This review examines the development of abstractive NLP-based text summarization approaches and compares them to existing techniques for extractive summarization. A brief history of text summarization from the 1950s to the introduction of pre-trained language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer (BERT) and Generative Pre-training Transformers (GPT) are presented. In total, 60 studies were identified in PubMed and Web of Science, of which 29 were excluded and 24 were read and evaluated for eligibility, resulting in the use of seven studies for further analysis. This chapter also includes a section with examples including an example of a comparison between GPT-3 and state-of-the-art GPT-4 solutions in scientific text summarisation. Natural language processing has not yet reached its full potential in the generation of brief textual summaries. As there are acknowledged concerns that must be addressed, we can expect gradual introduction of such models in practise.

The revolution of natural language processing via large language models has motivated its use in multidisciplinary areas that include social sciences and humanities and more specifically, comparative religion. Sentiment analysis provides a mechanism to study the emotions expressed in text. Recently, sentiment analysis has been used to study and compare translations of the Bhagavad Gita, which is a fundamental and sacred Hindu text. In this study, we use sentiment analysis for studying selected chapters of the Bible. These chapters are known as the Sermon on the Mount. We utilize a pre-trained language model for sentiment analysis by reviewing five translations of the Sermon on the Mount, which include the King James version, the New International Version, the New Revised Standard Version, the Lamsa Version, and the Basic English Version. We provide a chapter-by-chapter and verse-by-verse comparison using sentiment and semantic analysis and review the major sentiments expressed. Our results highlight the varying sentiments across the chapters and verses. We found that the vocabulary of the respective translations is significantly different. We detected different levels of humour, optimism, and empathy in the respective chapters that were used by Jesus to deliver his message.

Here's a new title that is a "must have" for any data scientist who uses the R language. It's a wonderful learning resource for tree-based techniques in statistical learning, one that's become my go-to text when I find the need to do a deep dive into various ML topic areas for my work. The methods discussed represent the cornerstone for using tabular data sets for making predictions using decision trees, ensemble methods like random forest, and of course the industry's darling gradient boosting machines (GBM). Algorithms like XGBoost are king of the hill for solving problems involving tabular data. A number of timely and somewhat high-profile benchmarks show that this class of algorithm beats deep learning algorithms for many problem domains.

In Quebec City, Canada, Andriy Burkov works as a machine learning specialist. He earned his doctorate in artificial intelligence eleven years ago, and for the past eight years, he has been in charge of a group of machine learning engineers at Gartner. The study of natural language is his area of expertise. His team uses shallow learning and deep learning techniques to develop cutting-edge multilingual text extraction and normalization systems for production. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Yearning is an excellent textbook for practitioners. It is similar to "The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book" in its comprehensive coverage of machine learning and its application to AI but is written more in a comment-to style. The book is also written in a logical order that closely mimics the typical process that a data scientist or machine learning engineer would follow when working on an end-to-end machine learning project, along with discussing key considerations and trade-offs. The book has 4.3 ratings with over 40 reviews on Goodreads.com.

Even though deep learning seems to be all that people in the research community is talking about, most real-world problems are still being solved by classical machine learning algorithms including k-nearest neighbor and XGBoost. In this chapter, we will cover fundamentals that are essential for understanding machine learning algorithms, as well as non-deep learning algorithms that you might find useful in both your day-to-day jobs and interviews.

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Independent component analysis (ICA) is a statistical method for transforming an observable multi-dimensional random vector into components that are as statistically independent as possible from each other. Usually the ICA framework assumes a model according to which the observations are generated (such as a linear transformation with additive noise). ICA over finite fields is a special case of ICA in which both the observations and the independent components are over a finite alphabet. In this thesis we consider a formulation of the finite-field case in which an observation vector is decomposed to its independent components (as much as possible) with no prior assumption on the way it was generated. This generalization is also known as Barlow's minimal redundancy representation and is considered an open problem. We propose several theorems and show that this hard problem can be accurately solved with a branch and bound search tree algorithm, or tightly approximated with a series of linear problems. Moreover, we show that there exists a simple transformation (namely, order permutation) which provides a greedy yet very effective approximation of the optimal solution. We further show that while not every random vector can be efficiently decomposed into independent components, the vast majority of vectors do decompose very well (that is, within a small constant cost), as the dimension increases. In addition, we show that we may practically achieve this favorable constant cost with a complexity that is asymptotically linear in the alphabet size. Our contribution provides the first efficient set of solutions to Barlow's problem with theoretical and computational guarantees. Finally, we demonstrate our suggested framework in multiple source coding applications.

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