Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) Deep Learning

Deep learning methods are achieving state-of-the-art results to challenging machine learning problems, such as identifying and describing photos and translating text from one language to another. In this highly-focused course, we ll cut through the excess math, research papers, and patchwork descriptions about natural language processing (NLP) to dive deep into the technology so you gain real-world skills you can immediately leverage on the job.

Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert Deep Learning practitioner, using clear explanations and standard Python libraries, you will explore a step-by-step of what natural language processing is, the promise of deep learning in the field, how to clean and prepare text data for modeling, and how to develop deep learning models for your own natural language processing projects.

Foundations

• Natural Language Processing
• Deep Learning
• Promise of Deep Learning for Natural Language
• How to Develop Deep Learning Models With Keras

Data Preparation

• How to Clean Text Manually and with NLTK
• How to Prepare Text Data with scikit-learn
• How to Prepare Text Data With Keras

Bag-of-Words

• The Bag-of-Words Model
• Prepare Movie Review Data for Sentiment Analysis
• Neural Bag-of-Words Model for Sentiment Analysis

Word Embeddings

• The Word Embedding Model
• How to Develop Word Embeddings with Gensim
• How to Learn and Load Word Embeddings in Keras

Text Classification

• Neural Models for Document Classification
• Develop an Embedding + CNN Model
• Develop an n-gram CNN Model for Sentiment Analysis

Language Modeling

• Neural Language Modeling
• Develop a Character-Based Neural Language Model
• How to Develop a Word-Based Neural Language Model
• Develop a Neural Language Model for Text Generation

Image Captioning

• Neural Image Caption Generation
• Neural Network Models for Caption Generation
• Load and Use a Pre-Trained Object Recognition Model
• How to Evaluate Generated Text With the BLEU Score
• How to Prepare a Photo Caption Dataset For Modeling
• Develop a Neural Image Caption Generation Model

Neural Machine Translation

• Neural Machine Translation
• Encoder-Decoder Models for NMT
• Configure Encoder-Decoder Models for NMT
• How to Develop a Neural Machine Translation Model

Before attending this course, you should have:

• Strong Python skills
• Prior working experience with Keras is useful
• Ability to navigate the Linux command line
• Basic knowledge of Linux editors (such as VI/nano) for editing code

Experienced Developers, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, and others who seek to work with Natural Language Processing.