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Published inJun 2023
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Deborah A. Dahl
Deborah A. Dahl
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Deborah A. Dahl

Deborah A. Dahl is the principal at Conversational Technologies, with over 30 years of experience in natural language understanding technology. She has developed numerous natural language processing systems for research, commercial, and government applications, including a system for NASA, and speech and natural language components on Android. She has taught over 20 workshops on natural language processing, consulted on many natural language processing applications for her customers, and written over 75 technical papers. Th is is Deborah's fourth book on natural language understanding topics. Deborah has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Minnesota and postdoctoral studies in cognitive science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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In this chapter, we covered the major development tools and Python libraries that are used in NLP application development. We discussed the JupyterLab development environment and the GitHub software repository system. The major libraries that we covered were NLTK, spaCy, and Keras. Although this is by no means an exhaustive list of NLP libraries, it’s sufficient to get a start on almost any NLP project.

We covered installation and basic usage for the major libraries, and we provided some suggested tips on selecting libraries. We summarized some useful auxiliary packages, and we concluded with a simple example of how the libraries can be used to do some NLP tasks.

The topics discussed in this chapter have given you a basic understanding of the most useful Python packages for NLP, which you will be using for the rest of the book. In addition, the discussion in this chapter has given you a start on understanding the principles for selecting tools for future projects...

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Published in: Jun 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804613429

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Deborah A. Dahl

Deborah A. Dahl is the principal at Conversational Technologies, with over 30 years of experience in natural language understanding technology. She has developed numerous natural language processing systems for research, commercial, and government applications, including a system for NASA, and speech and natural language components on Android. She has taught over 20 workshops on natural language processing, consulted on many natural language processing applications for her customers, and written over 75 technical papers. Th is is Deborah's fourth book on natural language understanding topics. Deborah has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Minnesota and postdoctoral studies in cognitive science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Read more about Deborah A. Dahl