NaturalLanguageProcessing(NLP)isthesubfieldincomputationallinguisticsthatenablescomputerstounderstand,process,andanalyzetext.Thisbookcaterstotheunmetdemandforhands-ontrainingofNLPconceptsandprovidesexposuretoreal-worldapplicationsalongwithasolidtheoreticalgrounding.ThisbookstartsbyintroducingyoutothefieldofNLPanditsapplications,alongwiththemodernPythonlibrariesthatyou'llusetobuildyourNLP-poweredapps.Withthehelpofpracticalexamples,you’lllearnhowtobuildreasonablysophisticatedNLPapplications,andcovervariousmethodologiesandchallengesindeployingNLPapplicationsintherealworld.You'llcoverkeyNLPtaskssuchastextclassification,semanticembedding,sentimentanalysis,machinetranslation,anddevelopingachatbotusingmachinelearninganddeeplearningtechniques.Thebookwillalsohelpyoudiscoverhowmachinelearningtechniquesplayavitalroleinmakingyourlinguisticappssmart.Everychapterisaccompaniedbyexamplesofreal-worldapplicationstohelpyoubuildimpressiveNLPapplicationsofyourown.BytheendofthisNLPbook,you’llbeabletoworkwithlanguagedata,usemachinelearningtoidentifypatternsintext,andgetacquaintedwiththeadvancementsinNLP.