Deep learning and machine learning continues to proliferate throughout various industries, and has revolutionized the topic that I wish to discuss in this book: natural language processing (NLP). NLP is a subfield of computer science that is focused on allowing computers to understand language in a “natural” way, as humans do. Typically, this would refer to tasks such as understanding the sentiment of text, speech recognition, and generating responses to questions.
NLP has become a rapidly evolving field, and one whose applications ...
