Book Intro: Practical Natural Language Processing
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The authors of "Practical Natural Language Processing: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Real World NLP Systems" (O'Reilly) will introduce their new book!
About "Practical Natural Language Processing" (http://www.practicalnlp.ai/)
Practical NLP guides readers to build, iterate, and scale NLP systems in a business setting and to tailor them to industry verticals. It provides a holistic and practical perspective that enables the reader to successfully build real-world NLP solutions embedded in larger product setups. This talk will introduce the book by walking through the different NLP topics and their relevance to real-world use cases.
Speaker Bio:
Sowmya Vajjala is a research officer in digital technologies at National Research Council, Canada's largest federal research and development organization, where she works in the multilingual text processing group.
Co-author Bios (who will participate in the live Q&A):
Bodhisattwa Majumder is currently a doctoral candidate in NLP and ML at UC San Diego. Previously, he conducted ML research and built large-scale NLP systems at Google AI Research and Microsoft Research that went into products serving millions of users.
Anuj Gupta has built NLP and ML systems as a senior leader at Fortune 100 companies as well as startups. He has incubated and led multiple ML teams in his career.
Harshit Surana is the CTO at DeepFlux Inc. He has built and scaled ML systems and engineering pipelines at several Silicon Valley startups as a founder and an advisor.