TY - BOOK AU - TUNSTALL LEWIS AU - LEANDRO VON WERRA AU - THOMAS WOLF TI - NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WITH TRANSFORMERS SN - 978-93-5542-032-9 PY - 2023/// CY - CALIFORNIA PB - O'REILLY, SPD PVT LTD KW - AIML KW - COMPUTERS KW - R-23 N1 - NLP; AIML; CSD & CSM & CSC N2 - "Natural Language Processing with Transformers," authored by Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra, and Thomas Wolf, serves as a comprehensive and practical guide for data scientists and machine learning engineers on applying state-of-the-art Transformer models to real-world Natural Language Processing tasks. Centered almost entirely on the powerful Hugging Face ecosystem—a library the authors helped build—the book moves beyond theory to provide hands-on instruction for the complete model lifecycle. It meticulously walks readers through loading data, tokenization, and fine-tuning powerful pre-trained models like BERT and GPT for a wide variety of applications, including text classification, named entity recognition (NER), question answering, and text summarization. Furthermore, it addresses the critical, real-world challenges of deploying models to production, covering essential optimization techniques such as knowledge distillation and quantization to make models smaller and faster ER -