12.8 Machine Learning and Deep Learning Natural Language Applications

There are many natural language applications that require machine learning and deep learning techniques. We’ll discuss some of the following in our machine learning and deep learning chapters:

  • Answering natural language questions—For example, our publisher Pearson Education, has a partnership with IBM Watson that uses Watson as a virtual tutor. Students ask Watson natural language questions and get answers.

  • Summarizing documents—analyzing documents and producing short summaries (also called abstracts) that can, for example, be included with search results and can help you decide what to read.

  • Speech synthesis (speech-to-text) and speech recognition (text-to-speech)—We use ...

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