Fran Burgess has spent the last fifteen years seeking to find ways of demystifying the process of Modelling the beating heart of NLP. So here at last is her refreshing take on the A-Z of Modelling; covering the underpinning principles, the methodologies and skills, and the subsequent range of interventions which arise; plus the elusive skills of model and technique construction. You are taken on a Masterclass, from the initial exemplar to the final model and the techniques beyond that all in clear and simple language. Full of original findings and illuminating frameworks, its comprehensive and integrated descriptions take our NLP tradecraft to a whole new level of understanding.