Hands-On Natural Language Processing with PyTorch 1.x
Build smart, AI-driven linguistic applications using deep learning and NLP techniques
Thomas Dop
BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI
Hands-On Natural Language Processing with PyTorch 1.x
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Contributors
About the author
Thomas Dop is a data scientist at MagicLab, a company that creates leading dating apps, including Bumble and Badoo. He works on a variety of areas within data science, including NLP, deep learning, computer vision, and predictive modeling. He holds an MSc in data science from the University of Amsterdam.
About the reviewers
Nilan Saha is pursuing a Masters degree in Data Science with a specialization in Computational Linguistics from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has worked as an NLP contractor for multiple startups in the past, and has also got brief experience in research, which has resulted in a few publications. He is also a Kaggle Kernels and Discussion Expert.
Chintan Gajjar is a senior consultant in KNOWARTH Technologies. He has also contributed to books such as Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions, MySQL 8 for Big Data, MySQL 8 Administrators Guide, and Hands-on Natural Language Processing with Python. He has a Masters degree in computer applications from Ganpat University, India.
I would like to thank the author, co-reviewer, and the wonderful team at Packt Publishing for all efforts and my office colleagues, Darshan Kansara and Kathan Thakkar, for supporting me throughout the reviewing of this book. They both are technology enthusiasts and have a great understanding of AI/ML, CI-CD, and are great mentors.
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