advanced topics such as regression, classification, integration, and working with graph algorithms. Finally, you will discover at how to use Scala to perform complex concept analysis, to monitor model performance, and to build a model repository. By the end of this book, you will have gained expertise in performing Scala machine learning and will be able to build complex machine learning projects using Scala.Style and approachThis hands-on guide dives straight into implementing Scala for machine learning without delving much into mathematical proofs or validations. There are ample code examples and tricks that will help you sail through using the standard techniques
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Mastering Predictive Analytics with R -
Master the craft of predictive modeling in R by developing strategy, intuition, and a solid foundation in essential conceptsAbout This Book• Grasping the major methods of predictive modeling and moving beyond black box thinking to a deeper level of understanding• Leveraging the flexibility and modularity of R to experiment with a range of different techniques and data types• Packed with practical advice and tips explaining important concepts and best practices to help you understand quickly and easilyWho This Book Is ForAlthough budding data scientists, predictive modelers, or quantitative analysts with only basic exposure to R and statistics will find this book to be useful, the experienced data scientist professional wishing to attain master level status , will also find this book extremely valuable.. This book assumes familiarity with the fundamentals of R, such as the main data types, simple functions, and how to move data around. Although no prior experience with machine learning or predictive modeling is required, there are some advanced topics provided that will require more than novice exposure.What You Will Learn• Master the steps involved in the predictive modeling process• Grow your expertise in using R and its diverse range of packages• Learn how to classify predictive models and distinguish which models are suitable for a particular problem• Understand steps for tidying data and improving the performing metrics• Recognize the assumptions, strengths, and weaknesses of a predictive model• Understand how and why each predictive model works in R• Select appropriate metrics to assess the performance of different types of predictive model• Explore word embedding and recurrent neural networks in R• Train models in R that can work on very large datasetsIn DetailR offers a free and open source environment that is perfect for both learning and deploying predictive modeling solutions. With its constantly growing community and plethora of packages, R offers the functionality to deal with a truly vast array of problems.The book begins with a dedicated chapter on the language of models and the predictive modeling process. You will understand the learning curve and the process of tidying data. Each subsequent chapter tackles a particular type of model, such as neural networks, and focuses on the three important questions of how the model works, how to use R to train it, and how to measure and assess its performance using real-world datasets. How do you train models that can handle really large datasets? This book will also show you just that. Finally, you will tackle the really important topic of deep learning by implementing applications on word embedding and recurrent neural networks.By the end of this book, you will have explored and tested the most popular modeling techniques in use on real- world datasets and mastered a diverse range of techniques in predictive analytics using R.Style and approachThis book takes a step-by-step approach in expl
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Mastering Python
Use advanced features of Python to write high-quality, readable code and packagesKey FeaturesExtensively updated for Python 3.10 with new chapters on design patterns, scientific programming, machine learning, and interactive PythonShape your scripts using key concepts like concurrency, performance optimization, asyncio, and multiprocessingLearn how advanced Python features fit together to produce maintainable codeBook DescriptionEven if you find writing Python code easy, writing code that is efficient, maintainable, and reusable is not so straightforward. Many of Python's capabilities are underutilized even by more experienced programmers. Mastering Python, Second Edition, is an authoritative guide to understanding advanced Python programming so you can write the highest quality code. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated with exercises, four new chapters and updates up to Python 3.10. Revisit important basics, including Pythonic style and syntax and functional programming. Avoid common mistakes made by programmers of all experience levels. Make smart decisions about the best testing and debugging tools to use, optimize your code's performance across multiple machines and Python versions, and deploy often-forgotten Python features to your advantage. Get fully up to speed with asyncio and stretch the language even further by accessing C functions with simple Python calls. Finally, turn your new-and-improved code into packages and share them with the wider Python community. If you are a Python programmer wanting to improve your code quality and readability, this Python book will make you confident in writing high-quality scripts and taking on bigger challengesWhat you will learnWrite beautiful Pythonic code and avoid common Python coding mistakesApply the power of decorators, generators, coroutines, and metaclassesUse different testing systems like pytest, unittest, and doctestTrack and optimize application performance for both memory and CPU usageDebug your applications with PDB, Werkzeug, and faulthandlerImprove your performance through asyncio, multiprocessing, and distributed computingExplore popular libraries like Dask, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, TensorFlow, and scikit-learnExtend Python's capabilities with C/C++ libraries and system callsWho this book is forThis book will benefit more experienced Python programmers who wish to upskill, serving as a reference for best practices and some of the more intricate Python techniques. Even if you have been using Python for years, chances are that you haven't yet encountered every topic discussed in this book. A good understanding of Python programming is necessary
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Language at Large
The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon, highlighting their expertise in various fields of linguistics. The first part focusses on linguistic typology, covering case markers used on verbs, argument-determined constructions, unusual meanings of causatives, the semantic basis for a typology, word-class-changing derivations, speech reports and semi-direct speech. The second part concentrates on documentation and analysis of previously undescribed languages, from South America and Indigenous Australia. The third part addresses a variety of issues in grammar and lexicography of English. This includes pronouns with transferred reference, comparative constructions, features of the noun phrase, and the discussion of 'twice'. The treatment of Australian Aboriginal words in dictionaries is discussed in the final chapter.
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Language
This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from English. Chapter 1 expounds the basic idea that underlies this approach-that a natural language must be described as a correspondence between linguistic meanings and linguistic texts-and explains the organization of the book. Chapter 2 introduces the notion of linguistic functional model, the three postulates of the Meaning-Text approach (a language is a particular meaning-text correspondence, a language must be described by a functional model and linguistic utterances must be treated at the level of the sentence and that of the word) and the perspective "from meaning to text" for linguistic descriptions. Chapter 3 contains a characterization of a particular Meaning-Text model: formal linguistic representations on the semantic, the syntactic and the morphological levels and the modules of a linguistic model that link these representations. Chapter 4 covers two central problems of the Meaning-Text approach: semantic decomposition and restricted lexical cooccurrence (≈ lexical functions); particular attention is paid to the correlation between semantic components in the definition of a lexical unit and the values of its lexical functions. Chapter 5 discusses five select issues: 1) the orientation of a linguistic description must be from meaning to text (using as data Spanish semivowels and Russian binominative constructions); 2) a system of notions and terms for linguistics (linguistic sign and the operation of linguistic union; notion of word; case, voice, and ergative construction); 3) formal description of meaning (strict semantic decomposition, standardization of semantemes, the adequacy of decomposition, the maximal block principle); 4) the Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary (with a sample of complete lexical entries for Russian vocables); 5) dependencies in language, in particular—syntactic dependencies (the criteria for establishing a set of surface-syntactic relations for a language are formulated). Three appendices follow: a phonetic table, an inventory of surface-syntactic relations for English and an overview of all possible combinations of the three types of dependency (semantic, syntactic, and morphological). The book is supplied with a detailed index of notions and terms, which includes a linguistic glossary.
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