Introduction to Natural Language Processing

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Take your Python skills to the next level! Learn how to process, filter, and analyze texts, extract key terms, generate your own content, and perform simple text summarization.
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Dive into Python's tools for text data processing. Gain experience working with authentic projects addressing fundamental tasks, such as summarization, text generation, or key terms extraction. Get to know the main NLP fields and discover the areas you would like to explore further. Progressing through different projects on this course will give you a chance to:

  • Understand the basic steps of raw text pre-processing;
  • Learn how to represent a text in a computer-readable form;
  • Work with popular NLP libraries;
  • Perform simple text compression for news articles;
  • Generate your own texts using Markov Models;
  • Practice with regular expressions to set templates for texts.

This course gives additional useful knowledge to Python developers to start using NLP techniques in their projects. It is also a good opportunity for anyone interested in exploring the possibility of becoming an NLP engineer in the future or simply gaining some knowledge about this field. If you're a linguist or philologist looking to transition into or experiment with computerized language processing, try this course!

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Data science
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Working with data
36 topics
Python libraries
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Basics
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Math
13 topics
Algorithms and data structures
11 topics
Object-oriented programming
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Code quality
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Text Generator

Machine learning is getting crazy smart these days. You've probably read texts or scripts written by machine learning algorithms, some of them even mimicking styles of certain people! If you ever wondered how it works and what are the secrets behind machine learning, this project is for you! You will have a chance to understand and implement a simple text generator using Markov chains.

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Simple Text Summarization

The modern world is rapid and dynamic, and every day people read a lot of news about politics, science, entertainment industry, programming, and so on. When there is so much information to digest, it gets really hard to deal with all of it! In this project, you will get familiar with something that might help: simple text summarization technique. This method extracts the most important sentences from the given text and is a great baseline for further experiments with other summarization approaches.

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Viacheslav Shalisko avatar
Viacheslav Shalisko
2 months ago
An important course that covers tokenization, lemmatization, vectorization, Levenstain distance, and other fundamental aspects of natural language processing. It does not cover LLMs in any way, but instead focuses on the core concepts and basics.
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Mauro Gonçalves
3 months ago
This course was very useful and practical. I learned how to solve problems step by step using Python, from basic file handling and text processing to web scraping, machine learning concepts, and natural language processing.I liked that the projects were hands-on and required real coding, testing, d ...
Raman But-Husaim avatar
Raman But-Husaim
2 years ago
An interesting course that gives an introduction to NLP. It covers a whole range of topics including Python as a programming language, regular expressions, fundamental NLP topics (lemmatization, stemming, embeddings, text similarity, n-gram models, etc.) and algorithms (bag-of-words, n-gram, euclidi ...

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