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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Comprehensive training outline

  1. Introduction to NLP
    • Grasping the fundamentals of NLP
    • NLP Frameworks
    • Commercial use cases of NLP
    • Web data scraping
    • Retrieving text data via various APIs
    • Managing text corpora, including content and metadata storage
    • Benefits of Python and a quick NLTK overview
  2. Practical Understanding of a Corpus and Dataset
    • The necessity of a corpus
    • Corpus Analysis
    • Types of data attributes
    • Various file formats for corpora
    • Preparing datasets for NLP applications
  3. Understanding the Structure of a Sentences
    • Core NLP components
    • Natural language understanding
    • Morphological analysis - stems, words, tokens, speech tags
    • Syntactic analysis
    • Semantic analysis
    • Managing ambiguity
  4. Text data preprocessing
    • Corpus: raw text
      • Sentence tokenization
      • Stemming raw text
      • Lemmizing raw text
      • Removing stop words
    • Corpus: raw sentences
      • Word tokenization
      • Word lemmatization
    • Utilizing Term-Document/Document-Term matrices
    • Tokenizing text into n-grams and sentences
    • Practical and tailored preprocessing
  5. Analyzing Text data
    • Fundamental NLP features
      • Parsers and parsing techniques
      • POS tagging and taggers
      • Named entity recognition
      • N-grams
      • Bag of words
    • Statistical NLP features
      • Linear algebra concepts for NLP
      • Probabilistic theory in NLP
      • TF-IDF
      • Vectorization
      • Encoders and Decoders
      • Normalization
      • Probabilistic Models
    • Advanced feature engineering in NLP
      • Foundations of word2vec
      • Components of the word2vec model
      • The logic behind the word2vec model
      • Extending the word2vec concept
      • Applying the word2vec model
    • Case study: Bag of words application: automatic text summarization using simplified and true Luhn's algorithms
  6. Document Clustering, Classification and Topic Modeling
    • Document clustering and pattern mining (hierarchical clustering, k-means, etc.)
    • Document comparison and classification using TFIDF, Jaccard, and cosine distance
    • Document classification via Naïve Bayes and Maximum Entropy
  7. Identifying Important Text Elements
    • Dimensionality reduction: PCA, SVD, and non-negative matrix factorization
    • Topic modeling and information retrieval via Latent Semantic Analysis
  8. Entity Extraction, Sentiment Analysis and Advanced Topic Modeling
    • Positive vs. negative: measuring sentiment intensity
    • Item Response Theory
    • POS tagging applications: identifying people, places, and organizations in text
    • Advanced topic modeling: Latent Dirichlet Allocation
  9. Case studies
    • Analyzing unstructured user reviews
    • Sentiment classification and visualization of Product Review Data
    • Extracting usage patterns from search logs
    • Text classification
    • Topic modelling

Requirements

Familiarity with NLP principles and an understanding of how AI is applied in business contexts.

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