
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Fundamentals with Python
Course Description
This industry-aligned course offers a comprehensive foundation in Natural Language Processing using Python. Designed for developers, analysts, and AI enthusiasts, it blends traditional techniques with cutting-edge deep learning practices. From text cleaning to neural machine translation and deployment, learners gain practical expertise through progressive modules, coding exercises, and a capstone project.
What You Will Learn
- Fundamentals of NLP and its importance in AI and business
- How to preprocess and clean messy, real-world text data
- Representing text using BoW, TF-IDF, Word Embeddings, and Transformers
- Text classification using ML and Deep Learning models
- Key NLP applications: NER, sentiment analysis, summarization, machine translation
- Hands-on use of NLTK, spaCy, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face, and TensorFlow/Keras
- Basics of deploying NLP models using Flask/FastAPI
Course Curriculum
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Introduction to NLP
- What is NLP? Why it matters in AI
- Use cases: Chatbots, Search Engines, Sentiment Analysis, Summarization
- NLP challenges: Ambiguity, sarcasm, domain shifts
- Tools overview: NLTK, spaCy, Gensim, Hugging Face Transformers
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Text Preprocessing & Cleaning
- Tokenization, Lemmatization, and Stemming
- Stop-word removal and noise filtering
- POS tagging, Named Entity Recognition (NER)
- Handling messy real-world text (e.g., social media, typos, emojis)
- Regular expressions and spelling correction
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Text Representation
- Bag of Words (BoW) and TF-IDF
- Introduction to Word Embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
- Using pre-trained embeddings in Python
- Conceptual intro to Transformer-based embeddings (BERT, DistilBERT)
- Topic Modeling (LDA, NMF)
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Machine Learning for NLP
- Supervised Learning for Text
- Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Trees
- Evaluation metrics: Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1
- Cross-validation and hyperparameter tuning
- Mini Project: Sentiment Classification with Python
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Deep Learning in NLP
- Neural Networks 101: RNN, LSTM, GRU
- Introduction to Attention and Transformers
- Using Hugging Face Transformers for inference
- Project: Deep Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis
- Neural Machine Translation (NMT) Basics
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Real-World NLP Applications
- Named Entity Recognition (NER) pipeline
- Extractive and Abstractive Summarization (TextRank vs Transformer-based)
- Zero-shot classification and Transfer Learning in NLP
- Question Answering, Keyword Extraction
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Model Deployment (Optional Bonus)
- Exporting trained models
- Creating a REST API with Flask or FastAPI
- Deployment concepts: Docker, Streamlit, AWS/GCP overview
- Demonstration: Hosting a simple NLP model on a local server
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Capstone Project: End-to-End NLP Pipeline
Build a real-world NLP solution that includes:
- Data collection (from online or CSV)
- Preprocessing and exploratory text analysis
- Feature extraction using TF-IDF or embeddings
- Model building and evaluation (ML + Deep Learning)
- Optional: Deploy using Flask API
- Documentation + Portfolio Submission

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