Master Natural Language Processing
Dive into the world of NLP with our comprehensive course, designed to equip you with the skills to build intelligent language-based applications.
This Course Includes
- 12 Sessions
- 40 Hours of Hands-on Labs
- Real-World NLP Projects
- Online Coding Environments
- Tools: Python, NLTK, spaCy, Transformers
- Lectures and Practical Exercises
- Access to Cloud NLP APIs
Things You'll Learn
- Fundamentals of NLP and linguistics
- Text preprocessing and feature extraction
- Building sentiment analysis models
- Creating chatbots and language models
- Deploying NLP solutions in production
Course Content
Introduction to NLP
- What is NLP? History and applications.
- Key concepts: Tokenization, stemming, lemmatization.
- Setting up your environment: Python, NLTK, spaCy.
- Hands-on: Tokenizing and analyzing a text corpus.
- Linguistic basics: Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
- Real-world example: How Google uses NLP.
- Exploring text datasets: Cleaning and preparation.
- Practical exercise: Building a word frequency analyzer.
Text Preprocessing and Analysis
- Advanced preprocessing: Stop words, regex, POS tagging.
- Feature extraction: Bag of Words, TF-IDF.
- Hands-on: Extracting features with scikit-learn.
- Text visualization: Word clouds and frequency plots.
- Statistical methods: N-grams and co-occurrence.
- Lab: Analyzing sentiment in social media data.
- Working with large datasets: Optimization tips.
- Case study: Sentiment analysis for movie reviews.
Machine Learning for NLP
- Intro to ML: Supervised vs. unsupervised learning.
- Text classification: Naive Bayes, SVM, and more.
- Hands-on: Building a spam detector.
- Topic modeling: LDA and NMF techniques.
- Evaluating models: Precision, recall, F1-score.
- Lab: Classifying news articles by category.
- Handling imbalanced datasets in NLP.
- Real-world project: Customer feedback analysis.
Deep Learning and Transformers
- Neural networks basics: RNNs, LSTMs, GRUs.
- Word embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText.
- Hands-on: Training embeddings with Gensim.
- Transformers: BERT, GPT, and attention mechanisms.
- Fine-tuning pre-trained models with Hugging Face.
- Lab: Building a text summarizer with BERT.
- Handling multilingual NLP tasks.
- Case study: ChatGPT’s architecture explained.
Building and Deploying NLP Applications
- Creating chatbots with Rasa or Dialogflow.
- Hands-on: Deploying a chatbot to a web app.
- Named Entity Recognition (NER) with spaCy.
- Scaling NLP models with cloud services (AWS, GCP).
- Monitoring and improving model performance.
- Lab: Building a Q&A system with Transformers.
- Ethical considerations: Bias and fairness in NLP.
- Final project: End-to-end NLP solution.
Why Choose This Course?
- Taught by NLP experts from industry
- Hands-on projects with real datasets
- Flexible online learning with live support
- Covers cutting-edge tools and techniques
- Prepares you for NLP careers