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1.1 hours · Self-paced
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Practical NLP Projects & Case Studies is a hands-on, industry-focused course designed to bridge the gap between theoretical Natural Language Processing concepts and real-world implementation. The course guides learners through end-to-end NLP system development, covering text preprocessing, representation techniques, classification, named entity recognition, clustering, information retrieval, language modeling, question answering, conversational AI, summarization, social media analytics, and production deployment. Emphasis is placed on practical experimentation, model evaluation, scalability, ethical considerations, and system integration. Through case studies and applied assessments, students build robust, production-ready NLP solutions that address real business challenges. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to design, implement, evaluate, and deploy intelligent language-driven applications with confidence and professional rigor.

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Curriculum

13
sections
13
lectures
1h 8m
total

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Exciting Journey Ahead: Discover What Awaits in This Course!

Chapter 1: Foundations of Practical NLP

  1. NLP Applications in Industry
  2. Text Preprocessing Techniques (Tokenization, Lemmatization, Cleaning)
  3. Working with Text Data Formats (CSV, JSON, APIs)
  4. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) for Text
  5. Setting Up NLP Development Environment (Python, Jupyter, Libraries)

Chapter 2: Text Representation Techniques

  1. Bag of Words (BoW)
  2. TF-IDF Vectorization
  3. Word Embeddings (Word2Vec, GloVe)
  4. Contextual Embeddings (BERT Basics)
  5. Feature Engineering for Text Models

Chapter 3: Text Classification Projects

  1. Spam Detection System
  2. Sentiment Analysis for Product Reviews
  3. News Topic Classification
  4. Toxic Comment Detection
  5. Model Evaluation Metrics (Accuracy, F1, ROC-AUC)

Chapter 4: Named Entity Recognition (NER) Case Studies

  1. Rule-Based vs ML-Based NER
  2. Custom NER Model Training
  3. Resume Information Extraction
  4. Healthcare Entity Recognition
  5. Evaluation & Error Analysis for NER

Chapter 5: Text Clustering & Topic Modeling

  1. K-Means for Document Clustering
  2. Hierarchical Clustering for Text
  3. Topic Modeling with LDA
  4. Dynamic Topic Modeling
  5. Visualizing Topics and Clusters

Chapter 6: Information Retrieval & Search Systems

  1. Building a Basic Search Engine
  2. Inverted Index Implementation
  3. Semantic Search with Embeddings
  4. Ranking Algorithms (BM25 Basics)
  5. Case Study: FAQ Retrieval System

Chapter 7: Sequence Modeling & Language Models

  1. N-gram Language Models
  2. RNN & LSTM for Text Generation
  3. Transformer Architecture Overview
  4. Fine-Tuning Pretrained Models
  5. Case Study: Auto-Complete System

Chapter 8: Question Answering Systems

  1. Extractive Question Answering
  2. Building QA with Transformers
  3. Context Passage Retrieval
  4. Evaluating QA Systems (EM, F1)
  5. Case Study: Customer Support Bot

Chapter 9: Chatbots & Conversational AI

  1. Rule-Based Chatbots
  2. Intent Classification & Slot Filling
  3. Dialogue State Management
  4. Retrieval vs Generative Chatbots
  5. Case Study: E-commerce Chatbot

Chapter 10: Text Summarization Projects

  1. Extractive Summarization Techniques
  2. Abstractive Summarization with Transformers
  3. Summarizing News Articles
  4. Meeting Transcript Summarization
  5. Evaluation Metrics (ROUGE, BLEU Basics)

Chapter 11: NLP for Social Media Analytics

  1. Hashtag & Trend Analysis
  2. Fake News Detection
  3. Emotion & Sarcasm Detection
  4. Social Network Text Mining
  5. Case Study: Brand Sentiment Dashboard

Chapter 12: Productionizing NLP Systems

  1. Model Deployment with APIs
  2. Building NLP Pipelines
  3. Model Monitoring & Drift Detection
  4. Scaling NLP with Cloud Services
  5. Capstone Project: End-to-End NLP Solution

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Who is this course for?

This course is designed for aspiring data scientists, AI engineers, and software developers who want hands-on experience with Natural Language Processing. It’s ideal for learners familiar with Python and basic machine learning, aiming to build real-world NLP applications, solve practical problems, and gain industry-relevant skills through projects and case studies.

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