This book provides cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) techniques to unlock the power of text data. It presents advanced methods for various text classification tasks, like discourse relation classification, classification in large taxonomies, and leveraging disagreement between annotators for text classification.This book equips readers whether they are researchers or professionals, looking to apply NLP in real-world settings, with the latest advancements, and gives the...

This book unveils the most advanced techniques and innovative applications in the natural language processing (NLP) field. It uncovers the secrets to enhancing language understanding, and presents practical solutions to different NLP tasks, as text augmentation, paraphrase generation, and restoring spaces and punctuation in multiple languages. It unlocks the potential of hierarchical multi-task learning for cross-lingual phoneme recognition, and allows readers to explore more real-world ap...

This book presents recent advances in NLP and speech technology, a topic attracting increasing interest in a variety of fields through its myriad applications, such as the demand for speech guided touchless technology during the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors present results of recent experimental research that provides contributions and solutions to different issues related to speech technology and speech in industry. Technologies include natural language processing, automatic speech reco...