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🤗 NLP Mastery Guide: From Zero to Hero with Hugging Face

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the bridge between human language and computer understanding. Whether you want to build chatbots, analyze sentiment, translate languages, or create the next breakthrough in AI, this comprehensive guide will take you from absolute beginner to advanced practitioner.

In this Codanics masterclass, we’ll explore everything from basic text processing to state-of-the-art transformer models using Hugging Face, with special focus on Urdu and Pakistani applications.

🤗🧠📚

Master the Art of Teaching Machines to Understand Human Language

🗣️ What is NLP?

🎯 Goal of NLP

Understand how machines read, understand, and generate human language. NLP enables computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on the interaction between computers and humans through natural language.

🎥 Watch: NLP Introduction in Urdu/Hindi

Get a comprehensive introduction to Natural Language Processing in Urdu/Hindi by Dr. Aammar Tufail:

Core Capabilities of NLP:

  • 📖 Understand: Extract meaning from human text and speech
  • 🔄 Transform: Translate, summarize, and classify text
  • 💬 Generate: Create human-like responses and content
  • 🌉 Bridge: Connect human communication with machine understanding

Simple Definition: NLP = Computers + Language

It’s the technology that makes Siri understand your voice, Google Translate work, and chatbots respond intelligently!

✅ Why Learn NLP?

🚀

Real-World Impact

Build chatbots, search engines, recommendation systems, and virtual assistants that millions use daily.

💼

High Demand Career

AI jobs are booming! NLP engineers are among the highest-paid professionals in tech industry.

🇵🇰

Local Innovation

Create smart apps for Pakistani market: Urdu chatbots, local news summarizers, and social media analyzers.

🧠

Future-Ready Skill

As AI becomes ubiquitous, NLP skills will be essential across industries, from healthcare to finance.

💡 Opportunity in Pakistan

With growing internet penetration and digital transformation, there’s huge potential for Urdu NLP applications. Be a pioneer in bringing AI to local languages!

🌍 Where Do We See NLP?

NLP is everywhere around us! Here are common applications you interact with daily:

📧

Spam Detection

Gmail automatically filters spam emails using NLP to analyze content and sender patterns.

🔍

Search Engines

Google understands your search queries and finds relevant results even with typos or colloquial language.

🛒

Recommendations

E-commerce sites analyze product reviews and descriptions to suggest items you might like.

🎤

Voice Assistants

Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant convert speech to text, understand intent, and respond appropriately.

📱

Social Media

Platforms analyze posts for sentiment, detect hate speech, and moderate content automatically.

🏥

Healthcare

Analyze medical records, extract key information, and assist in diagnosis and treatment planning.

📝 NLP Starts with Text Processing

Before machines can understand text, we need to process and clean it. Here’s the typical pipeline:

🔧 Text Processing Pipeline

  1. 📦 Tokenization: Split text into individual words or tokens
  2. 🧹 Cleaning: Remove punctuation, convert to lowercase
  3. 🚫 Stopword Removal: Remove common words like “the”, “and”, “is”
  4. 🧽 Normalization: Lemmatization and Stemming to reduce words to base forms

Example: Processing Urdu Text

# Original Text
text = “آپ کا نام کیا ہے؟ میں آپ کی مدد کر سکتا ہوں۔”

# After Tokenization
tokens = [“آپ”, “کا”, “نام”, “کیا”, “ہے”, “میں”, “آپ”, “کی”, “مدد”, “کر”, “سکتا”, “ہوں”]

# After Stopword Removal (removing common Urdu words)
filtered = [“نام”, “کیا”, “مدد”, “کر”, “سکتا”]

# After Lemmatization (reducing to root forms)
lemmatized = [“نام”, “کیا”, “مدد”, “کرنا”, “سکنا”]

English Example:

# Original Text
text = “I am learning NLP and it’s fascinating!”

# Tokenization
tokens = [“I”, “am”, “learning”, “NLP”, “and”, “it’s”, “fascinating”, “!”]

# Lowercasing & Punctuation Removal
cleaned = [“i”, “am”, “learning”, “nlp”, “and”, “its”, “fascinating”]

# Stopword Removal
filtered = [“learning”, “nlp”, “fascinating”]

# Lemmatization
lemmatized = [“learn”, “nlp”, “fascinating”]

🔍 Important Basic Concepts

🎥 Watch: NLP Guide and Concepts

Dive deeper into NLP concepts and fundamentals:

ConceptMeaningExample
TokenizationBreak text into individual pieces (words, sentences, or characters)“آپ کا نام کیا ہے؟” → [“آپ”, “کا”, “نام”, “کیا”, “ہے”]
StopwordsCommon words that are often removed as they don’t carry much meaningEnglish: “the”, “and”, “is”
Urdu: “ہے”, “کا”, “اور”
LemmatizationReduce words to their dictionary/base form“چلتے”, “چلا”, “چلیں” → “چلنا”
StemmingRoughly chop word to its root (faster but less accurate)“لڑکیاں”, “لڑکی” → “لڑک”
N-gramsSequences of N consecutive wordsBigrams: “machine learning”, “natural language”

📚 Advanced NLP Terms:

Text Representation

  • Corpus: Large collection of text documents (جیسے 10 ہزار اردو مضامین کا مجموعہ)
  • Bag of Words (BoW): Represent text as word counts, ignoring order
  • TF-IDF: Weight words by importance – rare words get higher weights

Modern Concepts

  • Word Embeddings: Convert words to vectors that capture meaning
  • Attention Mechanism: Focus on important parts of input
  • Transformer Models: State-of-the-art architecture (BERT, GPT)

🧠 Common NLP Tasks

🏷️

Text Classification

Categorize text into predefined classes

Example: Spam/Not Spam, Positive/Negative

❤️

Sentiment Analysis

Determine emotional tone of text

Example: “یہ فون اچھا ہے” → Positive

📄

Text Summarization

Create shorter version while keeping main points

Example: News article → Key highlights

🌐

Machine Translation

Convert text from one language to another

Example: English ↔ Urdu translation

Question Answering

Automatically answer questions based on context

Example: Chatbots, virtual assistants

🏷️

Named Entity Recognition

Identify and classify named entities in text

Example: “عمران خان لاہور میں” → Person, Location

💬

Text Generation

Generate human-like text

Example: Story writing, content creation

🎤

Speech Processing

Convert between speech and text

Example: Voice assistants, transcription

🔡 Traditional NLP Methods

Before deep learning, NLP relied on statistical and rule-based approaches:

📊 Bag of Words (BoW)

Represent text as word frequency counts, ignoring word order.

# Example
text1 = “I love machine learning”
text2 = “Machine learning is amazing”

# BoW representation
vocabulary = [“I”, “love”, “machine”, “learning”, “is”, “amazing”]
text1_bow = [1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0] # counts for each word
text2_bow = [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1]

📈 TF-IDF (Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency)

Weight words by importance – common words get lower weights, rare but meaningful words get higher weights.

# Formula
TF-IDF = (Term Frequency) × (Inverse Document Frequency)

# Example: Word “AI” appears in 2 out of 100 documents
# It gets higher weight than “the” which appears in 95 documents

⚡ Pros and Cons

Pros: Simple, interpretable, fast

Cons: Ignores word order, no semantic understanding, sparse representations

🚀 Modern NLP with Transformers

The revolution in NLP came with:

🧠 Word Embeddings

Convert words to dense vectors that capture semantic meaning.

# Famous example from Word2Vec
king – man + woman ≈ queen

# Words with similar meanings have similar vectors
“happy” and “joyful” vectors are close in space

Popular embedding models:

  • Word2Vec: Learns word relationships from context
  • GloVe: Global vectors for word representation
  • FastText: Handles out-of-vocabulary words

🔮 Language Models

Models that predict the next word in a sequence.

Evolution:

  1. N-grams: “میں بازار” → next word likely “میں” or “گیا”
  2. Neural Networks: Better context understanding
  3. Transformers: Revolutionary architecture

⚡ Transformer Revolution

Transformers can:

  • Process entire sentences simultaneously (not word by word)
  • Learn long-range dependencies
  • Use attention mechanism to focus on relevant parts
  • Transfer learning – pre-train once, fine-tune for many tasks

Famous Transformer Models:

  • BERT: Bidirectional understanding
  • GPT series: Generative pre-training
  • T5: Text-to-text transfer transformer
  • RoBERTa: Robustly optimized BERT

🤗 Hugging Face Deep Dive

📘 What is Hugging Face?

  • 🏢 Company: Leading platform for NLP and AI
  • 📚 Library: `transformers` – most popular NLP library
  • 🌐 Hub: Thousands of pre-trained models and datasets
  • 🤝 Community: Open source and collaborative

🎥 Watch: HuggingFace Integration with Python

Learn how to integrate HuggingFace with Python for various NLP tasks:

🧠 Why Use Hugging Face?

✅ Benefits:

  • Access state-of-the-art models (BERT, GPT, RoBERTa) with just 2 lines of code
  • 1000+ public datasets for training and testing
  • Easy pipelines for common NLP tasks
  • Fine-tune models on your own data
  • Urdu and multilingual support 🇵🇰

🎥 Watch: Transformers Library Tutorial

Master the Transformers library to use Hugging Face models locally:

🛠️ Installation & Setup

# Create conda environment
conda create -n hf_env python=3.10 -y
conda activate hf_env

# Install core packages
pip install transformers datasets torch
pip install tensorflow # Optional, for TensorFlow models
pip install ipykernel # For Jupyter notebooks

# Verify installation
python -c “from transformers import pipeline; print(‘✅ Installation successful!’)”

🚀 Quick Start Examples

💭 Sentiment Analysis (English)

from transformers import pipeline

# Create sentiment analyzer
classifier = pipeline(“sentiment-analysis”)

# Analyze sentiment
result = classifier(“Pakistan’s cricket team is amazing!”)
print(result)
# Output: [{‘label’: ‘POSITIVE’, ‘score’: 0.999}]

# Multiple sentences
texts = [
“I love this product!”,
“This is terrible.”,
“It’s okay, nothing special.”
]
results = classifier(texts)
for text, result in zip(texts, results):
print(f”Text: {text}”)
print(f”Sentiment: {result[‘label’]} (confidence: {result[‘score’]:.3f})”)
print(“-” * 50)

🌍 Urdu Sentiment Analysis

# Using Urdu-specific model
classifier = pipeline(
“text-classification”,
model=”asafaya/bert-base-urdu”
)

# Analyze Urdu text
urdu_texts = [
“پاکستان ایک خوبصورت ملک ہے۔”,
“یہ فلم بہت برا تھا۔”,
“کھانا ٹھیک ٹھاک ہے۔”
]

for text in urdu_texts:
result = classifier(text)
print(f”Text: {text}”)
print(f”Result: {result}”)
print(“-” * 50)

🧩 Supported Tasks

TaskDescriptionPipeline Name
Sentiment AnalysisDetect positive/negative emotionssentiment-analysis
Text GenerationGenerate human-like texttext-generation
TranslationTranslate between languagestranslation
Question AnsweringAnswer questions from contextquestion-answering
SummarizationCreate short summariessummarization
Named Entity RecognitionExtract names, places, organizationsner
Fill-in-the-blankComplete sentences with masked wordsfill-mask

💻 Practical Examples

🎥 Watch: Sentiment Analysis in Python

Learn practical sentiment analysis implementation step by step:

🌍 Machine Translation

from transformers import pipeline

# English to Urdu translation
translator = pipeline(
“translation”,
model=”Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-ur”
)

english_texts = [
“Hello, how are you?”,
“Pakistan is a beautiful country.”,
“I am learning machine learning.”
]

for text in english_texts:
result = translator(text)
print(f”English: {text}”)
print(f”Urdu: {result[0][‘translation_text’]}”)
print(“-” * 50)

📝 Text Summarization

# Text summarization
summarizer = pipeline(“summarization”)

long_text = “””
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming various industries around the world.
From healthcare to finance, from transportation to entertainment, AI is revolutionizing
how we work and live. Machine learning, a subset of AI, enables computers to learn
and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed. Natural Language
Processing (NLP) is another crucial component that allows machines to understand,
interpret, and generate human language. Deep learning, powered by neural networks,
has achieved remarkable breakthroughs in image recognition, speech processing, and
language understanding. As AI continues to evolve, it promises to solve complex
problems and create new opportunities across multiple sectors.
“””

summary = summarizer(long_text, max_length=50, min_length=25)
print(“Original text length:”, len(long_text.split()))
print(“Summary length:”, len(summary[0][‘summary_text’].split()))
print(“\nSummary:”)
print(summary[0][‘summary_text’])

❓ Question Answering

# Question answering
qa_pipeline = pipeline(“question-answering”)

context = “””
Pakistan is a country in South Asia. It is the world’s sixth-most populous country
with a population exceeding 225 million. Islamabad is the capital city, while Karachi
is the largest city and financial center. The country was established in 1947 as a
homeland for Muslims. Pakistan has four provinces: Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
and Balochistan.
“””

questions = [
“What is the capital of Pakistan?”,
“When was Pakistan established?”,
“How many provinces does Pakistan have?”,
“Which is the largest city of Pakistan?”
]

for question in questions:
answer = qa_pipeline(question=question, context=context)
print(f”Question: {question}”)
print(f”Answer: {answer[‘answer’]} (confidence: {answer[‘score’]:.3f})”)
print(“-” * 50)

🏷️ Named Entity Recognition

# Named Entity Recognition
ner = pipeline(“ner”, aggregation_strategy=”simple”)

text = “Imran Khan was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He played cricket for Pakistan national team.”

entities = ner(text)
print(“Text:”, text)
print(“\nEntities found:”)
for entity in entities:
print(f”- {entity[‘word’]}: {entity[‘entity_group’]} (confidence: {entity[‘score’]:.3f})”)

# Expected output:
# – Imran Khan: PER (Person)
# – Lahore: LOC (Location)
# – Pakistan: LOC (Location)

🇵🇰 Urdu NLP Applications

📚 Working with Urdu Datasets

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load Urdu sentiment dataset
dataset = load_dataset(“urduhack/urdu_sentiment_corpus”)

print(“Dataset info:”)
print(f”Train samples: {len(dataset[‘train’])}”)
print(f”Test samples: {len(dataset[‘test’])}”)

# Look at sample data
sample = dataset[“train”][0]
print(f”\nSample text: {sample[‘text’]}”)
print(f”Sentiment: {sample[‘label’]}”)

# Dataset statistics
labels = dataset[“train”][“label”]
from collections import Counter
label_counts = Counter(labels)
print(f”\nLabel distribution: {label_counts}”)

💬 Urdu Text Generation

# Urdu text generation
generator = pipeline(
“text-generation”,
model=”flax-community/gpt2-base-urdu”
)

urdu_prompts = [
“پاکستان میں”,
“اردو زبان”,
“تعلیم کی اہمیت”
]

for prompt in urdu_prompts:
result = generator(
prompt,
max_length=30,
num_return_sequences=1,
pad_token_id=50256
)
print(f”Prompt: {prompt}”)
print(f”Generated: {result[0][‘generated_text’]}”)
print(“-” * 50)

🧠 Pakistani Use Cases

📰

News Summarization

Summarize Urdu news articles for quick consumption

📱

Social Media Analysis

Analyze sentiment on Pakistani social media platforms

🤖

Customer Service Bots

Build chatbots for local businesses in Urdu

🔁

Translation Services

English-Urdu translation for websites and apps

🏛️

Document Processing

Process government documents and legal texts

🎓

Educational Tools

Create learning assistants for Urdu medium students

🌟 Opportunity: Urdu is spoken by 230+ million people globally, but there are relatively few high-quality NLP tools. This presents a huge opportunity for Pakistani developers to create impactful solutions!

🛠️ Hands-On Mini Project: Sentiment Analyzer

Let’s build a complete sentiment analysis application that works with both English and Urdu text!

🎯 Project Goal

Input: Product reviews or social media posts

Output: Positive, Neutral, or Negative sentiment

Tools: Python + Hugging Face Transformers

📦 Complete Implementation

import pandas as pd
from transformers import pipeline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from collections import Counter

class MultilingualSentimentAnalyzer:
def __init__(self):
# Initialize models for different languages
self.english_classifier = pipeline(“sentiment-analysis”)
self.urdu_classifier = pipeline(
“text-classification”,
model=”asafaya/bert-base-urdu”
)

def detect_language(self, text):
# Simple language detection based on character script
urdu_chars = sum(1 for char in text if ‘\u0600’ <= char <= '\u06FF') total_chars = len([c for c in text if c.isalpha()]) if total_chars == 0: return "unknown" urdu_ratio = urdu_chars / total_chars return "urdu" if urdu_ratio > 0.3 else “english”

def analyze_sentiment(self, text):
language = self.detect_language(text)

if language == “urdu”:
result = self.urdu_classifier(text)
else:
result = self.english_classifier(text)

return {
‘text’: text,
‘language’: language,
‘sentiment’: result[0][‘label’],
‘confidence’: result[0][‘score’]
}

def analyze_batch(self, texts):
results = []
for text in texts:
results.append(self.analyze_sentiment(text))
return results

def create_report(self, results):
# Create summary statistics
sentiments = [r[‘sentiment’] for r in results]
languages = [r[‘language’] for r in results]

sentiment_counts = Counter(sentiments)
language_counts = Counter(languages)

print(“📊 SENTIMENT ANALYSIS REPORT”)
print(“=” * 40)
print(f”Total texts analyzed: {len(results)}”)
print(f”\nLanguage distribution:”)
for lang, count in language_counts.items():
print(f” {lang.title()}: {count} ({count/len(results)*100:.1f}%)”)

print(f”\nSentiment distribution:”)
for sentiment, count in sentiment_counts.items():
print(f” {sentiment}: {count} ({count/len(results)*100:.1f}%)”)

return sentiment_counts, language_counts

# Usage example
analyzer = MultilingualSentimentAnalyzer()

# Test with mixed English and Urdu texts
sample_texts = [
“I love this product! It’s amazing!”,
“This is terrible quality.”,
“یہ بہت اچھا ہے”,
“برا کوالٹی ہے”,
“Pakistan is a beautiful country”,
“پاکستان میں بہترین کھانا ملتا ہے”,
“The service was okay, nothing special”,
“اوسط سروس تھی”
]

# Analyze all texts
results = analyzer.analyze_batch(sample_texts)

# Print detailed results
print(“🔍 DETAILED ANALYSIS”)
print(“=” * 50)
for result in results:
print(f”Text: {result[‘text’]}”)
print(f”Language: {result[‘language’]}”)
print(f”Sentiment: {result[‘sentiment’]} (confidence: {result[‘confidence’]:.3f})”)
print(“-” * 50)

# Generate report
sentiment_counts, language_counts = analyzer.create_report(results)

📈 Visualization Component

# Create visualizations
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.style.use(‘seaborn-v0_8’)

fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(15, 6))

# Sentiment distribution pie chart
sentiment_labels = list(sentiment_counts.keys())
sentiment_values = list(sentiment_counts.values())
colors = [‘#2E8B57’, ‘#DC143C’, ‘#FFD700′] # Green, Red, Gold

ax1.pie(sentiment_values, labels=sentiment_labels, autopct=’%1.1f%%’,
colors=colors, startangle=90)
ax1.set_title(‘Sentiment Distribution’, fontsize=14, fontweight=’bold’)

# Language distribution bar chart
language_labels = list(language_counts.keys())
language_values = list(language_counts.values())

bars = ax2.bar(language_labels, language_values, color=[‘#4A90E2’, ‘#7B68EE’])
ax2.set_title(‘Language Distribution’, fontsize=14, fontweight=’bold’)
ax2.set_ylabel(‘Number of Texts’)

# Add value labels on bars
for bar, value in zip(bars, language_values):
ax2.text(bar.get_x() + bar.get_width()/2, bar.get_height() + 0.1,
str(value), ha=’center’, va=’bottom’, fontweight=’bold’)

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

# Save results to CSV for further analysis
df = pd.DataFrame(results)
df.to_csv(‘sentiment_analysis_results.csv’, index=False)
print(“💾 Results saved to ‘sentiment_analysis_results.csv'”)

🚀 Advanced Features

# Advanced feature: Real-time analysis from file
def analyze_file(file_path):
“””Analyze sentiment from a text file”””
analyzer = MultilingualSentimentAnalyzer()

with open(file_path, ‘r’, encoding=’utf-8′) as file:
texts = [line.strip() for line in file if line.strip()]

print(f”📄 Analyzing {len(texts)} texts from {file_path}”)
results = analyzer.analyze_batch(texts)

# Generate comprehensive report
sentiment_counts, language_counts = analyzer.create_report(results)

# Calculate average confidence
avg_confidence = sum(r[‘confidence’] for r in results) / len(results)
print(f”\n📊 Average confidence: {avg_confidence:.3f}”)

# Find most confident predictions
most_confident = max(results, key=lambda x: x[‘confidence’])
least_confident = min(results, key=lambda x: x[‘confidence’])

print(f”\n🎯 Most confident prediction:”)
print(f” Text: {most_confident[‘text’][:50]}…”)
print(f” Sentiment: {most_confident[‘sentiment’]} ({most_confident[‘confidence’]:.3f})”)

print(f”\n❓ Least confident prediction:”)
print(f” Text: {least_confident[‘text’][:50]}…”)
print(f” Sentiment: {least_confident[‘sentiment’]} ({least_confident[‘confidence’]:.3f})”)

return results

# Example usage (uncomment to use with your own file)
# results = analyze_file(‘reviews.txt’)

🎉 Congratulations! You’ve built a complete multilingual sentiment analyzer! This project demonstrates:

  • ✅ Using pre-trained models from Hugging Face
  • ✅ Handling multiple languages
  • ✅ Batch processing and analysis
  • ✅ Data visualization
  • ✅ Exporting results for further use

🎓 Conclusion & Next Steps

🌟 What You’ve Learned

  • NLP Fundamentals: From tokenization to modern transformers
  • Hugging Face Mastery: Using pre-trained models and pipelines
  • Practical Applications: Sentiment analysis, translation, Q&A
  • Multilingual NLP: Working with Urdu and English
  • Real-world Project: Complete sentiment analyzer with visualization

📚 Popular NLP Libraries & Tools

LibraryBest ForKey Features
Hugging Face TransformersState-of-the-art modelsBERT, GPT, T5, easy pipelines
spaCyProduction NLPFast, industrial-strength processing
NLTKLearning & researchEducational tools, extensive documentation
OpenAI APIGPT-3/4 accessMost advanced language models
GensimTopic modelingWord2Vec, Doc2Vec, LDA

🚀 Your NLP Journey – Next Steps

👶

Beginner Level

Master text preprocessing, basic classification, and simple pipelines

🎯

Intermediate Level

Fine-tune models, build custom datasets, create web applications

🚀

Advanced Level

Research new architectures, optimize for production, contribute to open source

💼

Professional Level

Lead ML teams, architect NLP systems, solve complex business problems

💡 Final Tips for Success

  • Start Small: Begin with simple tasks like tokenization and cleaning
  • Practice Regularly: Work with different datasets and languages
  • Stay Updated: NLP evolves rapidly – follow latest research
  • Build Projects: Create portfolio projects showcasing your skills
  • Join Community: Participate in NLP forums and competitions
  • Focus on Applications: Always think about real-world use cases

🇵🇰 Special Opportunity for Pakistani Developers:

With 230+ million Urdu speakers worldwide and growing digital adoption in Pakistan, there’s enormous potential for Urdu NLP applications. Be a pioneer in bringing AI to local languages and solving problems unique to our region!

🔗 Useful Resources

🎉 Ready to Transform Text into Intelligence!

The future of human-computer interaction lies in natural language understanding.

Start building, keep learning, and make an impact! 🚀

👨‍💻 Author: Dr. Muhammad Aammar Tufail 🇵🇰

🎓 NLP Researcher & AI Educator

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Essential NLP Terms & Concepts

TermDescriptionExample
TokenizationBreaking text into individual words, phrases, or symbols"Hello world" → ["Hello", "world"]
CorpusLarge collection of texts used for analysisWikipedia articles, news dataset
Bag of WordsText representation based on word frequency, ignoring order{"hello": 1, "world": 1}
TF-IDFTerm Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency weightingRare words get higher weights
Word EmbeddingsDense vector representations of wordsWord2Vec, GloVe, FastText
Named Entity RecognitionIdentifying and classifying named entities in text"Imran Khan" → PERSON
Sentiment AnalysisDetermining emotional tone of text"Great product!" → Positive
Language ModelModel that predicts probability of word sequencesGPT, BERT, T5
TransformerNeural network architecture using self-attentionBERT, GPT, RoBERTa
Attention MechanismFocusing on relevant parts of input sequenceHighlighting important words
Fine-tuningAdapting pre-trained model to specific taskBERT → Sentiment classifier
PipelineEnd-to-end processing workflowpipeline("sentiment-analysis")
StopwordsCommon words with little semantic meaning"the", "and", "is" in English
LemmatizationReducing words to their dictionary form"running" → "run"
StemmingReducing words to their root form"running" → "runn"
N-gramContiguous sequence of n items from textBigram: "machine learning"
BERTBidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformersbert-base-uncased
GPTGenerative Pre-trained TransformerGPT-2, GPT-3, GPT-4
Hugging FacePopular platform for NLP models and datasetstransformers library
Text ClassificationAssigning predefined categories to textSpam detection, topic classification
Machine TranslationAutomatic translation between languagesEnglish → Urdu translation
Question AnsweringAutomatically answering questions from textReading comprehension
Text SummarizationCreating concise summaries of longer textsNews article → Key points
Zero-shot LearningModel performs tasks without specific trainingGPT-3 doing new tasks
Few-shot LearningLearning from very few examples5-shot classification




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