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H**N
Excellent
The book I ordered arrived very quickly and in great condition. I would order from them again.
B**.
The entire book is printed in various shades of grey
I got this today and have not really started to read it. The content looks good and the writing seem clear and well constructed. ( After all, this is a book about natural language. )However, the print quality is low. Only some subject heading are in black. It seems like 98% of the text is in various shades of grey. The coding examples are in light grey. It used to be okay to simply mark coding examples with a different font. This publisher seems to think making the coding examples harder to read is some desirable objective.Maybe the publisher is saving money on ink.
P**A
Useful introduction to various NLP tasks in one place
Typically, NLP textbooks are dense and mathematical. On the other hand are the more practical ones, which give a broad, end to end perspective on how to perform various tasks. In this book, we see a task wise split of chapters, but they are also designed in a more introductory manner, giving detailed conceptual understanding along with some hands on practice. Author profiling as one of the tasks is perhaps unique to this NLP book.
M**E
Wonderfully enriching learning experience
Admittedly, I thought the book would be a bit over my head when I started. And the hand holding thru important concepts quickly opened my eyes to concepts not only in natural language processing but in the underlying concepts such as geometry.I am a certified geek and am not sorry to admit that i go back to the book at night re-reading and suddenly have an 'aha-now i finally get it' moment. The way how concepts are explained really suits my learning style.
A**R
Logical and Structured Way Of Explaining
I've studied this book as I was a Manning Beta Tester. Prof Ekaterina Kochmar has explained all the concepts of NLP nicely with the help of examples in each chapter.These examples are very practical i.e. Spam and Ham classification, Sentimental Analysis, Topic Analysis etc.Also, related machine learning concepts are explained in a detailed manner with the help of Scikit-learn.It is a must read for any Natural Language Practitioner.
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