"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Intelligent digital assistants in form of voice transcription, machine translation,
conversational agents, and sentiment analysis are ubiquitously applied across various
domains to facilitate human-computer interactions. Chatbot's are becoming an integrated
part of any website; while virtual assistants are gaining more popularity in homes and office
spaces. Consequently, given numerous existing resources that contain these topics under the
notion of natural language processing (NLP), a contribution that covers a comprehensive
guide to the fundamentals and the state-of-the-art, and on top of that includes practical
examples with most popular frameworks and tool kits, is a rare find.
The leading authors' reputation in ML needs no further explanation. With both equipped
with academic education in world-class universities and many years of leadership in ML
development, Rajesh and Rajalingappa's qualification to lead the authorship of this book is
confirmed. I have come to know them not only as knowledgeable individuals but also as
passionate educators who convey the most sophisticated concepts in the simplest words.
Raja's passion to help start-ups get off the ground and to offer his expertise to young
companies with an open heart is admirable. I'm sure that, even as readers of this book,
you can approach him for questions and be sure of a convincing response.
Sachin Srivastava
Sachin Srivastava is an ML developer. Previously, he
developed ML solutions for smart city development in
areas such as passenger flow analysis in public transit
systems and optimization of energy consumption in
buildings when working with Centre for Social
Innovation. He has published papers in conferences
and has pending patents in storage and ML
