Natural Language Processing (NLP) Courses and Certifications

Graham Neubig

CMU Advanced NLP: Document-Level Modeling

Explore neural methods for modeling long documents, including recurrent and transformer architectures, coreference resolution, and discourse parsing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Graham Neubig

CMU Advanced NLP: Pre-training Methods

Explore pre-training methods for advanced NLP, including multi-task learning, sentence embeddings, BERT variants, and alternative language-modeling objectives.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Graham Neubig

Neural Nets for NLP 2021 - Multilingual Learning

Explores multilingual NLP through parameter sharing, adapters, crosslingual transfer, annotation projection, and active learning across languages.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Graham Neubig

Neural Nets for NLP 2021 - Machine Reading with Neural Nets

Explore how neural networks encode context and perform multi-hop reasoning for machine reading and question answering, including span selection and adversarial datasets.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

BasisTech

Combating Misinformation with Human Language Technology - HLTCon Keynote

A look at how human language technology can trace online influence campaigns while accounting for context, ambiguous intent, and unreliable information.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

BasisTech

The Ubiquitous Role of Data in Human Language Technology Deployments

A VISTA approach to moving human language technology from research to deployment, with relevant, well-annotated data supporting every stage of the process.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Strange Loop Conference

Comedy Writing With Small Generative Models

A writer traces text generation from phone predictive text to transformers, showing how model design shapes output in comedy projects.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Detect and Understand Fake News

Demonstrates a machine learning pipeline for detecting fake news, from web scraping and preprocessing through classification and results.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

echohive

Using Python to Search and Analyze Text in Library of Babel with GPT

Recreates part of the Library of Babel, then compares linguistic and LLM-based methods for finding meaningful sentences.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Anyscale

Efficient Expert Witness Profiling with Ray: Automated Key Phrase Extraction from Legal Documents

A Ray-based pipeline extracts and clusters phrases from caselaw documents to profile expert witnesses, with reported speedups at each processing stage.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UofU Data Science

Language Modeling - Fundamentals and Applications

A lecture on language modeling, accompanied by presentation slides.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UofU Data Science

Tokenization and Morphology in Natural Language Processing

Explore how tokenization and morphological structure shape the analysis of language.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UofU Data Science

Introduction to Language Modeling: From N-grams to Neural Networks

From n-gram to neural language models, this lecture traces the shift beyond static embeddings and bag-of-words toward transformers and RLHF.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UofU Data Science

Logistic Regression and Natural Language Processing - Tokenization and BPE

The lecture moves from logistic regression to linguistics-informed tokenization, ending with byte-pair encoding.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

UofU Data Science

Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Course Overview

An introduction to NLP that traces its history and examines a standard NLP pipeline, including how NLP differs from machine learning.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video