Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lane, Hobson.

Contributor:

Dyshel, Maria.

Series:

In Action Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural language processing (Computer science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (706 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Manning Publications Co. LLC, 2025.

Summary:

Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition introduces the foundational technologies and state-of-the-art tools you’ll need to write and publish NLP applications. You learn how to create custom models for search, translation, writing assistants, and more, without relying on big commercial foundation models. This fully updated second edition includes coverage of BERT, Hugging Face transformers, fine-tuning large language models, and more.

Contents:

Part 1 Wordy Machines: Vector Models of Natural Language

1. Machines that read and write: A natural language processing overview

2. Tokens of thought: Natural language words

3. Math with words: Term frequency-inverse document frequency vectors

4. Finding meaning in word counts: Semantic analysis

Part 2 Deeper Learning: Neural Networks

5. Word brain: Neural networks

6. Reasoning with word embeddings

7. Finding kernels of knowledge in text with CNNs

8. Reduce, reuse, and recycle your words: RNNs and LSTMs

Part 3 Getting Real: Real-World NLP Applications

9. Stackable deep learning: Transformers

10. Large language models in the real world

11. Information extraction and knowledge graphs

12. Getting chatty with dialog engines

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781638357339

1638357331

OCLC:

1495406192