NLP and Deep Learning

NLP and Deep Learning

This course will teach you the algorithms, techniques and software used in natural language processing (NLP).

In this course you will learn about deep neural networks, and how to use them in processing text with Python (Natural Language Processing or NLP).

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Overview

In this course you will learn about deep neural networks (deep learning), and how to leverage them in processing, understanding and mining for insights from text.  We start with an introduction to neural networks and deep learning. We then dive into essentials of representation learning like word and document embeddings and then move onto more complex methodologies including convolutional neural networks and sequence models and deep transfer learning approaches including universal embeddings and transformers. Popular applications are also covered with hands-on tutorials and exercises including text classification, information extraction, recommenders, search, summarization, translation and more.

Intermediate Level Course
4-Week Course
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ACE + CAP Credit Eligible
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Learning Outcomes

In this course you will learn:

  • How to specify and run artificial neural networks and deep networks
  • How deep networks represent words as binary vectors
  • How to use recurrent neural networks for sequential learning (sequence-to-sequence modeling)
  • How to use attention models to improve predictive performance

Who Should Take This Course

Data scientists and aspiring data scientists.

Instructors

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Mr. Dipanjan Sarkar

Mr. Dipanjan Sarkar

Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar is a Data Science Lead, published author and has been recognized as a Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning by Google in 2019. He has also been recognized as one of the Top Ten Data Scientists in India, 2020 by a few leading technology magazines and publishing houses. Dipanjan has led advanced analytics initiatives working with several Fortune 500 companies like Applied Materials, Intel and Open Source organizations like Red Hat (now IBM). He primarily works on leveraging data science, machine learning and deep learning to build large- scale intelligent systems.

He holds a master of technology degree from IIIT Ban...

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Course Syllabus

Week 1

Introduction to Deep Learning and Representation Learning

  • Introduction to deep neural networks and deep learning
  • Applications of Deep Learning for NLP
  • Essential components of deep learning
    1. Types of models (especially for NLP)
    2. Layers, activation and loss functions 
    3. Gradient descent and Backpropagation
  • Representation Learning for Text Data
    1. Understanding Embeddings 
    2. Types of Embeddings 
    3. CBOW (Continuous Bag of Words) and SkipGram
    4. Word Embedding Models - Word2Vec, GloVe, FastText
    5. Obtaining document embeddings

 

Week 2

 Context Sensitive Learning: Convnets and Sequential Models

  • Convolutional Neural NetworksConvnets for NLP
    1. Convolutional Neural Networks
    2. 1D-CNNs for Text Classification
  • Sequential Models for NLP
    1. Recurrent Neural Networks
    2. Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs)
    3. Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs)
    4. Bi-directional LSTMs (Bi-LSTMs)
    5. Contextual Embeddings using BiLSTMs - ELMO
  • Sequence-to-Sequence Models for NLP
    1. Encoder-Decoder Models
    2. Applications of Encoder-Decoder Models

 

Week 3

Deep Transfer Learning for NLP

  • Transfer Learning
    1. Need and importance
    2. Methodologies
  • Pre-trained word embeddings
    1. Word2vec, GloVe, FastText
  • Universal Embeddings
    1. Neural net language model (NNLM)
    2. Universal Sentence Encoder
  • Transformers and Multi-task Learning
    1. Brief and types of transformers
    2. Advantages of pre-trained transformers
    3. Applications

 

Week 4

Attention, Transformers and Applications

  • Limitations of Sequential and Sequence-to-sequence models
  • Attention in sequential Models
  • Understanding Transformer Models
    1. Encoders and Decoders
    2. Self Attention and Multi-headed Attention
    3. Contextual and Pooled Embeddings
    4. BERT
  • Transformers Variants 
    1. Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) variants - Roberta, Albert, XLNet etc.
    2. Efficient Transformers with knowledge distillation - DistilBERT
    3. Generative Transformers - generative pre-training (GPT) family

 

 

Class Dates

2023

Jul 7, 2023 to Aug 4, 2023

Nov 10, 2023 to Dec 8, 2023

2024

Mar 8, 2024 to Apr 5, 2024

2025

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Prerequisites

You should be sufficiently familiar with Python to follow and use code examples (see suggested course below).  You should also be familiar with the neural net material covered in the predictive analytics course, below.

 

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Introduction to NLP and Text Mining

Introduction to NLP and Text Mining

In this course you will be introduced to the essential techniques of natural language processing (NLP) and text mining with Python.
Topic: Data Science, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Using Python | Skill: Intermediate, Advanced | Credit Options: ACE, CAP, CEU
Class Start Dates: May 12, 2023, Sep 8, 2023, Jan 12, 2024, May 10, 2024
Predictive Analytics 2 – Neural Nets and Regression with Python

Predictive Analytics 2 with Python – Neural Nets and Regression

As a continuation of Predictive Analytics 1, this course introduces to the basic concepts in predictive analytics, with a focus on Python, to visualize and explore predictive modeling.
Topic: Data Science, Analytics, Machine Learning, Prediction/Forecasting, SQL, Using Python | Skill: Introductory, Intermediate | Credit Options: ACE, CAP, CEU
Class Start Dates: Jul 7, 2023, Nov 10, 2023, Mar 8, 2024

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Introduction to NLP and Text Mining

Introduction to NLP and Text Mining

In this course you will be introduced to the essential techniques of natural language processing (NLP) and text mining with Python.
Topic: Data Science, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Using Python | Skill: Intermediate, Advanced | Credit Options: ACE, CAP, CEU
Class Start Dates: May 12, 2023, Sep 8, 2023, Jan 12, 2024, May 10, 2024

Additional Course Information

Organization of Course

This course takes place online at The Institute for 4 weeks. During each course week, you participate at times of your own choosing – there are no set times when you must be online. Course participants will be given access to a private discussion board. In class discussions led by the instructor, you can post questions, seek clarification, and interact with your fellow students and the instructor.

At the beginning of each week, you receive the relevant material, in addition to answers to exercises from the previous session. During the week, you are expected to go over the course materials, work through exercises, and submit answers. Discussion among participants is encouraged. The instructor will provide answers and comments, and at the end of the week, you will receive individual feedback on your homework answers.

Time Requirements

This is a 4-week course requiring 10-15 hours per week of review and study, at times of your choosing.

Homework

Homework in this course consists of coding exercises using Python.

 

Course Text

The text used for the practical work in this course is Text Analytics with Python (Apress, 2019) by Dipanjan Sarkar, chosen for its wealth of hands on Python illustrations and code.  The code for these illustrations is organized here:

https://github.com/dipanjanS/text-analytics-with-python/tree/master/New-Second-Edition

Note: this text is also used in the introductory course, Introduction to NLP and Text Mining

Software

The course uses Python.

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If you require a “Record of Course Completion” along with professional development credit in the form of Continuing Education Units (CEU’s), upon successfully completing the course, CEU’s and a record of course completion will be issued by The Institute upon your request.

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This course is recognized by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) as helpful preparation for the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) exam and can help CAP® analysts accrue Professional Development Units to maintain their certification.

ACE CREDIT | College Credit
This course has been evaluated by the American Council on Education (ACE) and is recommended for the upper-division baccalaureate degree, 2 semester hours in computer science, computer information systems, or cyber security. Please note that the decision to accept specific credit recommendations is up to the academic institution accepting the credit.

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