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Natural Language Processing

Books

  • Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (Manning and Schutze)
  • Applied Text Analysis with Python (Bengfort, Bilbro and Ojeda)
  • Natural Language Processing for Social Media (Farzinder and Inkpen)


  • Code Examples

  • Natural Language Processing (Kaggle)
  • Natural Language Processing with Python
  • NLP: Pre-trained Sentiment Analysis
  • Text Classification in Python Using Spacy
  • A Visual Guide to Using BERT for the First Time
  • BERT Explained: A Complete Guide with Theory and Tutorial
  • spaCy meets Transformers: Fine-tune BERT, XLNet and GPT-2
  • Sentiment Analysis of IMDb Movie Reviews Using BERT (from this article)
  • How to train a new language model from scratch using Transformers and Tokenizers


  • Courses

  • Natural Language Processing (Kaggle)
  • Natural Language Processing in Tensorflow (Coursera)
  • Sequence Models (Coursera)
  • SpaCy (Ines Montani)
  • Mastering SpaCy for Natural Language Processing Examples


  • Papers

  • Long Short-term Memory (1997, Hochreiter and Schmidhuber)
  • A Neural Probabilistic Language Model (2003, Bengio et al)
  • Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling (2014, Chung et al)
  • Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate (2014, Bahdanau et al)
  • Attention Is All You Need (2017, Vaswani et al)
  • BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding (2018, Devlin et al)
  • Beto, Bentz, Becas: The Surprising Cross-Lingual Effectiveness of BERT (2019, Wu and Dredze)
  • SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter (2019, Basile et al)
  • A Primer in BERTology: What we know about how BERT works (2020, Rogers et al)


  • Short Tutorials and Other Articles

  • The Illustrated BERT, ELMo, and co. (How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning)
  • Understanding Word Vectors (Allison Parrish)
  • BERT Word Embeddings Tutorial (May 2019)
  • BERT Research - Ep. 1 - Key Concepts & Sources (Nov 2019)
  • The State of Transfer Learning in NLP (Aug 2019)
  • 10 ML & NLP Research Highlights of 2019


  • Videos/Presentations

  • Kevin Markham's PyCon2016 Tutorial: Machine Learning with Text in scikit-learn
  • Modern NLP in Python (PyData DC 2016)
  • BERT Research Explained (Chris McCormicAI)

  • BERT Mountain" illustration from
    "Chris McCormickAI on YouTube

    Use Cases

  • Text classification e.g. sentiment analysis
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  • Question answering
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