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Intelligent digital assistants in form of voice transcription, machine translation, conversational agents, and sentiment analysis are ubiquitously applied across various domains to facilitate human-computer interactions. Chatbot's are becoming an integrated part of any website; while virtual assistants are gaining more popularity in homes and office spaces. Consequently, given numerous existing resources that contain these topics under the notion of natural language processing (NLP), a contribution that covers a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals and the state-of-the-art, and on top of that includes practical examples with most popular frameworks and tool kits, is a rare find. The leading authors' reputation in ML needs no further explanation. With both equipped with academic education in world-class universities and many years of leadership in ML development, Rajesh and Rajalingappa's qualification to lead the authorship of this book is confirmed. I have come to know them not only as knowledgeable individuals but also as passionate educators who convey the most sophisticated concepts in the simplest words. Raja's passion to help start-ups get off the ground and to offer his expertise to young companies with an open heart is admirable. I'm sure that, even as readers of this book, you can approach him for questions and be sure of a convincing response.