Real-World Natural Language Processing

Training computers to interpret and generate speech and text is a monumental challenge, and the payoff for reducing labor and improving human/computer interaction is huge! The field of Natural language processing (NLP) is advancing rapidly, with countless new tools and practices. This unique book offers an innovative collection of NLP techniques with applications in machine translation, voice assitants, text generation and more. "Real-world natural language processing" shows you how to build the practical NLP applications that are transforming the way humans and computers work together. Guided by clear explanations of each core NLP topic, you'll create many interesting applications including a sentiment analyzer and a chatbot. Along the way, you'll use Python and open source libraries like AllenNLP and HuggingFace Transformers to speed up your development process.