Getting Started with Natural Language Processing is a hands-on guide to NLP with practical techniques you can put into action right away. By following the numerous Python-based examples and real-world case studies, you’ll apply NLP to search applications, extracting meaning from text, sentiment analysis, user profiling, and more. When you’re done, you’ll have a solid grounding in NLP that will serve as a foundation for further learning. Learn more about the book here: http://mng.bz/0Z6N

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2. Natural Language Processing is a set of data science techniques that
enable machines to make sense of human text and speech. Advances
in machine learning and deep learning have made NLP more efficient
and reliable than ever, leading to a huge number of new tools and
resources.

3. Get started!
Getting Started with Natural Language Processing gives you
everything you need to get started with NLP in a friendly,
understandable tutorial. Full of Python code and hands-on
projects, each chapter provides a concrete example with
practical techniques that you can put into practice right away.

4. If you’re a beginner to NLP and want to upgrade your applications
with functions and features like information extraction, user profiling,
and automatic topic labeling, this is the book for you.
When you’re done, you’ll have a solid grounding in NLP that will serve
as a foundation for further learning.

5. What people are saying
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Great content, tone,
presentation, figures,
and code. Pedagogical
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Every important detail
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6. About the author:
Ekaterina Kochmar is an Affiliated Lecturer and a Senior Research
Associate at the Natural Language and Information Processing
group of the Department of Computer Science and Technology,
University of Cambridge. She holds an MA degree in
Computational Linguistics, an MPhil in Advanced Computer
Science, and a PhD in Natural Language Processing.

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