Select Topics in Python: Natural Language Processing

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Select Topics in Python: Natural Language Processing

This course is part of Select Topics in Python Specialization

Instructors: Mohit Chandarana

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Analyze text in a variety of ways
Leverage the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) platform
Build a chatbot

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Tools you'll learn

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Taught in English

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This course is part of the Select Topics in Python Specialization

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There are 3 modules in this course

Code and run your first NLP program in minutes without installing anything!

This course is designed for learners who have some experience with Python but are a novice to NLP. The modules in this course cover processing and analyzing text; analyzing speech, syntax, and semantics; and building a chatbot. To allow for a truly hands-on, self-paced learning experience, this course is video-free. Assignments contain short explanations with images and runnable code examples with suggested edits to explore code examples further, building a deeper understanding by doing. You’ll benefit from instant feedback from a variety of assessment items along the way, gently progressing from quick understanding checks (multiple choice, fill in the blank, and un-scrambling code blocks) to slowly building features, resulting in large coding projects at the end of the course.

Welcome to Week 1 of the Select Topics in Python: Natural Language Processing course. These assignments cover the basics of NLP and the NLTK library, pre-processing, processing, and analyzing text. The module ends with graded coding exercises.

What's included

6 readings5 app items

6 readingsTotal 14 minutes

Navigating Codio Assignments5 minutes
How to Reset an Assignment in Codio5 minutes
Getting Started (optional download)1 minute
Pre-Processing Text (optional download)1 minute
Parsing Text (optional download)1 minute
Analyzing Text (optional download)1 minute

5 app itemsTotal 125 minutes

Codio: Getting Started20 minutes
Codio: Pre-Processing Text20 minutes
Codio: Parsing Text20 minutes
Codio: Analyzing Text20 minutes
Codio: Coding Exercises45 minutes

Welcome to Week 2 of the Select Topics in Python: Natural Language Processing course. These assignments cover how to convert natural language into numerical representations that enable you to compute the similarity between provided text, and how to use a pre-trained language model. The module ends with graded coding exercises.

What's included

6 readings5 app items

6 readingsTotal 14 minutes

Navigating Codio Assignments5 minutes
How to Reset an Assignment in Codio5 minutes
Word Frequency Analysis: Bag of Words (optional download)1 minute
Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (optional download)1 minute
Text Similarity Metrics (optional download)1 minute
Pre-Trained Language Models (optional download)1 minute

5 app itemsTotal 125 minutes

Codio: Word Frequency Analysis: Bag of Words20 minutes
Codio: Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency20 minutes
Codio: Text Similarity Metrics20 minutes
Codio: Pre-Trained Language Models20 minutes
Codio: Coding Exercises45 minutes

Welcome to Week 3 of the Select Topics in Python: Natural Language Processing course. These assignments cover the basics about how chatbots work and will create a series of chatbots - ranging from a simple, hard-coded chatbot in Python to a more sophisticated open domain chatbot that uses a pre-trained language model. The module ends with graded coding exercises.

What's included

5 readings4 app items

5 readingsTotal 13 minutes

Navigating Codio Assignments5 minutes
How to Reset an Assignment in Codio5 minutes
The Simple Bot (optional download)1 minute
The API Bot (optional download)1 minute
Pretrained Model (optional download)1 minute

4 app itemsTotal 120 minutes

Codio: The Simple Bot25 minutes
Codio: The API Bot25 minutes
Codio: Pretrained Model25 minutes
Codio: Coding Exercises45 minutes

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