Welcome to Code First NLP¶

This is an experimental book to learn NLP in a non linear code first style

For a while I have been approaching Data Science learning in a code-first fashion. What does that mean to me? I start by learning the whole field.

I start by figuring out and defining an high level objective : in this case learning nlp; effectively by writing a book, a utility tool and documenting my journey
I get lay of the land.
- What out of box tools are available?
- What libraries are available?
- What are current cutting edge techniques and applications
- What are prevalent future directions and application areas?
I implement code as soon as possible to do something useful without going into too much internal details.
Iteratively improve the results, models and work on adding deeper insights subsequently.