Getting Started with Natural Language Processing with Python

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Swetha Kolalapudi. And welcome to my course, Getting Started with Natural Language Processing with Python. I'm the company-founder of a startup called Loonycorn. Text data is available in the abundance on the Internet, whether it be reviews, tweets, surveys, web pages, or emails. Natural language processing is a powerful skill that helps you derive immense value from that data. This course is all about using NLP to solve tactical problems like auto-summarizing text, identifying themes or topics from articles, and classifying text. By the time you are done, you'll know how to use the Natural Language Toolkit in Python to perform a variety of tasks, from simple data mining tasks like organization, to machine learning algorithms like k-means clustering and k nearest neighbors. Some of the major topics that we will cover include using NLTK to preprocess raw text, scraping websites for text using BeautifulSoup, auto-summarizing text using a rule-based model, and classifying text using machine learning. By the end of this course you'll be able to confidently process raw text data and apply machine learning algorithms on it. Before beginning this course, you should be familiar with Python at a very basic level, and have a passing familiarity with what machine learning is. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn natural language processing with Python at Pluralsight.