Natural Language Processing with Python : Hands-On Labs to Apply Deep Learning Architectures to NLP Applications

Intelligent digital assistants in form of voice transcription machine translationconversational agents and sentiment analysis are ubiquitously applied across variousdomains to facilitate human-computer interactions. Chatbots are becoming an integratedpart of any website; while virtual assistants are gaining more popularity in homes and officespaces. Consequently given numerous existing resources that contain these topics under thenotion of natural language processing (NLP) a contribution that covers a comprehensiveguide to the fundamentals and the state-of-the-art and on top of that includes practicalexamples with most popular frameworks and tool kits is a rare find.The leading authors reputation in ML needs no further explanation. With both equippedwith academic education in world-class universities and many years of leadership in MLdevelopment Rajesh and Rajalingappas qualification to lead the authorship of this book isconfirmed. I have come to know them not only as knowledgeable individuals but also aspassionate educators who convey the most sophisticated concepts in the simplest words.Rajas passion to help start-ups get off the ground and to offer his expertise to youngcompanies with an open heart is admirable. Im sure that even as readers of this bookyou can approach him for questions and be sure of a convincing response.