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Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python

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Learn fundamental natural language processing techniques using Python and how to apply them to extract insights from real-world text data.

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Course Description

In this course, you'll learn natural language processing (NLP) basics, such as how to identify and separate words, how to extract topics in a text, and how to build your own fake news classifier. You'll also learn how to use basic libraries such as NLTK, alongside libraries which utilize deep learning to solve common NLP problems. This course will give you the foundation to process and parse text as you move forward in your Python learning.
  1. 1

    Regular expressions & word tokenization

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    This chapter will introduce some basic NLP concepts, such as word tokenization and regular expressions to help parse text. You'll also learn how to handle non-English text and more difficult tokenization you might find.

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    Introduction to regular expressions
    50 xp
    Which pattern?
    50 xp
    Practicing regular expressions: re.split() and re.findall()
    100 xp
    Introduction to tokenization
    50 xp
    Word tokenization with NLTK
    100 xp
    More regex with re.search()
    100 xp
    Advanced tokenization with NLTK and regex
    50 xp
    Choosing a tokenizer
    50 xp
    Regex with NLTK tokenization
    100 xp
    Non-ascii tokenization
    100 xp
    Charting word length with NLTK
    50 xp
    Charting practice
    100 xp
  2. 2

    Simple topic identification

    This chapter will introduce you to topic identification, which you can apply to any text you encounter in the wild. Using basic NLP models, you will identify topics from texts based on term frequencies. You'll experiment and compare two simple methods: bag-of-words and Tf-idf using NLTK, and a new library Gensim.

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    Named-entity recognition

    This chapter will introduce a slightly more advanced topic: named-entity recognition. You'll learn how to identify the who, what, and where of your texts using pre-trained models on English and non-English text. You'll also learn how to use some new libraries, polyglot and spaCy, to add to your NLP toolbox.

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Katharine Jarmul runs a data analysis company called kjamistan that specializes in helping companies analyze data and training others on data analysis best practices, particularly with Python. She has been using Python for 8 years for a variety of data work -- including telling stories at major national newspapers, building large scale aggregation software, making decisions based on customer analytics, and marketing spend and advising new ventures on the competitive landscape.
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  • VIGNESH A.
    6 months

    Really good exercises to learn in depth about NLP

  • Mrinal B.
    11 months

    Excellent course for the beginner

  • Alexandr C.
    about 1 year

    I liked this course and topics was covered in it. Tutor has nice speed and voice, and topics was excellent explained and followed with good examples. I also found few unknown and useful libraries for making NLP preprocessing simpler and faster.

  • Ezequiel A.
    about 1 year

    The course requires no prior experience in NLP. Great introduction into this field, touching main methods and Python libraries.

  • Dierk P.
    about 1 year

    Very clear speaker, enjoyed presentations.

"Really good exercises to learn in depth about NLP"

VIGNESH A.

"Excellent course for the beginner"

Mrinal B.

"I liked this course and topics was covered in it. Tutor has nice speed and voice, and topics was excellent explained and followed with good examples. I also found few unknown and useful libraries for making NLP preprocessing simpler and faster."

Alexandr C.

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