Introduction

Welcome to the "Natural Language Processing and Text Analytics" course. This comprehensive 5-day program is designed to equip participants with the fundamental concepts and practical skills necessary for understanding and implementing natural language processing (NLP) techniques and text analytics. Through a blend of theoretical insights and hands-on activities, participants will gain proficiency in various NLP tools and methodologies that are transforming industries today.

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental concepts of natural language processing and text analytics.
• Work with popular NLP libraries and frameworks for text analysis.
• Analyze and process large datasets using advanced NLP techniques.
• Develop applications that leverage NLP for real-world scenarios.
• Explore emerging trends and research in the field of NLP.

Course Outlines

Day 1: Introduction to NLP and Text Analytics

• Overview of natural language processing and its applications.
• Introduction to text analytics and its importance in data science.
• Understanding language models and NLP pipelines.
• Setting up the Python environment for NLP.
• Hands-on: Analyzing textual data using basic NLP tools.

Day 2: Text Preprocessing Techniques

• Understanding text normalization and tokenization.
• Exploring stemming and lemmatization processes.
• Removing stopwords and handling punctuation.
• Dealing with categorical text data.
• Practical session: Preprocessing a dataset using Python.

Day 3: Feature Extraction and Representation

• Introduction to bag-of-words and TF-IDF models.
• Exploring word embeddings and vectorization techniques.
• Understanding topic modeling with LDA and LSA.
• Using advanced NLP models for feature extraction.
• Hands-on: Implementing feature extraction on a large dataset.

Day 4: Sentiment Analysis and Text Classification

• Overview of sentiment analysis methods and applications.
• Building text classifiers using machine learning techniques.
• Implementing sentiment analysis with popular NLP libraries.
• Evaluating and optimizing text classification models.
• Workshop: Developing an end-to-end sentiment analysis pipeline.

Day 5: Advanced NLP Applications and Future Trends

• Exploring chatbots and conversational agents.
• Understanding the role of NLP in AI and machine translation.
• Examining deep learning approaches in NLP, such as transformers.
• Discussing ethical considerations in NLP solutions.
• Closing session: Future trends and research directions in NLP.