Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

Natural language processing is becoming a very hot topic in both industrial practices and academic research. It finds many real-world applications such as information extraction, sentiment analysis, machine translation, question answering, and summarisation. Hence, it is an important subject to prepare you to cope with the huge amount of unstructured information in text, for example, in web pages and business documents. This course covers the basic concepts and computational methods for natural language processing. Techniques covered should be biased toward those generally accepted established traditional practices recommended by practitioners.

This course will equip you with the basic concepts and techniques in natural language processing on different levels including words, syntax, and semantics. You will be able to apply the techniques to real-world problems and conduct evaluations of your solutions.