By the end of this course, learners will be able to explain core Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts, preprocess and normalize textual data, extract meaningful features, and apply machine learning algorithms to solve real-world language-based problems.

Apply Natural Language Processing Techniques in Python
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Explain core NLP concepts and preprocess text using tokenization, normalization, stemming, and lemmatization.
Extract meaningful textual features and prepare data for machine learning models.
Apply NLP techniques and ML algorithms to solve real-world language-based problems.
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There are 2 modules in this course
This module introduces the fundamental concepts of Natural Language Processing (NLP), covering the nature of human language data, core NLP terminology, essential preprocessing techniques, and the setup of an NLP development environment to support practical experimentation.
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This module focuses on advanced text preprocessing workflows, including tokenization, stopword removal, stemming, and lemmatization, and concludes with the integration of machine learning algorithms for building effective NLP models.
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6 videos3 assignments
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