CS5720 - Week 6
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Text Processing with RNNs

Natural Language & RNNs

RNNs excel at text processing because language is inherently sequential. Words depend on previous words for meaning, making RNNs a natural choice for NLP tasks.
Why RNNs for Text?
Sequential Nature: Process text word by word
Context Awareness: Remember previous words
Variable Length: Handle texts of any size
Shared Parameters: Same weights for all positions

Text Processing Applications

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Language Modeling
Predict next word in sequence
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Sentiment Analysis
Classify text emotions
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Named Entity Recognition
Identify people, places, dates
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Machine Translation
Translate between languages

Text Processing Pipeline

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Tokenization
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Embedding
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RNN Processing
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Output Layer
Click on each step to explore how RNNs transform text into meaningful predictions
Prepared by Dr. Gorkem Kar