🤗 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
Table of Contents
🗣️ 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
- 📦 Tokenization: Split text into individual words or tokens
- 🧹 Cleaning: Remove punctuation, convert to lowercase
- 🚫 Stopword Removal: Remove common words like “the”, “and”, “is”
- 🧽 Normalization: Lemmatization and Stemming to reduce words to base forms
Example: Processing Urdu 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:
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:
Concept | Meaning | Example |
---|---|---|
Tokenization | Break text into individual pieces (words, sentences, or characters) | “آپ کا نام کیا ہے؟” → [“آپ”, “کا”, “نام”, “کیا”, “ہے”] |
Stopwords | Common words that are often removed as they don’t carry much meaning | English: “the”, “and”, “is” Urdu: “ہے”, “کا”, “اور” |
Lemmatization | Reduce words to their dictionary/base form | “چلتے”, “چلا”, “چلیں” → “چلنا” |
Stemming | Roughly chop word to its root (faster but less accurate) | “لڑکیاں”, “لڑکی” → “لڑک” |
N-grams | Sequences of N consecutive words | Bigrams: “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.
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.
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.
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:
- N-grams: “میں بازار” → next word likely “میں” or “گیا”
- Neural Networks: Better context understanding
- 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
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)
# 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
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
Task | Description | Pipeline Name |
---|---|---|
Sentiment Analysis | Detect positive/negative emotions | sentiment-analysis |
Text Generation | Generate human-like text | text-generation |
Translation | Translate between languages | translation |
Question Answering | Answer questions from context | question-answering |
Summarization | Create short summaries | summarization |
Named Entity Recognition | Extract names, places, organizations | ner |
Fill-in-the-blank | Complete sentences with masked words | fill-mask |
💻 Practical Examples
🎥 Watch: Sentiment Analysis in Python
Learn practical sentiment analysis implementation step by step:
🌍 Machine Translation
# 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
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
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
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
# 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
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
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
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
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
Library | Best For | Key Features |
---|---|---|
Hugging Face Transformers | State-of-the-art models | BERT, GPT, T5, easy pipelines |
spaCy | Production NLP | Fast, industrial-strength processing |
NLTK | Learning & research | Educational tools, extensive documentation |
OpenAI API | GPT-3/4 access | Most advanced language models |
Gensim | Topic modeling | Word2Vec, 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
- 🌐 Hugging Face Hub: https://huggingface.co/
- 📚 Transformers Documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers
- 🎓 NLP Course: https://huggingface.co/course/
- 🇵🇰 Urdu NLP Resources: Search “Urdu”, “Pakistan” on Hugging Face
- 💬 Community: Join NLP Discord servers and forums
🎉 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! 🚀
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🎓 NLP Researcher & AI Educator
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Essential NLP Terms & Concepts
Term | Description | Example |
---|---|---|
Tokenization | Breaking text into individual words, phrases, or symbols | "Hello world" → ["Hello", "world"] |
Corpus | Large collection of texts used for analysis | Wikipedia articles, news dataset |
Bag of Words | Text representation based on word frequency, ignoring order | {"hello": 1, "world": 1} |
TF-IDF | Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency weighting | Rare words get higher weights |
Word Embeddings | Dense vector representations of words | Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText |
Named Entity Recognition | Identifying and classifying named entities in text | "Imran Khan" → PERSON |
Sentiment Analysis | Determining emotional tone of text | "Great product!" → Positive |
Language Model | Model that predicts probability of word sequences | GPT, BERT, T5 |
Transformer | Neural network architecture using self-attention | BERT, GPT, RoBERTa |
Attention Mechanism | Focusing on relevant parts of input sequence | Highlighting important words |
Fine-tuning | Adapting pre-trained model to specific task | BERT → Sentiment classifier |
Pipeline | End-to-end processing workflow | pipeline("sentiment-analysis") |
Stopwords | Common words with little semantic meaning | "the", "and", "is" in English |
Lemmatization | Reducing words to their dictionary form | "running" → "run" |
Stemming | Reducing words to their root form | "running" → "runn" |
N-gram | Contiguous sequence of n items from text | Bigram: "machine learning" |
BERT | Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers | bert-base-uncased |
GPT | Generative Pre-trained Transformer | GPT-2, GPT-3, GPT-4 |
Hugging Face | Popular platform for NLP models and datasets | transformers library |
Text Classification | Assigning predefined categories to text | Spam detection, topic classification |
Machine Translation | Automatic translation between languages | English → Urdu translation |
Question Answering | Automatically answering questions from text | Reading comprehension |
Text Summarization | Creating concise summaries of longer texts | News article → Key points |
Zero-shot Learning | Model performs tasks without specific training | GPT-3 doing new tasks |
Few-shot Learning | Learning from very few examples | 5-shot classification |