Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Course Description

Unlock the fascinating world of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and discover how computers understand, interpret, and generate human language. This intensive 3-week program is designed to provide you with a fundamental understanding of NLP concepts, techniques, and its widespread applications in today’s AI-driven world.

Are you curious about the technology behind virtual assistants, spam filters, or machine translation? This course will demystify how machines process and derive meaning from text and speech. You’ll explore essential topics such as text preprocessing, language modeling, sentiment analysis, and text classification. Our expert instructors will lead engaging live sessions, offering real-time interaction and immediate answers to your questions. Plus, with access to recorded video lectures, you can learn at your own pace and revisit complex ideas anytime.

Whether you’re a budding data scientist, a software developer looking to add intelligent language features to your applications, or simply an enthusiast eager to understand the power of language AI, this “Introduction to Natural Language Processing” course will equip you with the foundational knowledge to navigate this exciting field.

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Course Outline (Topics)

Topic 1: Foundations of Natural Language Processing

• What is Natural Language Processing? Definition and its role in AI.
• History and Evolution of NLP.
• Core challenges in NLP: Ambiguity, context, and semantics.
• Key NLP applications: Sentiment analysis, machine translation, chatbots, spam detection.
• Understanding the NLP pipeline: From raw text to meaningful insights.

Topic 2: Text Preprocessing and Basic NLP Techniques

• Text Cleaning: Tokenization, normalization (lower-casing, stemming, lemmatization).
• Removing Stop Words and Punctuation.
• Vectorization techniques: Bag-of-Words (BoW) and Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF).
• Introduction to N-grams and their use in language modeling.
• Exploring common NLP libraries (e.g., NLTK, SpaCy).

Topic 3: Text Classification and Sentiment Analysis

• Introduction to Text Classification: Categorizing documents or text snippets.
• Supervised learning for text classification: Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression.
• Understanding Sentiment Analysis: Detecting positive, negative, or neutral opinions.
• Techniques for sentiment analysis: Lexicon-based and machine learning approaches.
• Practical applications of text classification and sentiment analysis.