Introduction to NLP

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Intermediate
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About the Course

A comprehensive introduction to NLP, from basic text processing to advanced models like RNNs and transformers. Through hands-on projects with popular libraries, learn to build and evaluate solutions for tasks such as text classification, sentiment analysis, and machine translation.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the architecture and working principles of transformers and attention mechanisms.
  • Implement transformer encoders and decoders from scratch.
  • Develop and fine-tune large language models like BERT and GPT for various NLP tasks.
  • Evaluate and deploy LLMs effectively in real-world applications.
  • Utilize RAG techniques to enhance the capabilities of LLMs in information retrieval and generation tasks.

Curriculum

  • Module 1: Logistic Regression

    Overview:

    This module demonstrates the fundamentals of logistic regression and its application in binary classification tasks.

    Topics to Cover:

    • What is Logistic Regression?
    • Understand the predictions of Logistic Regression
    • Implement a Logistic Regression

  • Module 2: Neural Networks

    Overivew:

    This module dives into neural network (NN) mathematics and implementation, including hands-on work with PyTorch.

    Topics to Cover:

    • Mathematical calculations involved in Neural Network
    • Creating NN from scratch
    • Implement NN with PyTorch

  • Module 3: NLP Basics

    Overview:

    This module teaches the basic text processing techniques using NLTK and Spacy, along with regular expressions.

    Topics to Cover:

    • What is NLTK?
    • Introduction to text processing
    • Traditional NLP model using Spacy
    • Application of Regular Expression

  • Module 4: Language Representation

    Overview:

    This module explores various techniques for representing text data, including TF-IDF, word co-occurrence, GloVe, and Word2Vec.

    Topics to Cover:

    • Application of various language processing
    • Apply Ttext processing techniques
    • What is Word2Vec?
    • Work with Gensim Models

  • Module 5: Traditional ML for NLP

    Overview:

    This module examines various NLP tasks and traditional machine learning algorithms for solving them.

    Topics to Cover:

    • Understand the different NLP tasks
    • Apply different encoding methods
  • Module 6: Neural Network for NLP

    Overview:

    This module studies the application of RNNs, LSTMs, and GRUs in NLP tasks, including their architecture and functionality.

    Topics to Cover:

    • Understanding the basic NN and RNN models
    • Applying single-layered and multi-layered RNN
    • Understand LSTM and GRU
    • Apply LSTM and GRU model with single and multi-layers

  • Module 7: Bidirectional LSTM for NLP

    Overview:

    This module teaches about bidirectional LSTMs and their advantages for NLP applications.

    Topics to Cover:

    • Understand Bidirectional LSTM models
    • Apply different encoding methods to Bidirectional LSTM models

  • Module 8: Evaluating NLP Models

    Overview:

    This module examines evaluation metrics for different NLP tasks, including loss functions and performance measures.

    Topics to Cover:

    • What are the evaluation metrics?
    • Different metrics and their applications
    • Examine various many to many metrics

Tools

Python
Jupyter
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