awesome-nlp

A curated list of resources dedicated to Natural Language Processing

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Contents

• Tutorials
  • Videos and Courses
• Deep Learning for NLP
• Libraries
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • C++
  • Java
  • Scala
  • R
  • Clojure
  • Ruby
  • Rust
• Services
• Techniques
  • Word Vectors
  • Thought Vectors
  • Machine Translation
  • Single Exchange Dialogs
  • Memory and Attention Models
  • Named Entity Recognition
  • Neural Network
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Question Answering and Knowledge Extraction
• Datasets
• Credits

Tutorials

General Machine Learning

• AI Playbook is a brief set of pieces to introduce machine learning and other advancements to technical as well as non-technical audience. Written by the amazing people over at a16z - Andreessen Horowitz this is a great link to forward to your managers or content for your presentations
• Machine Learning Blog by Brian McFee

Introductions and Guides to NLP

• Ultimate Guide to Understand & Implement Natural Language Processing
• Introduction to NLP at Hackernoon is for people who suck at math - in their own words
• NLP Tutorial

Specialized Blogs

• Deep Learning, NLP, and Representations
• Natural Language Processing Blog by Hal Daumé III
• Tensor Flow Tutorial on Seq2Seq Models
• Several tutorials by Radim Řehůřek on using Python and gensim to process language corpora
• arXiv: Natural Language Processing (Almost) from Scratch

Videos and Online Courses

Deep Learning and NLP

Word embeddings, RNNs, LSTMs and CNNs for Natural Language Processing

• Coursera Intro to Natural Language Processing by U of Michigan
• Udacity's Intro to Artificial Intelligence course which touches upon NLP as well
• Udacity's Deep Learning using Tensorflow which covers a section on using deep learning for NLP tasks (covering Word2Vec, RNN's and LSTMs)
• Deep Natural Language Processing at Oxford has videos, lecture slides and reading material
• Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (cs224n Winter 2017) by Richard Socher and Christopher Manning at Stanford. Tensorflow. Lecture Slides and Reading Material here
• Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (cs224d 2016) by Richard Socher. Updated to make use of Tensorflow. Some lectures missing. Lecture Slides + Reading Materials
• Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (cs224d 2015) by Richard Socher

Classical NLP

Bayesian, statistics and Linguistics approaches for Natural Language Processing

• Natural Language Processing by Prof. Mike Collins at Columbia
• Statistical Machine Translation - a Machine Translation course with great assignments and slides
• NLTK with Python 3 for Natural Language Processing by Harrison Kinsley(sentdex). Good tutorials with NLTK code implementation
• Computational Linguistics I by Jordan Boyd-Graber, Lectures from University of Maryland

Packages

Libraries

• Node.js and Javascript - Node.js Libaries for NLP

  • Twitter-text - A JavaScript implementation of Twitter's text processing library
  • Knwl.js - A Natural Language Processor in JS
  • Retext - Extensible system for analyzing and manipulating natural language
  • NLP Compromise - Natural Language processing in the browser
  • Natural - general natural language facilities for node

• Python - Python NLP Libraries

  • Scikit-learn: Machine learning in Python
  • Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
  • Pattern - A web mining module for the Python programming language. It has tools for natural language processing, machine learning, among others.
  • TextBlob - Providing a consistent API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and Pattern, and plays nicely with both.
  • YAlign - A sentence aligner, a friendly tool for extracting parallel sentences from comparable corpora.
  • jieba - Chinese Words Segmentation Utilities.
  • SnowNLP - A library for processing Chinese text.
  • KoNLPy - A Python package for Korean natural language processing.
  • Rosetta - Text processing tools and wrappers (e.g. Vowpal Wabbit)
  • BLLIP Parser - Python bindings for the BLLIP Natural Language Parser (also known as the Charniak-Johnson parser)
  • PyNLPl - Python Natural Language Processing Library. General purpose NLP library for Python. Also contains some specific modules for parsing common NLP formats, most notably for FoLiA, but also ARPA language models, Moses phrasetables, GIZA++ alignments.
  • python-ucto - Python binding to ucto (a unicode-aware rule-based tokenizer for various languages)
  • Parserator - A toolkit for making domain-specific probabilistic parsers
  • python-frog - Python binding to Frog, an NLP suite for Dutch. (pos tagging, lemmatisation, dependency parsing, NER)
  • python-zpar - Python bindings for ZPar, a statistical part-of-speech-tagger, constiuency parser, and dependency parser for English.
  • colibri-core - Python binding to C++ library for extracting and working with with basic linguistic constructions such as n-grams and skipgrams in a quick and memory-efficient way.
  • spaCy - Industrial strength NLP with Python and Cython.
  • textacy - Higher level NLP built on spaCy
  • PyStanfordDependencies - Python interface for converting Penn Treebank trees to Stanford Dependencies.
  • gensim - Python library to conduct unsupervised semantic modelling from plain text
  • scattertext - Python library to produce d3 visualizations of how language differs between corpora.
  • CogComp-NlPy - Light-weight Python NLP annotators.
  • PyThaiNLP - Thai NLP in Python Package.
  • jPTDP - A toolkit for joint part-of-speech (POS) tagging and dependency parsing. jPTDP provides pre-trained models for 40+ languages.
  • CLTK: The Classical Language Toolkit is a Python library and collection of texts for doing NLP in ancient languages.
  • pymorphy2 - a good pos-tagger for Russian
  • BigARTM - a fast library for topic modelling
  • AllenNLP - An NLP research library, built on PyTorch, for developing state-of-the-art deep learning models on a wide variety of linguistic tasks.

• C++ - C++ Libraries

  • MIT Information Extraction Toolkit - C, C++, and Python tools for named entity recognition and relation extraction
  • CRF++ - Open source implementation of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for segmenting/labeling sequential data & other Natural Language Processing tasks.
  • CRFsuite - CRFsuite is an implementation of Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) for labeling sequential data.
  • BLLIP Parser - BLLIP Natural Language Parser (also known as the Charniak-Johnson parser)
  • colibri-core - C++ library, command line tools, and Python binding for extracting and working with basic linguistic constructions such as n-grams and skipgrams in a quick and memory-efficient way.
  • ucto - Unicode-aware regular-expression based tokenizer for various languages. Tool and C++ library. Supports FoLiA format.
  • libfolia - C++ library for the FoLiA format
  • frog - Memory-based NLP suite developed for Dutch: PoS tagger, lemmatiser, dependency parser, NER, shallow parser, morphological analyzer.
  • MeTA - MeTA : ModErn Text Analysis is a C++ Data Sciences Toolkit that facilitates mining big text data.
  • Mecab (Japanese)
  • Mecab (Korean)
  • Moses
  • StarSpace - a library from Facebook for creating embeddings of word-level, paragraph-level, document-level and for text classification

• Java - Java NLP Libraries

  • Stanford NLP
  • OpenNLP
  • ClearNLP
  • Word2vec in Java
  • ReVerb Web-Scale Open Information Extraction
  • OpenRegex An efficient and flexible token-based regular expression language and engine.
  • CogcompNLP - Core libraries developed in the U of Illinois' Cognitive Computation Group.
  • MALLET - MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit - package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.
  • RDRPOSTagger - A robust POS tagging toolkit available (in both Java & Python) together with pre-trained models for 40+ languages.

• Scala - Scala NLP Libraries

  • Saul - Library for developing NLP systems, including built in modules like SRL, POS, etc.
  • ATR4S - Toolkit with state-of-the-art automatic term recognition methods.
  • tm - Implementation of topic modeling based on regularized multilingual PLSA.
  • word2vec-scala - Scala interface to word2vec model; includes operations on vectors like word-distance and word-analogy.
  • Epic - Epic is a high performance statistical parser written in Scala, along with a framework for building complex structured prediction models.

• R - R NLP Libraries

  • text2vec - Fast vectorization, topic modeling, distances and GloVe word embeddings in R.
  • wordVectors - An R package for creating and exploring word2vec and other word embedding models
  • RMallet - R package to interface with the Java machine learning tool MALLET
  • dfr-browser - Creates d3 visualizations for browsing topic models of text in a web browser.
  • dfrtopics - R package for exploring topic models of text.
  • sentiment_classifier - Sentiment Classification using Word Sense Disambiguation and WordNet Reader
  • jProcessing - Japanese Natural Langauge Processing Libraries, with Japanese sentiment classification

• Clojure

  • Clojure-openNLP - Natural Language Processing in Clojure (opennlp)
  • Infections-clj - Rails-like inflection library for Clojure and ClojureScript
  • postagga - A library to parse natural language in Clojure and ClojureScript

• Ruby

  • Kevin Dias's A collection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) Ruby libraries, tools and software
  • Practical Natural Language Processing done in Ruby

• Rust

  • whatlang — Natural language recognition library based on trigrams

Services

• Wit-ai - Natural Language Interface for apps and devices
• IBM Watson's Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Classifier and Machine Translation API Demos
• Amazon Comprehend is NLP and ML suite from Amazon, covering most common tasks like NER, tagging, and sentiment analysis
• Google Cloud Natural Language API suite provides Syntax Analysis, NER, Sentiment Analysis, and Content tagging in atleast 9 languages include English and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

Techniques

Text Embeddings

Text embeddings allow deep learning to be effective on smaller datasets. These are often first inputs to a deep learning archiectures and most popular way of transfer learning in NLP. Embeddings are simply vectors or a more generically, real valued representations of strings. Word embeddings are considered a great starting point for most deep NLP tasks.

The most popular names in word embeddings are word2vec by Google (Mikolov) and GloVe by Stanford (Pennington, Socher and Manning). fastText seems to be a fairly popular for multi-lingual sub-word embeddings.

word2vec

word2vec was introduced by T. Mikolov et al. when he was with Google. Performs well on word similarity and analogy tasks

• Word2Vec Official Implementation
• Deep Learning, NLP, and Representations Chris Olah (2014), Beginner friendly blog explaining word2vec
• Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
• Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
• Word2Vec tutorial in TensorFlow
• gensim's Review of word2vec
• Word2Vec Resources on Github

GloVe

GloVe was introduced by Pennington, Socher, Manning from Stanford in 2014 as a statistical approximation to word embeddings. The word vectors are created by matrix factorizations of word-word co-occurence matrices here.

• GloVe: Global vectors for word representation. Creates word vectors and relates word2vec to matrix factorizations
• Glove source code and training data

fastText

fastText by Mikolov (from Facebook) supports sub-word embeddings in more than 200 languages. This allows it to work with out of vocabulary words as well. It captures language morphology well. It also supports a supervised classification mechanism.

• fastText on Github - for efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification
• Pre-trained Vectors in several languages
• Paper: Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information
• Paper: Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
• Paper: FastText.zip: Compressing text classification models
• Unofficial Python Wrapper for fastText on Github

Other Text Embeddings

• Pre-trained word embeddings for WSJ corpus by Koc AI-Lab
• HLBL language model by Turian
• Real-valued vector "embeddings" by Dhillon
• Improving Word Representations Via Global Context And Multiple Word Prototypes by Huang
• Dependency based word embeddings
• sense2vec - on word sense disambiguation
• Infinite Dimensional Word Embeddings - new
• Skip Thought Vectors - word representation method
• Adaptive skip-gram - similar approach, with adaptive properties
• Sequence to Sequence Learning - word vectors for machine translation
• Improving distributional similarity with lessons learned from word embeddings

Thought Vectors

Thought vectors are numeric representations for sentences, paragraphs, and documents. The following papers are listed in order of date published, each one replaces the last as the state of the art in sentiment analysis.

• Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank Socher et al. 2013. Introduces Recursive Neural Tensor Network. Uses a parse tree.
• Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents Le, Mikolov. 2014. Introduces Paragraph Vector. Concatenates and averages pretrained, fixed word vectors to create vectors for sentences, paragraphs and documents. Also known as paragraph2vec. Doesn't use a parse tree. Implemented in gensim. See doc2vec tutorial
• Deep Recursive Neural Networks for Compositionality in Language Irsoy & Cardie. 2014. Uses Deep Recursive Neural Networks. Uses a parse tree.
• Improved Semantic Representations From Tree-Structured Long Short-Term Memory Networks Tai et al. 2015 Introduces Tree LSTM. Uses a parse tree.
• Semi-supervised Sequence Learning Dai, Le 2015 "With pretraining, we are able to train long short term memory recurrent networks up to a few hundred timesteps, thereby achieving strong performance in many text classification tasks, such as IMDB, DBpedia and 20 Newsgroups."

Machine Translation

• Google Research's blog post for neural machine translation using encoder-decoder architecture with seq2seq models. Tensorflow Code here
  • seq2seq tensorflow tutorial
• Prof Graham Neubig's Neural Machine Translation tutorial in Perl
• arXiv: Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks Sutskever, Vinyals, Le 2014 proved the effectiivenss of LSTM for Machine Translation. Check their (nips presentation)
• arXiv: Neural Machine Translation by jointly learning to align and translate Bahdanau, Cho 2014 introduced the attention mechanism in NLP
• Open Source code: OpenNMT is an open source initiative for neural machine translation and neural sequence modeling. It has a PyTorch, Tensorflow and the original LuaTorch implementation.

Single Exchange Dialogs

A Neural Network Approach toContext-Sensitive Generation of Conversational Responses Sordoni 2015. Generates responses to tweets. Uses Recurrent Neural Network Language Model (RLM) architecture of (Mikolov et al., 2010). source code: RNNLM Toolkit

Neural Responding Machine for Short-Text Conversation Shang et al. 2015 Uses Neural Responding Machine. Trained on Weibo dataset. Achieves one round conversations with 75% appropriate responses.

A Neural Conversation Model Vinyals, Le 2015. Uses LSTM RNNs to generate conversational responses. Uses seq2seq framework. Seq2Seq was originally designed for machine transation and it "translates" a single sentence, up to around 79 words, to a single sentence response, and has no memory of previous dialog exchanges. Used in Google Smart Reply feature for Inbox

Memory and Attention Models

Most are courtesy andrewt3000/DL4NLP

• Augmented RNNs is an amazing interactive Tutorial on Attention and Memory networks
• Reasoning, Attention and Memory RAM workshop at NIPS 2015. slides included
• Memory Networks Weston et. al 2014
• End-To-End Memory Networks Sukhbaatar et. al 2015 Memory networks are implemented in MemNN. Attempts to solve task of reason attention and memory
• Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks Weston 2015. Classifies QA tasks like single factoid, yes/no etc. Extends memory networks
• Evaluating prerequisite qualities for learning end to end dialog systems Dodge et. al 2015. Tests Memory Networks on 4 tasks including reddit dialog task
• Jason Weston lecture on MemNN
• Neural Turing Machines, Graves et al. 2014
• Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack-Augmented Recurrent Nets, Joulin, Mikolov 2015
• Stack RNN source code and blog post

Natural Language Understanding

• Neural autocoder for paragraphs and documents - LSTM representation
• LSTM over tree structures
• Low-Dimensional Embeddings of Logic
• Tutorial on Markov Logic Networks (based on this paper)
• Distant Supervision for Cancer Pathway Extraction From Text
• A Neural Probabilistic Language Model
• Retrofitting word vectors to semantic lexicons
• Unsupervised Learning of the Morphology of a Natural Language
• Computational Grounded Cognition: a new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modelling
• Learning the Structure of Biomedical Relation Extractions

Named Entity Recognition

• A survey of named entity recognition and classification
• Benchmarking the extraction and disambiguation of named entities on the semantic web
• Knowledge base population: Successful approaches and challenges
• SpeedRead: A fast named entity recognition Pipeline

Neural Network

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
• Statistical Language Models based on Neural Networks
• Slides from Google Talk

Question Answering and Knowledge Extraction

• Markov Logic Networks for Natural Language Question Answering
• Template-Based Information Extraction without the Templates
• Relation extraction with matrix factorization and universal schemas
• Privee: An Architecture for Automatically Analyzing Web Privacy Policies
• Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend - DeepMind paper
• DrQA: Open Domain Question Answering by facebook on Wikipedia data
• Relation Extraction with Matrix Factorization and Universal Schemas
• Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics: Simulating Logical Calculi with Tensors
• Presentation slides for MLN tutorial
• Presentation slides for QA applications of MLNs
• Presentation slides

Research and Review Articles

• Deep Learning for Web Search and Natural Language Processing
• Probabilistic topic models
• Natural language processing: an introduction
• A unified architecture for natural language processing: Deep neural networks with multitask learning
• A Critical Review of Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Learning
• Deep parsing in Watson
• Online named entity recognition method for microtexts in social networking services: A case study of twitter

Blogs

• Blog Post on Deep Learning, NLP, and Representations
• Blog Post on NLP Tutorial
• Natural Language Processing Blog by Hal Daumé III
• Machine Learning Blog by Brian McFee
• Ultimate Guide to Understand & Implement Natural Language Processing
• AI Playbook: An easily understandable introductory website.
• Introduction to NLP
• A Guide to Natural Language Processing: it explains the most common algorithms for many NLP tasks, from stemming to the automatic creation of summaries.

Datasets

• nlp-datasets great collection of nlp datasets

Credits

part of the lists are from

• ai-reading-list
• nlp-reading-group
• awesome-spanish-nlp
• jjangsangy's awesome-nlp
• awesome-machine-learning
• DL4NLP