Course: Advanced Natural Language Processing

In recent times, natural language processing (NLP) has seen many advancements, most of which are in deep learning models. NLP as a problem is very complicated, and deep learning models can handle that scale and complication with many different variations of neural network architecture. Deep learning also has a broad spectrum of frameworks that supports NLP problem solving out-of-the-box. Explore the basics of deep learning and different architectures for NLP-specific problems. Examine other use cases for deep learning NLP across industries. Learn about various tools and frameworks used such as - Spacy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenNMT, etc. Investigate sentiment analysis and explore how to solve a problem using various deep learning steps and frameworks. Upon completing this course, you will be able to use the essential fundamentals of deep learning for NLP and outline its various industry use cases, frameworks, and fundamental sentiment analysis problems.

Natural language processing (NLP) is constantly evolving with cutting edge advancements in tools and approaches. Neural network architecture (NNA) supports this evolution by providing a method of processing language-based information to solve complex data-driven problems. Explore the basic NNAs relevant to NLP problems. Learn different challenges and use cases for single-layer perceptron, multi-layer perceptron, and RNNs. Analyze data and its distribution using pandas, graphs, and charts. Examine word vector representations using one-hot encodings, Word2vec, and GloVe and classify data using recurrent neural networks. After you have completed this course, you will be able to use a product classification dataset to implement neural networks for NLP problems.

In the journey to understand deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP), the subsequent iterations are memory-based networks, which are much more capable of handling extended context in languages. While basic neural networks are better than machine learning (ML) models, they still lack in more significant and large language data problems. In this course, you will learn about memory-based networks like gated recurrent unit (GRU) and long short-term memory (LSTM). Explore their architectures, variants, and where they work and fail for NLP. Then, consider their implementations using product classification data and compare different results to understand each architecture's effectiveness. Upon completing this course, you will have learned the basics of memory-based networks and their implementation in TensorFlow to understand the effect of memory and more extended context for NLP datasets.

The essential aspect of human intelligence is our learning processes, constantly augmented with the transfer of concepts and fundamentals. For example, as a child, we learn the basic alphabet, grammar, and words, and through the transfer of these fundamentals, we can then read books and communicate with people. This is what transfer learning helps us achieve in deep learning as well. This course will help you learn the fundamentals of transfer learning for NLP, its various challenges, and use cases. Explore various transfer learning models such as ELMo and ULMFiT. Upon completing this course, you will understand the transfer learning methodology of solving NLP problems and be able to experiment with various models in TensorFlow.

Get down to solving real-world GitHub bug prediction problems in this case study course. Examine the process of data and library loading and perform basic exploratory data analysis (EDA) including word count, label, punctuation, and stop word analysis. Explore how to clean and preprocess data in order to use vectorization and embeddings and use counter vector and term frequency-inverse document frequency (TFIDF) vectorization methods with visualizations. Finally, assess different classifiers like logistic regression, random forest, or AdaBoost. Upon completing this course, you will understand how to solve industry-level problems using deep learning methodology in the TensorFlow ecosystem.

With recent advancements in cheap GPU compute power and natural language processing (NLP) research, companies and researchers have introduced many powerful models and architectures that have taken NLP to new heights. In this course, learn about Transformer models like Bert and GPT and the maturity of AI in NLP areas due to these models. Next, examine the fundamentals of Transformer models and their architectures. Finally, discover the importance of attention mechanisms in the Transformer architecture and how they help achieve state-of-the-art results in NLP tasks. Upon completing this course, you'll be able to understand different aspects of Transformer architectures like the self-attention layer and encoder-decoder models.

In every domain of artificial intelligence, there is one algorithm that transforms the entire field into an industry-matured tool to be used across a broad spectrum of use cases. BERT is that algorithm for natural language processing (NLP). In this course, explore the fundamentals of BERT architecture, including variations, transfer learning capabilities, and best practices. Examine the Hugging Face library and its role in sentiment analysis problems. Practice model setup, pre-processing, sentiment classification training, and evaluating models using BERT. Finally, take a critical look to recognize the challenges of using BERT. Upon completing this course, you'll be able to demonstrate how to solve simple sentiment analysis problems.

Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models go beyond classifying and predicting text behavior to helping actually generate text. Imagine an algorithm that can produce articles, songs, books, or code - anything that humans can write. That is what GPT can help you achieve. In this course, discover the key concepts of language models for text generation and the primary features of GPT models. Next, focus on GPT-3 architecture. Then, explore few-shot learning and industry use cases and challenges for GPT. Finally, practice decoding methods with greedy search, beam search, and basic and advanced sampling methods. Upon completing this course, you will understand the fundamentals of the GPT model and how it enables text generation.

Translating from one language to another is a common task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The transformer model works by passing multiple words through a neural network simultaneously and is one of the newest models propelling a surge of progression, sometimes referred to as transformer AI. In this course, you will solve real-world machine translation problems, translating from English to French. Explore machine translation problem formulation, notebook setup, and data pre-processing. Then, learn to tokenize and vectorize data into a sequence of integers, where each integer represents the index of a word in a vocabulary. Discover transformer encoder-decoder and see how to produce input and output sequences. Finally, define the attention layer and assemble, train, and evaluate the translation model end to end. Upon completing this course, you will be able to solve industry-level problems using deep learning methodology in the TensorFlow ecosystem.

Keeping up with current events can be challenging, especially when you live or work in a country where you do not speak the language. Learning a new language can be difficult and time-consuming when you have a busy schedule. In this course, you will learn how to scrape news articles written in Arabic from websites, translate them into English, and then summarize them. First, focus on the overall architecture of your summarization application. Next, discover the Transformers library and explore its role in translation and summarization tasks. Then, create a user interface for the application using Gradio. Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to use an application to scrape data written in Arabic from any URL, translate it into English, and summarize it

In the Natural Language Processing lab, you will perform data pre-processing, use wordnet for Semantic Similarity, work with Machine Learning techniques, and implement word embedding for Deep Learning. You will also implement Deep Learning techniques, implement transfer learning, work with BERT, and use GPT for NLP.

Final Exam: Natural Language Processing will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the Skillsoft Aspire Natural Language Processing Journey.