Machine Learning Series: Introduction to Natural Language Processing

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 9:00 PM (GMT)

About this event

Natural language processing (NLP) uses machine learning to reveal the structure and meaning of text. With natural language processing applications, organizations can analyze text and extract information about people, places, and events to better understand social media sentiment and customer conversations.

In this crash course introduction to the topic, we will be using the spaCy, which is a free, open-source library for advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python.

Lecture contents:

 - Introducing Natural Language Processing 

 - Regex

 - Tokenization

 - Sentiment Analysis 

 - Frontier technologies and research in NLP