Applied Natural Language Processing with Python: Implementing Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms for Natural Language Processing

© Taweh Beysolow II 2018

Taweh Beysolow IIApplied Natural Language Processing with Python https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3733-5_1

1. What Is Natural Language Processing?

Taweh Beysolow II¹ 

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San Francisco, California, USA

 

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 ...