Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing

Chapter 1: A Joint Introduction to Natural Language Processing and to Deep Learning.- Chapter 2: Deep Learning in Conversational Language Understanding.- Chapter 3: Deep Learning in Spoken and Text-Based Dialogue Systems.- Chapter 4: Deep Learning in Lexical Analysis and Parsing.- Chapter 5: Deep Learning in Knowledge Graph.- Chapter 6: Deep Learning in Machine Translation.- Chapter 7: Deep Learning in Question Answering.- Chapter 8: Deep Learning in Sentiment Analysis.- Chapter 9: Deep Learning in Social Computing.- Chapter 10: Deep Learning in Natural Language Generation from Images.- 11. Epilogue: Frontiers of NLP in the Deep Learning Era.

Li Deng is the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of Citadel since May 2017. Prior to Citadel, he was the Chief Scientist of AI, the founder of Deep Learning Technology Center, and Partner Research Manager at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he was a tenured full professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada as well as teaching and conducting research at MIT (Cambridge), ATR (Kyoto, Japan) and HKUST (Hong Kong). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a Fellow of the ISCA. He has also been an Affiliate Professor at University of Washington since 2000. He was an elected member of Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and was Editors-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (2008-2014), for which he received the IEEE SPS Meritorious Service Award. In recognition of the pioneering work on disrupting speech recognition industry using large-scale deep learning, he received the 2015 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award for "Outstanding Contributions to Deep Learning and to Automatic Speech Recognition." He also received numerous best paper and patent awards for the contributions to artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, multimedia signal processing, and speech processing. He is an author or co-author of six technical books.

Yang Liu is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He received his PhD degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology in 2007. His research focuses on natural language processing and machine translation. He has published over 50 papers in leading NLP/AI journals and conferences such as Computational Linguistics, ACL, AAAI, EMNLP, and COLING. He won the COLING/ACL 2006 Meritorious Asian NLP Paper Award and the National Science and