Natural Language Processing with Machine Learning in Python

Welcome!

This course is carefully designed for you to learn the fundamentals of Natural Language Processing and then to advance gradually and to solve complex NLP problems using Machine Learning. Everything taught in this course is completely hands on. So you will be able to learn things by doing them yourself.

You don’t need prior experience in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning or even Python. But you should be comfortable with programming, and should be familiar with at least one programming language. Python is by far one of the best programming language to work on Machine Learning problems and it applies here as well. If you’re new to Python, don’t worry, I’ll explain what you need to know, just before using it.

In this course, we use Google Colab to run our code. So, you don’t have to install or configure anything in your machine. It doesn’t matter what’s your OS or hardware spec, as long as you have access to the Internet. But if you’re interested, the same code can be run on Jupyter Notebook, installed in your machine.

First we will explore the basic concepts of Natural Language Processing, such as tokenization, stemming and lemmatization using NLTK. You will learn more than one way to get these things done, so you can understand the pros and cons of different approaches. Then we will study some pre–processing techniques for removing stop–words, whitespaces, punctuations, symbols, new lines, etc.