Natural Language Processing

The Natural Language Processing (NLP) course by IBM offered through Udacity introduces learners to the fundamental concepts and techniques used to enable computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language. NLP is an important subfield of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that focuses on bridging the gap between human communication and computer understanding.

In this course, students learn how text data can be processed and analyzed using computational methods. The program begins with the basics of text processing, including tokenization, stop-word removal, stemming, and lemmatization. These preprocessing techniques prepare raw text data for further analysis and modeling. The course also introduces key concepts such as part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing, which help computers identify grammatical structures and important entities within text.