Keras preprocessing

The second most important module of Keras is keras.preprocessing. You will see how to use the most important modules and functions to prepare raw data to the correct input shape. Keras provides functionalities that substitute the dictionary approach you learned before.

You will use the module keras.preprocessing.text.Tokenizer to create a dictionary of words using the method .fit_on_texts() and change the texts into numerical ids representing the index of each word on the dictionary using the method .texts_to_sequences().

Then, use the function .pad_sequences() from keras.preprocessing.sequence to make all the sequences have the same size (necessary for the model) by adding zeros on the small texts and cutting the big ones.

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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for Language Modeling with Keras

Exercise instructions

Import Tokenizer and pad_sequences from relevant modules.
Fit the tokenizer object on the sample data stored in texts.
Transform the texts into sequences of numerical indexes using the method .texts_to_sequences().
Fix the size of the texts by padding them.

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# Import relevant classes/functions
from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.text import ____
from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.sequence import ____

# Build the dictionary of indexes
tokenizer = Tokenizer()
tokenizer.fit_on_texts(____)

# Change texts into sequence of indexes
texts_numeric = tokenizer.____(texts)
print("Number of words in the sample texts: ({0}, {1})".format(len(texts_numeric[0]), len(texts_numeric[1])))

# Pad the sequences
texts_pad = ____(texts_numeric, 60)
print("Now the texts have fixed length: 60. Let's see the first one: \n{0}".format(texts_pad[0]))

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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for Language Modeling with Keras

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In this chapter, you will learn the foundations of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). Starting with some prerequisites, continuing to understanding how information flows through the network and finally seeing how to implement such models with Keras in the sentiment classification task.

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