Natural Language Processing in Action, 2nd edition

Published by Manning Publications (February 20, 2025) © 2025

  • Hobson Lane
  • Maria Dyshel
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Table of contents

table of contents

PART 1: WORDY MACHINES (VECTOR MODELS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE)

PART 2: DEEPER LEARNING (NEURAL NETWORKS)

5 BABY STEPS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS (PERCEPTRONS AND BACKPROPAGATION)

6 REASONING WITH WORD VECTORS (WORD2VEC)

7 GETTING WORDS IN ORDER WITH CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS (CNNS)

8 LOOPY (RECURRENT) NEURAL NETWORKS (RNNS)

9 IMPROVING RETENTION WITH LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY NETWORKS (LSTMS)

10 SEQUENCE TO SEQUENCE MODELS AND ATTENTION (GENERATIVE MODELS)

PART 3: GETTING REAL (REAL WORLD NLP CHALLENGES)

11 INFORMATION EXTRACTION (NAMED ENTITY EXTRACTION AND QUESTION ANSWERING)

12 GETTING CHATTY (DIALOG ENGINES)

13 SCALING UP (OPTIMIZATION, PARALLELIZATION AND BATCH POCESSING)

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A: YOUR NLP TOOLS

APPENDIX B: PLAYFUL PYTHON AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

APPENDIX C: VECTORS AND MATRICES (BASIC LINEAR ALGEBRA)

APPENDIX D: MACHINE LEARNING

APPENDIX E: AWS GPU

APPENDIX F: LOCALITY SENSITIVE HASHING

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