Yuli Vasiliev

Yuli Vasiliev is a programmer, freelance author, and consultant with more than two decades of experience. He began as a developer of database-driven applications, using Oracle database technology. The need for data analysis led him eventually to the field of ML and AI.

His present professional interests are in the area of natural language processing (NLP). He runs the @stocknewstip_bot in Telegram, which is available at https://t.me/stocknewstip_bot. The bot can find and bring to the user the latest information about a company's stock, as well as other interesting information related to the company. All the user needs to do is to type in the name of a company, say, Apple, Google, or Tesla. there is also stocknewstip channel (https://t.me/stocknewstip) related to this bot.

He also runs @pic2phrase_bot (https://telegram.me/pic2phrase_bot), where everyone can see an illustration of how the Computer Vision and NLP technologies can be efficiently used together. He is also one of the maintainers of @Porphyry_bot available at https://telegram.me/Porphyry_bot, where he experiments with different NLP tools and techniques.

His new book Natural Language Processing with Python and spaCy explains how you can create NLP applications like chatbots, text-condensing scripts, and order-processing tools. The source code for the book examples is available on GitHub at https://github.com/nlptechbook/examples. To get a quick idea of what this book is about, check out these 2-minute videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc6tULQ1aMQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIP-38wA7ms. Catch up on new Yuli's articles on Twitter at @VasilievYuli.