Natural Language Processing in Action is your guide to building machines that can read and interpret human language. In it, you'll use readily available Python packages to capture the meaning in text and react accordingly. The book expands traditional NLP approaches to include neural networks, modern deep learning algorithms, and generative techniques as you tackle real-world problems like extracting dates and names, composing text, and answering free-form questions.

About the Technology

Recent advances in deep learning empower applications to understand text and speech with extreme accuracy. The result? Chatbots that can imitate real people, meaningful resume-to-job matches, superb predictive search, and automatically generated document summaries - all at a low cost. New techniques, along with accessible tools like Keras and TensorFlow, make professional-quality NLP easier than ever before.

What's inside:

• Some sentences in this book were written by NLP! Can you guess which ones?
• Working with Keras, TensorFlow, gensim, and scikit-learn.
• Rule-based and data-based NLP.
• Scalable pipelines.

Requirements

This book requires a basic understanding of deep learning and intermediate Python skills.

Hobson Lane, Cole Howard, and Hannes Max Hapke are experienced NLP engineers who use these techniques in production for profit and fun: contributing to social-benefit projects like smart guides for people with blindness and cognitive assistance for those with developmental challenges or suffering from information overload (don't we all?).

"Provides a great overview of current NLP tools in Python. I’ll definitely be keeping this book on hand for my own NLP work. Highly recommended!" (Tony Mullen, Northeastern University - Seattle)

"An intuitive guide to get you started with NLP. The book is full of programming examples that help you learn in a very pragmatic way." (Tommaso Teofili, Adobe Systems)

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