My Recommendations for Getting Started with NLP
I have been studying natural language processing (NLP) since 2013, back when manual feature engineering was very popular in the world of machine learning. We have come a long way since then. I actually specialized in information retrieval and machine learning techniques for my Ph.D., particularly how they apply to social computing and computational linguistics, while at the same time developing approaches for efficient information extraction from large scale text-based data. I am fortunate to have experience with classical machine learning applied to NLP and witnessed firsthand the explosion of deep learning in the field.
Lots of students have been asking me to prepare a guide for how to get started with natural language processing. This blog post is a shot at helping