# NLP: A Primer

## 🔖 Outline

Section outline as covered in the book. 

* NLP in the Real World
  * NLP Tasks
* What Is Language?
  * How Does Language Make NLP Challenging?
* Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and NLP: An Overview
* Approaches to NLP
  * Heuristics-Based NLP
  * Machine Learning for NLP
  * Deep Learning for NLP
  * Why Deep Learning Is Not Yet the Silver Bullet for NLP
* An NLP Walkthrough: Conversational Agents
* Wrapping Up

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