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Latest draft, July 28, 2023:

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  • 07/28/2023: Improved index.
  • 06/30/2023: Many small changes. I think we’re done?
  • 06/16/2023: One full pass over the text until chapter 11 (including). Fixed several embarrassing mistakes, typos, and grammatical issues.
  • 05/11/2023: Improved introduction. Fixes several bugs in chapter 5 and 12.
  • 12/23/2022: Added index. Various small changes.
  • 08/17/2022: Added Appendix A. Many small changes.
  • 07/28/2022: Added chapter 15 - implementing encoder-decoder methods. Many small changes throughout.
  • 07/20/2022: Fixed typos and grammar in Chapter 13.
  • 07/16/2022: Added chapter 13. Added historical background, references, and summaries to chapters 2 – 11.
  • 07/12/2022: Fixed many typos throughout the book.
  • 07/09/2022: Added summaries to all completed chapters.
  • 07/07/2022: Four new chapters: Chapter 9 - text classification in PyTorch, Chapter 11 - POS tagging using RNNs in PyTorch, Chapter 14 - encoder-decoder methods, and Chapter 16 - neural architectures for NLP applications. Revised intro to match the new chapters.
  • 03/09/2022: Fixed typos and grammar issues in Chapter 7.
  • 03/07/2022: Fixed typos in Chapter 12. Added Chapter 7 with code for FFNNs.
  • 02/18/2022: Completed Chapter 12; added the forward and Viterbi algorithms.
  • 01/21/2022: Fixed several typos in Chapters 4 and 12. Started the CRF section.
  • 01/14/2022: Added Chapter 4 (implementing LR from scratch and in PyTorch) and content to Chapter 12 on RNNs and LSTMs.
  • 10/22/2021: Added Chapter 10 on transformer networks
  • 07/06/2021: Completed Chapter 6 (best practices); added Appendix B (character encodings)
  • 04/16/2021: Added Chapter 6.3: Activation Functions
  • 04/13/2021: Added discussion of mini-batching in Chapter 6
  • 03/25/2021: Fixed several typos in Chapter 5
  • 03/19/2021: Added first draft of Chapter 5: Feed Forward Neural Networks
  • 02/17/2021: Improved discussion in Section 3.7
  • 02/05/2021: Added Section 3.6: Evaluation Measures for Multiclass Text Classification
  • 01/27/2021: Added Chapter 7: Distributional Hypothesis and Representation Learning