Natural Language Processing (2nd ed.)

This textbook provides a contemporary and comprehensive overview of Natural Language Processing (NLP), covering fundamental concepts, core algorithms, and key applications such as AI chatbots, Large Language Models and Generative AI. Additionally, it includes seven step-by-step NLP workshops, totaling 14 hours, that offer hands-on practice with essential Python tools, including NLTK, spaCy, TensorFlow, Keras, Transformers, and BERT. The objective of this book is to provide readers with a fundame