Description

Mastering spaCy, Second Edition is your comprehensive guide to building sophisticated NLP applications using the spaCy ecosystem. This revised edition embraces the latest advancements in NLP, featuring new chapters on Large Language Models with spaCy-LLM, transformers integration, and end-to-end workflow management with Weasel.

With this new edition you’ll learn to enhance NLP tasks using LLMs with spaCy-llm, manage end-to-end workflows using Weasel and integrating spaCy with third-party libraries like Streamlit, FastAPI, and DVC. From training custom named entity recognition (NER) pipelines to categorizing emotions in Reddit posts, readers will explore advanced topics like text classification and coreference resolution. This book takes you on a journey through spaCy’s capabilities, starting with the fundamentals of NLP, such as tokenization, named entity recognition, and dependency parsing. As you progress, you’ll delve into advanced topics like creating custom components, training domain-specific models, and building scalable NLP workflows.

By end of the book, through practical examples, clear explanations, tips and tricks you will be empowered to build robust NLP pipelines and integrate them with web applications to build end-to-end solutions.

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