Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

If NLP hasn't been your forte, Natural Language Processing Fundamentals will make sure you set off to a steady start. This comprehensive guide will show you how to effectively use Python libraries and NLP concepts to solve various problems.

You'll be introduced to natural language processing and its applications through examples and exercises. This will be followed by an introduction to the initial stages of solving a problem, which includes problem definition, getting text data, and preparing it for modeling. With exposure to concepts like advanced natural language processing algorithms and visualization techniques, you'll learn how to create applications that can extract information from unstructured data and present it as impactful visuals. Although you will continue to learn NLP-based techniques, the focus will gradually shift to developing useful applications. In these sections, you'll understand how to apply NLP techniques to answer questions as can be used in chatbots.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to accomplish a varied range of assignments ranging from identifying the most suitable type of NLP task for solving a problem to using a tool like spacy or gensim for performing sentiment analysis. The course will easily equip you with the knowledge you need to build applications that interpret human language.

About the Author

Dwight Gunning is a data scientist at FINRA, a financial services regulator in the US. He has extensive experience in Python-based machine learning and hands-on experience with the most popular NLP tools such as NLTK, gensim, and spacy.

Sohom Ghosh is a passionate data detective with expertise in Natural Language Processing. He has publications in several international conferences and journals.

Anthony Ng has spent almost 10 years in the education sector covering topics such as algorithmic trading, financial data analytics, investment, and portfolio management and more. He has worked in various financial institutions and has assisted Quantopian to conduct Algorithmic Trading Workshops in Singapore since 2016. He has also presented in QuantCon Singapore 2016 and 2017. He is passionate about finance, data science and Python and enjoys researching, teaching and sharing knowledge. He holds a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from NUS Singapore and MBA and Bcom from Otago University.