Hobson Lane

Hobson Lane began building text interfaces (TUIs) in elementary school, when he first programmed text adventure games and dreamed of a virtual friend to help him learn and grow. Now at Tangible AI, Hobson is on the cusp of fulfilling this dream. Over the past 25 years, Hobson has built dozens of successful machine learning NLP systems for big tech and small tech alike. From visual interpreters for the blind to state-of-the-art virtual tutors, Hobson has helped build AI to solve some of the most challenging real-world problems. Throughout his career, Hobson has defaulted to open and fought for ethical, transparent algorithms. This trove of unencumbered software and data has given him a wealth of insights and algorithms to share with you.

books by Hobson Lane

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.