Transformers to Create Chatbots

Named-Entity Recognition you own this product

This project is part of the liveProject series Using Hugging Face Transformers to Create Chatbots
prerequisites
intermediate Python • basics of Jupyter Notebook and NLP
skills learned
use a transformer to create a named-entity recognition tool • build a chatbot using Hugging Face library to extract entities from user messages like localizations and people
Giuliano Bertoti
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · BEGINNER
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In this liveProject you’ll develop a chatbot that can extract entities from user messages using the Hugging Face NLP library. Entity extraction pulls relevant data from chunks of text. Your challenges will include building a Named Entity Recognition task with the BERT transformer, and fine-tuning it to a medical context. You’ll then integrate your tasks into a chatbot.
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Giuliano Bertoti
Giuliano Bertoti holds a Master of Science in Electronic Engineering and Computing from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology in Brazil. He has been a professor of Software Engineering and other computer science disciplines for 14 years and has developed several projects in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

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This liveProject is for intermediate Python programmers with some experience in natural language processing. To begin this liveProject you will need to be familiar with:

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  • Basics of natural language processing

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In this liveProject, you’ll learn to use the powerful Hugging Face Transformers library to create chatbots using the Named Entity Recognition (NER) natural Language Processing (NLP) task.

  • Build a NER NLP pipeline with a BERT transformer
  • Create NER NLP pipeline fine-tuned to a medication context
  • Integrate NER pipeline into a chatbot
  • Integrate medication NER pipeline into a chatbot

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