Natural Language Processing: NLP With Transformers in Python

Learn next-generation NLP with transformers for sentiment analysis, Q&A, similarity search, NER, and more

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Natural Language Processing: NLP With Transformers in Python

What You Will Learn!

Industry standard NLP using transformer models
Build full-stack question-answering transformer models
Perform sentiment analysis with transformers models in PyTorch and TensorFlow
Advanced search technologies like Elasticsearch and Facebook AI Similarity Search (FAISS)
Create fine-tuned transformers models for specialized use-cases
Measure performance of language models using advanced metrics like ROUGE
Vector building techniques like BM25 or dense passage retrievers (DPR)
An overview of recent developments in NLP
Understand attention and other key components of transformers
Learn about key transformers models such as BERT
Preprocess text data for NLP
Named entity recognition (NER) using spaCy and transformers
Fine-tune language classification models

Description

Transformer models are the de-facto standard in modern NLP. They have proven themselves as the most expressive, powerful models for language by a large margin, beating all major language-based benchmarks time and time again.

In this course, we cover everything you need to get started with building cutting-edge performance NLP applications using transformer models like Google AI's BERT, or Facebook AI's DPR.

We cover several key NLP frameworks including:

HuggingFace's Transformers
TensorFlow 2
PyTorch
spaCy
NLTK
Flair

And learn how to apply transformers to some of the most popular NLP use-cases:

Language classification/sentiment analysis
Named entity recognition (NER)
Question and Answering
Similarity/comparative learning

Throughout each of these use-cases we work through a variety of examples to ensure that what, how, and why transformers are so important. Alongside these sections we also work through two full-size NLP projects, one for sentiment analysis of financial Reddit data, and another covering a fully-fledged open domain question-answering application.

All of this is supported by several other sections that encourage us to learn how to better design, implement, and measure the performance of our models, such as: