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How to Paraphrase Text using Python

As writers, we often seek out tools to help us become more efficient or productive. Tools such as Grammarly can help with language editing. Text generation tools can help to rapidly generate original contents by just giving the AI a few keyword ideas to work with.
Perhaps this could help end writer’s block? This is a debatable question that is best saved for a later time.

Paraphrasing content is also another great way to take existing content (either from your own or from others) and add your own spin to it. Wouldn’t it be great if we could paraphrase text automatically?

In this article, you will learn how to paraphrase text for FREE in Python using the PARROT library. Particularly, under the hood PARROT’s paraphrasing technology is based on the T5 algorithm (an acronym for Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer) that was originally developed by Google (for more information refer to the T5 resource at Papers with Code). At a high-level, text generation is niche area of the exciting area of natural language processing (NLP), which is generally referred to as artificial intelligence or AI when explained to the general audience.

It should be noted that an accompanying YouTube video (How to paraphrase text in Python using the PARROT library (Ft. Ken Jee)) to this article is shown below on my YouTube channel (Data Professor).

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