Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing

1 Deep learning for NLP

This chapter covers

• Taking a short road trip through machine learning applied to NLP
• Learning about the historical roots of deep learning
• Introducing vector-based representations of language

Language comes naturally to humans but has historically been hard for computers to grasp. This book addresses the application of recent, cutting-edge deep learning techniques to automated language analysis. In the last decade, deep learning has emerged as the vehicle of the latest wave in artificial intelligence (AI). Results have consistently redefined the state of the art for a plethora of data analysis tasks in a variety of domains. For an increasing number of deep learning algorithms, better- than-human (human-parity or superhuman) ...