April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
7h 40m
English
RNNs have been used extensively by the natural language processing (NLP) community for various applications. One such application is building language models. A language model allows us to predict the probability of a word in a text given the previous words. Language models are important for various higher level tasks such as machine translation, spelling correction, and so on.
A side effect of the ability to predict the next word given previous words is a generative model that allows us to generate text by sampling from the output probabilities. In language modeling, our input is typically a sequence of words and the output is a sequence of predicted words. The training data used is existing unlabeled ...