AI & Tech · Self-paced course
Natural Language Processing Essentials
Learn how computers process text — from tokenisation to transformer models — and apply NLP techniques to practical problems.
$97
One-time payment · Self-paced course · 5 modules · 15 lessons
What this is
Natural Language Processing Essentials walks through the core ideas behind text analytics and language models: cleaning and tokenising text, representing words as numbers, classic classification methods, embeddings and the transformer architecture behind today’s large language models. Each module pairs a concept with a small, hands-on Python exercise.
It assumes some basic Python and is not an advanced research course. It will not make you an NLP specialist on its own, and it makes no promise about the accuracy any model will achieve on your data.
What you will be able to do
- Clean, tokenise and normalise raw text for analysis
- Explain bag-of-words, TF-IDF and embedding representations
- Build and evaluate a simple text classifier
- Describe how transformer models and attention work at a conceptual level
- Use a pre-trained model for tasks such as summarisation or sentiment analysis
The curriculum
Working with text
- Why language is hard for computersFree preview
- Tokenisation and normalisation
- Cleaning messy real-world text
Representing words as numbers
- Bag-of-words and TF-IDF
- Word embeddings
- Measuring similarity between texts
Classic NLP tasks
- Text classification
- Named entity recognition
- Evaluating NLP models
Transformers and language models
- Attention explained simply
- How large language models are trained
- Strengths and limits of language models
Applying NLP
- Using pre-trained models
- Summarisation and sentiment analysis
- Planning a small NLP project
This is for you if…
- You know basic Python and want to work with text data
- You use language models and want to understand what is happening underneath
- You are an analyst who handles survey responses, tickets or documents
- You prefer a clear conceptual grounding before using complex libraries
What you get
- Lifetime access to all 15 lessons across 5 modules
- Self-paced lessons you can start, pause and revisit on any device
- A practical action step to apply what you learn
- A free preview lesson so you can check the approach before you buy
- Coverage by our 30-day refund policy if the course is not right for you
Questions
Do I get a certification, licence or credential?
No. This course does not award any certification, licence or professional credential, and it is not accredited by any body. It is an educational course only.
Do I need any experience?
No formal experience is required unless noted above. Read the free preview lesson and the ‘This is for you if…’ list to check the level is right for you.
How do I get access?
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How long do I have access?
Access does not expire. The course is self-paced, so you can work through it on your own schedule.
What if it isn’t right for me?
Purchases are covered by our refund policy. Please read it before buying.
Educational content only. No income, revenue or earnings results are promised or implied, and results depend on your own effort and circumstances. Skills Learning Hub is an independent education provider; this course is not accredited and does not award a certification, licence or professional credential.