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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Comprehensive training outline

  1. Introduction to NLP
    • Grasping the basics of NLP
    • Overview of NLP Frameworks
    • Commercial uses of NLP
    • Extracting data from the web
    • Interacting with various APIs to fetch text data
    • Managing and storing text corpora, including content and relevant metadata
    • Benefits of Python and an NLTK crash course
  2. Practical Insights into Corpora and Datasets
    • The necessity of a corpus
    • Analyzing a corpus
    • Categories of data attributes
    • Various file formats for corpora
    • Preparation of datasets for NLP applications
  3. Comprehending Sentence Structure
    • Core components of NLP
    • Natural language understanding
    • Morphological analysis - stems, words, tokens, speech tags
    • Syntactic analysis
    • Semantic analysis
    • Managing ambiguity
  4. Text Data Preprocessing
    • Raw text corpora
      • Sentence tokenization
      • Stemming raw text
      • Lemmatizing raw text
      • Removing stop words
    • Raw sentence corpora
      • Word tokenization
      • Word lemmatization
    • Handling Term-Document/Document-Term matrices
    • Tokenizing text into n-grams and sentences
    • Customized and practical preprocessing
  5. Text Data Analysis
    • Fundamental NLP features
      • Parsers and parsing techniques
      • POS tagging and taggers
      • Named entity recognition
      • N-grams
      • Bag of words
    • Statistical aspects of NLP
      • Linear algebra concepts for NLP
      • Probabilistic theory in NLP
      • TF-IDF
      • Vectorization
      • Encoders and Decoders
      • Normalization
      • Probabilistic Models
    • Advanced feature engineering in NLP
      • Word2vec fundamentals
      • Components of the word2vec model
      • Underlying logic of the word2vec model
      • Extending the word2vec concept
      • Applications of the word2vec model
    • Case study: Applying bag of words for 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.)
    • Comparing and classifying documents using TFIDF, Jaccard, and cosine distance metrics
    • Document classification using Naïve Bayes and Maximum Entropy
  7. Identifying Key Text Elements
    • Dimensionality reduction: Principal Component Analysis, Singular Value Decomposition, 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
    • Applying part-of-speech tagging to identify people, places, and organizations
    • 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 modeling

Requirements

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

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