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This article provides a brief introduction to natural language using spaCy and related libraries in Python.

While humans have been using language since we arose, a complete understanding of language is a lifelong pursuit that often comes short, even for experts. To task computer technology with comprehending language, translating and even producing original written works represents a series of problems that are still in the process of being solved.

In this guest post, Holden Karau, Apache Spark Committer, provides insights on how to use spaCy to process text data. Karau is a Developer Advocate at Google, as well as a co-author of "High Performance Spark" and "Learning Spark". She has a repository of her talks, code reviews and code sessions on Twitch and YouTube. She is also working on Distributed Computing 4 Kids.

Many thanks to Addison-Wesley Professional for providing the permissions to excerpt "Natural Language Processing" from the book, Deep Learning Illustrated by Krohn, Beyleveld, and Bassens. The excerpt covers how to create word vectors and utilize them as an input into a deep learning model.