Quest 1 β’ Lesson 5
π¬ Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps computers understand, interpret, and generate human language. It powers chatbots, sentiment analysis, translation, and more.
"NLP bridges the gap between human communication and machine understanding. It's one of the most exciting areas of AI."
π§ NLP Pipeline (Simplified)
- Tokenization β split text into words or subβwords.
- Embeddings β convert tokens to numerical vectors (e.g., Word2Vec, GloVe).
- Sequence model β process sequences (RNN, LSTM, Transformer).
- Output β classification (sentiment, topic) or generation.
π Live Demo: Sentiment Analysis
Enter any text (e.g., movie review, product feedback). The model (LSTM trained on IMDB reviews) predicts positive or negative sentiment.
Click "Analyse" to see sentiment.
π How it works (LSTM with TensorFlow.js)
// Model is a pre-trained LSTM (embedding + LSTM + dense) // It was trained on 50,000 IMDB movie reviews. // Preprocessing: tokenize, pad sequences to length 100 const model = await tf.loadLayersModel(modelUrl); const inputSequence = tokenize(text, vocab); const padded = padSequences([inputSequence], 100); const prediction = model.predict(padded); // output: probability of positive (0..1)
π NLP in the Wild
- π¬ Chatbots and virtual assistants (Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT)
- π Sentiment analysis (brand monitoring, social media)
- π Machine translation (Google Translate)
- π Text summarisation (news, research)
- π Information retrieval (search engines)
β¨ Challenge: Test Different Texts
Try these examples and observe the output:
- "I absolutely loved this product! It exceeded all expectations." (positive)
- "Terrible service, very disappointing." (negative)
- "The food was okay, nothing special." (neutral / mixed)
π‘ The model may not always be perfect β it's trained on movie reviews, so domainβspecific language may affect accuracy.
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