Month 6: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Month 6: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Week 1: Text Processing and Feature Extraction

  • Day 1: Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Day 2: Text Processing: Tokenization, Stemming, Lemmatization
  • Day 3: Text Feature Extraction: Bag of Words, TF-IDF
  • Day 4: Word Embeddings: Word2Vec, GloVe
  • Day 5: Practical application and a mini-project

Week 2: Text Classification and Sentiment Analysis

  • Day 1: Introduction to Text Classification and Sentiment Analysis
  • Day 2: Naive Bayes Classifier for Text Classification
  • Day 3: Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Text Classification (SVM, Random Forest)
  • Day 4: Sentiment Analysis: Lexicon-based approach, Machine Learning approach
  • Day 5: Practical application and a mini-project

Week 3: Sequence Models and Attention Mechanisms

  • Day 1: Sequence Models: Introduction to RNNs, LSTMs, GRUs
  • Day 2: Bidirectional and Deep RNNs for sequence prediction
  • Day 3: Introduction to Attention Mechanisms
  • Day 4: Implementing Attention in sequence models
  • Day 5: Practical application and a mini-project

Week 4: Transformers and Pretrained Language Models (BERT, GPT, etc.)

  • Day 1: Introduction to Transformers and the Transformer Architecture
  • Day 2: Understanding Self-Attention and Positional Encoding
  • Day 3: Introduction to BERT: Architecture, Training, and Applications
  • Day 4: Introduction to GPT: Architecture, Training, and Applications
  • Day 5: Practical application and a mini-project