{"product_id":"applied-spacy-william-e-clark-9798267282147","title":"Applied spaCy: Practical Techniques for Building Robust NLP Pipelines and Production Systems","description":"Applied spaCy: Practical Techniques for Building Robust NLP Pipelines and Production Systems is a hands-on guide that teaches engineers and researchers how to design, build, and maintain industrial-grade NLP solutions using spaCy. Grounded in real-world workflows, the book moves beyond tutorials to demonstrate practical decisions and patterns for reliable, scalable systems-covering environment and dependency management, cross-platform deployment, and how spaCy fits within the broader NLP ecosystem alongside tools like NLTK, CoreNLP, Stanza, and Transformers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe core chapters unpack spaCy's data structures and pipeline mechanics-tokenization, segmentation, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, and named entity recognition-while emphasizing extensibility and error analysis. Readers learn to craft custom components, mix rule-based and statistical approaches, handle multilingual and large-scale data, and profile and optimize pipelines for throughput and latency. Annotation best practices, tooling for quality control, and techniques for integrating spaCy with scikit-learn and transformer models are presented as pragmatic, repeatable patterns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdvanced sections cover the full model lifecycle: preparing data, training and fine-tuning models, active learning, explainability, privacy considerations, and deploying models to cloud and on-device environments. The book closes with production engineering guidance-monitoring, versioning, testing, and continuous improvement-alongside a call to contribute to the spaCy ecosystem and to adopt responsible, ethical practices when delivering NLP systems in the real world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William E. Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798267282147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"William E. Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083705458943,"sku":"9798267282147","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/applied-spacy-william-e-clark-9798267282147","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}