Masato Hagiwara

Masato Hagiwaraspan> received a PhD in computer science from Nagoya University in 2009, focusing on natural language processing and machine learning. He has interned at Google and Microsoft Research and worked at Baidu, Rakuten Institute of Technology, and Duolingo, as an engineer and a researcher. He now runs his own research and consultancy company, Octanove Labs, focusing on educational applications of NLP.

books by Masato Hagiwara

Real-World Natural Language Processing

  • November 2021
  • ISBN 9781617296420
  • 336 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Simplified Chinese

Real-world Natural Language Processing shows you how to build the practical NLP applications that are transforming the way humans and computers work together. Guided by clear explanations of each core NLP topic, you’ll create many interesting applications including a sentiment analyzer and a chatbot. Along the way, you’ll use Python and open source libraries like AllenNLP and HuggingFace Transformers to speed up your development process.