Natural Language Processing (NLP)

What is NLP

A practical view of how computers handle human language.

Goal:

Learn how computers process and understand human language

3Lessons

6Micro-lessons

BeginnerDifficulty

Lesson 1

Seeing language as input a system must handle.

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Micro lesson 1

Text enters the system

Micro lesson 2

Why raw text is a problem

Lesson 2

How text moves through processing stages.

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Micro lesson 1

Breaking text apart

Micro lesson 2

Cleaning and normalization

Lesson 3

How systems approximate meaning.

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Finding patterns

Micro lesson 2

When understanding fails