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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On
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Hopefully, you're excited about chatbots and their potential applications, so let's now get to the boring details of NLP building blocks and standard approaches. As with almost everything in ML, there is a lot of hype around deep NLP and it is evolving at a fast pace, so this section will just scratch the surface and cover the most common and standard building blocks. For a more detailed description, Richard Socher's online course CS224d (http://cs224d.stanford.edu) is a really good starting point.
NLP has its own specifics that make it different from computer vision or other domains. One such feature is processing variable-length objects. At various levels, NLP deals with objects that could have different lengths; for example, a word in a language could contain several characters. Sentences are formed from variable-length word sequences. Paragraphs or documents consist of varying numbers of sentences. Such variability is not NLP-specific...