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Understanding NLP models
Regardless of the NLP task being performed or the NLP tool set being used, there are sev-
eral steps that they all have in common. In this section, we will present these steps. As you
go through the chapters and techniques presented in this topic, you will see these steps re-
peated with slight variations. Getting a good understanding of them now will ease the task
of learning the techniques.
The basic steps include:
• Identifying the task
• Selecting a model
• Building and training the model
• Verifying the model
• Using the model
We will discuss each of these tasks in the following sections.
