1st Edition

Teaching Computers to Read Effective Best Practices in Building Valuable NLP Solutions

By Rachel Wagner-Kaiser Copyright 2026
238 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

238 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

238 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Building Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions that deliver ongoing business value is not straightforward. This book provides clarity and guidance on how to design, develop, deploy, and maintain NLP solutions that address real-world business problems. In this book, we discuss the main challenges and pitfalls encountered when building NLP solutions. We also outline how technical choices... Read more

Acronyms and Definitions

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Debunking Common Myths in Natural Language Processing

2. The Trajectory of Natural Language Processing: Classic, Modern, and Generative

3. Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence

4. Pre-processing and Exploratory Data Analysis for NLP

5. Framing the Task and Data Labeling

6. Data Curation for NLP Corpora

7. Machine Learning Approaches for Natural Language Problems

8. Working Across Languages in NLP

9. Evaluating Performance of NLP Solutions

10. Maintaining Value: Deploying and Monitoring NLP Solutions

11. NLPOps: The Mechanics of NLP Production at Scale

12. Ethics in Data Science and NLP

13. Key Factors for Successful NLP Solutions

Index

Biography

Rachel Wagner-Kaiser has 15 years of experience in data and AI, entering the data science field after completing her PhD in astronomy. She specializes in building NLP solutions for real-world problems constrained by limited or messy data. Rachel leads technical teams to design, build, deploy, and maintain NLP solutions, and her expertise has helped companies organize and decode their unstructured data to solve a variety of business problems and drive value through automation.