Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Perceptron
- 3 Logistic Regression
- 4 Implementing Text Classification Using Perceptron and Logistic Regression
- 5 Feed-Forward Neural Networks
- 6 Best Practices in Deep Learning
- 7 Implementing Text Classification with Feed-Forward Networks
- 8 Distributional Hypothesis and Representation Learning
- 9 Implementing Text Classification Using Word Embeddings
- 10 Recurrent Neural Networks
- 11 Implementing Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Recurrent Neural Networks
- 12 Contextualized Embeddings and Transformer Networks
- 13 Using Transformers with the Hugging Face Library
- 14 Encoder-Decoder Methods
- 15 Implementing Encoder-Decoder Methods
- 16 Neural Architectures for Natural Language Processing Applications
- Appendix A Overview of the Python Language and Key Libraries
- Appendix B Character Encodings: ASCII and Unicode
- References
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Perceptron
- 3 Logistic Regression
- 4 Implementing Text Classification Using Perceptron and Logistic Regression
- 5 Feed-Forward Neural Networks
- 6 Best Practices in Deep Learning
- 7 Implementing Text Classification with Feed-Forward Networks
- 8 Distributional Hypothesis and Representation Learning
- 9 Implementing Text Classification Using Word Embeddings
- 10 Recurrent Neural Networks
- 11 Implementing Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Recurrent Neural Networks
- 12 Contextualized Embeddings and Transformer Networks
- 13 Using Transformers with the Hugging Face Library
- 14 Encoder-Decoder Methods
- 15 Implementing Encoder-Decoder Methods
- 16 Neural Architectures for Natural Language Processing Applications
- Appendix A Overview of the Python Language and Key Libraries
- Appendix B Character Encodings: ASCII and Unicode
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter motivates the need for a book that covers both theoretical and practical aspects of deep learning for natural language processing. We summarize the content of the book, as well as aspects that are not within scope, and current limitations of deep learning in general.
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- Deep Learning for Natural Language ProcessingA Gentle Introduction, pp. 1 - 7Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024