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Getting Started with Natural Language Processing

Humans communicate with language, but computers communicate with data. Discover how to translate between the two in this course.

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    Beginner

  • Time to complete

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    1 hour

  • Prerequisites

    None

About this course

From your virtual assistant recommending a restaurant to that terrible autocorrect you sent your parents, natural language processing (NLP) is a rapidly growing presence in our lives. NLP is all about how computers work with human language. Don’t just use NLP tools — make them!

Skills you'll gain

  • Use basic text pre-processing techniques

  • Gain familiarity with various types of language models

  • Use topic modeling to understand a text

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