Course Outline
Introduction
- Defining "Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing"
Installing spaCy
spaCy Components
- Part-of-speech tagger
- Named entity recognizer
- Dependency parser
Overview of spaCy Features and Syntax
Understanding spaCy Modeling
- Statistical modeling and prediction
Using the SpaCy Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Basic commands
Creating a Simple Application to Predict Behavior
Training a New Statistical Model
- Data (for training)
- Labels (tags, named entities, etc.)
Loading the Model
- Shuffling and looping
Saving the Model
Providing Feedback to the Model
- Error gradient
Updating the Model
- Updating the entity recognizer
- Extracting tokens with rule-based matcher
Developing a Generalized Theory for Expected Outcomes
Case Study
- Distinguishing Product Names from Company Names
Refining the Training Data
- Selecting representative data
- Setting the dropout rate
Other Training Styles
- Passing raw texts
- Passing dictionaries of annotations
Using spaCy to Pre-process Text for Deep Learning
Integrating spaCy with Legacy Applications
Testing and Debugging the spaCy Model
- The importance of iteration
Deploying the Model to Production
Monitoring and Adjusting the Model
Troubleshooting
Summary and Conclusion
Requirements
- Python programming experience.
- A basic understanding of statistics
- Experience with the command line
Audience
- Developers
- Data scientists
Testimonials
I did like the exercises
Office for National Statistics
Very knowledgeable
Usama Adam - TWPI
The way he present everything with examples and training was so useful
Ibrahim Mohammedameen - TWPI
Organization, adhering to the proposed agenda, the trainer's vast knowledge in this subject
Ali Kattan - TWPI
This is one of the best hands-on with exercises programming courses I have ever taken.
Laura Kahn
The topics referring to NLG. The team was able to learn something new in the end with topics that were interesting but it was only in the last day. There were also more hands on activities than slides which was good.
- Accenture Inc
the last day. generation part
- Accenture Inc
About face area.
- 中移物联网
This is one of the best quality online trainings I have ever taken in my 13 year career. Keep up the great work!
I like that it focuses more on the how-to of the different text summarization methods