Cole Howard

COLE HOWARD is a machine learning engineer, NLP practitioner, and writer. A lifelong hunter of patterns, he found his true home in the world of artificial neural networks. He has developed large-scale e-commerce recommendation engines and state-of-the-art neural nets for hyperdimensional machine intelligence systems (deep learning neural nets), which perform at the top of the leader board for the Kaggle competitions. He has presented talks on Convolutional Neural Nets, Recurrent Neural Nets, and their roles in natural language processing at the Open Source Bridge Conference and Hack University.

books by Cole Howard

Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition

  • January 2025
  • ISBN 9781617299445
  • 688 pages
  • printed in black & white

Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition introduces the foundational technologies and state-of-the-art tools you’ll need to write and publish NLP applications. You learn how to create custom models for search, translation, writing assistants, and more, without relying on big commercial foundation models. This fully updated second edition includes coverage of BERT, Hugging Face transformers, fine-tuning large language models, and more.

Natural Language Processing in Action

  • March 2019
  • ISBN 9781617294631
  • 544 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Natural Language Processing in Action is your guide to building machines that can read and interpret human language. In it, you’ll use readily available Python packages to capture the meaning in text and react accordingly. The book expands traditional NLP approaches to include neural networks, modern deep learning algorithms, and generative techniques as you tackle real-world problems like extracting dates and names, composing text, and answering free-form questions.