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Natural Language Processing with Sequence Models

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Overview

In Course 3 of the Natural Language Processing Specialization, you will:

a) Train a neural network with word embeddings to perform sentiment analysis of tweets,

b) Generate synthetic Shakespeare text using a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) language model,

c) Train a recurrent neural network to perform named entity recognition (NER) using LSTMs with linear layers, and

d) Use so-called ‘Siamese’ LSTM models to compare questions in a corpus and identify those that are worded differently but have the same meaning.

By the end of this Specialization, you will have designed NLP applications that perform question-answering and sentiment analysis, created tools to translate languages and summarize text!

This Specialization is designed and taught by two experts in NLP, machine learning, and deep learning. Younes Bensouda Mourri is an Instructor of AI at Stanford University who also helped build the Deep Learning Specialization. Łukasz Kaiser is a Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain and the co-author of Tensorflow, the Tensor2Tensor and Trax libraries, and the Transformer paper.

Syllabus 3

  1. Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Modeling 10 hours

    Learn about the limitations of traditional language models and see how RNNs and GRUs use sequential data for text prediction. Then build your own next-word generator using a simple RNN on Shakespeare text data!

  2. LSTMs and Named Entity Recognition 5 hours

    Learn about how long short-term memory units (LSTMs) solve the vanishing gradient problem, and how Named Entity Recognition systems quickly extract important information from text. Then build your own Named Entity Recognition system using an LSTM and data from Kaggle!

  3. Siamese Networks 6 hours

    Learn about Siamese networks, a special type of neural network made of two identical networks that are eventually merged together, then build your own Siamese network that identifies question duplicates in a dataset from Quora.

Skills you'll practise

Natural Language ProcessingAnalysisArtificial Neural Networks

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • Structured courses with graded quizzes, assignments and deadlines you can reset.
  • A shareable certificate from the university or company when you pay.
  • Financial aid is often approved for students in India (apply 15 days before you need it).
  • Andrew Ng and his team are among the clearest AI teachers anywhere.
  • Short courses are made with the companies building the tools (OpenAI, Google, AWS, Hugging Face).
  • From DeepLearning.AI, a well-regarded name.
  • Self-paced: start any time.
  • A clear syllabus (3 parts) you can see before you start.

Disadvantages

  • Paid after a 7-day free trial (Coursera Plus or per course).
  • Some courses can be audited for free, but graded work and certificates need payment.
  • Short courses are 1–2 hours: an introduction, not mastery.
  • Some notebooks need a paid Pro plan or your own API key.

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This course is paid. Here is how to take it for free

  • Free trials: You can start a 7-day free trial for many individual courses, Specializations, or a Coursera Plus subscription to test full course features. Cancel before the seventh day if you do not want to be charged.
  • Financial aid: If you cannot afford the fee for a certificate, you can apply for financial aid through the link on the course home page by filling out an application about your background and goals.

Taught by

  • Younes Bensouda MourriInstructor, Instructor of AI, Stanford University
  • Łukasz KaiserInstructor , Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain & Chargé de Recherche, CNRS
  • Eddy ShyuInstructor

DeepLearning.AI is in Tier 2: excellent universities and the companies that build the technology of our institution ranking (90/100). Andrew Ng's courses.

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