Hey Siri, how do I learn Natural Language Processing?
🗣 I found three books for your question.
Natural Language Processing with Transformers
by Lewis Tunstall
In 2017 we saw the world change with the transformer paper.
Then Hugging Face made them accessible.
Why not learn from the creators how to use pre-trained NLP?!
(Get the one in color)
Natural Language Processing With PyTorch
by Delip Rao
This book starts with the fundamentals in Pytorch, to get everyone caught up.
Then we learn about basic NLP concepts like embeddings using classic tools like NLTK and @spacy.
Speech and Language Processing
by Daniel Jurafsky
Want to get serious?
This is one of the academic classics.
• From Regex to N-Grams • From speech synthesis to machine translation
This is where you learn the theory for computer linguistics.
Get the classic Speech and Language Processing
Summary
Natural Language Processing is a lot of fun:
- Natural Language Processing with Transformers
- Natural Language Processing With PyTorch
- Speech and Language Processing
Learn the fundamentals with these books