The document discusses applying a 4-step recipe of embed, encode, attend, predict to natural language processing tasks like text classification and similarity. It describes the steps as embedding words into vectors, encoding sentences with LSTMs or GRUs, attending to parts of the encoding with different attention mechanisms, and predicting outputs. Examples show applying this pipeline to document classification, document similarity, and sentence similarity. Different attention types - matrix, context vector, and matrix multiplication - are discussed. The recipe provides a principled deep learning approach to NLP problems.