Natural Language Processing with Classification and Vector Spaces
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Taught by Younes Bensouda Mourri, Łukasz Kaiser, Eddy Shyu
Data ScienceComputer Science
About the course
In Course 1 of the Natural Language Processing Specialization, you will: a) Perform sentiment analysis of tweets using logistic regression and then naïve Bayes, b) Use vector space models to discover relationships between words and use PCA to reduce the dimensionality of the vector space and visualize those relationships, and c) Write a simple English to French translation algorithm using pre-computed word embeddings and locality-sensitive hashing to relate words via approximate k-nearest n
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