Natural Language Processing
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This textbook presents an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Natural Language Processing (NLP), from basic concepts to core algorithms and key applications. Further, it contains seven step-by-step NLP workshops (total length: 14 hours) offering hands-on practice with essential Python tools like NLTK, spaCy, TensorFlow Kera, Transformer and BERT.
The objective of this book is to provide readers with a fundamental grasp of NLP and its core technologies, and to enable them to build their own NLP applications (e.g. Chatbot systems) using Python-based NLP tools. It is both a textbook and NLP tool-book intended for the following readers: undergraduate students from various disciplines who want to learn NLP; lecturers and tutors who want to teach courses or tutorials for undergraduate/graduate students on NLP and related AI topics; and readers with various backgrounds who want to learn NLP, and more importantly, to build workable NLP applications after completing its 14 hours of Python-based workshops.Reviews / Votes
"As a book seeking to present key NLP concepts developed over the past five decades, I would say that it is reasonably well done. It will definitely be helpful to readers who are interested in the field, including the theory behind the concepts, and especially those who want to learn how to work with text in a more practical way." (Jun-Ping Ng, Computing Reviews, November 8, 2024)
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Dr. Raymond Lee is the founder of Quantum Finance Forecast System and currently an Associate Professor at United International College (UIC) with 25+ years' experience in AI research and consultancy, Chaotic Neural Networks, NLP, Intelligent Fintech Systems, Quantum Finance, and Intelligent E-Commerce Systems. He has published over 100 publications and authored eight textbooks in the fields of AI, chaotic neural networks, AI-based fintech systems, intelligent agent technology, chaotic cryptosystems, ontological agents, neural oscillators, biometrics, and weather simulation and forecasting systems. Upon completion of the QFFC project, in 2018 he joined United International College (UIC), China to pursue further R&D work on AI-Fintech, and to share his expertise in AI-Fintech, chaotic neural networks and related intelligent systems with fellow students and the community. His two latest textbooks, Quantum Finance: Intelligent Forecast and Trading Systems (2019) and Artificial Intelligence in Daily Life (2020), have been the main textbooks for new AI courses at UIC since 2020