1 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
With a machine learning approach and less focus on linguistic
details, this gentle introduction to natural language processing
develops fundamental mathematical and deep learning models for
NLP under a unified framework. NLP problems are systematically
organised by their machine learning nature, including classification,
sequence labelling, and sequence-to-sequence problems. Topics
covered include statistical machine learning and deep learning
models, text classification and structured prediction models,
generative and discriminative models, supervised and unsupervised
learning with latent variables, neural networks, and transition-based
methods. Rich connections are drawn between concepts throughout
the book, equipping students with the tools needed to establish a
deep understanding of NLP solutions, adapt existing models, and
confidently develop innovative models of their own. Featuring a host
of examples, intuition, and end of chapter exercises, plus annotated
sample code available as an online resource, this textbook is an
invaluable tool for the upper undergraduate and graduate student.
Yue Zhang is an associate professor at Westlake University. Before
joining Westlake, he worked as a research associate at the
University of Cambridge and then a faculty member at Singapore
University of Technology and Design. His research interests lie in
fundamental algorithms for NLP, syntax, semantics, information
extraction, text generation, and machine translation. He serves as an
action editor for TACL, and as area chairs of ACL, EMNLP, COLING,
2 and NAACL. He gave several tutorials at ACL, EMNLP and NAACL,
and won a best paper award at COLING in 2018.
Zhiyang Teng is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the
natural language processing group of Westlake University, China. He
obtained his Ph.D. from Singapore University of Technology and
Design (SUTD) in 2018, and his Master’s from the University of
Chinese Academy of Science in 2014. H
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