Phase 05

NLP Foundations to Advanced

Phase 5: NLP Foundations to Advanced. 29 hands-on lessons building AI from first principles in the browser. Free reading; graded exercises and certificate with lifetime access.

1. Text Processing — Tokenization, Stemming, Lemmatization (graded)
2. Bag of Words, TF-IDF, and Text Representation (graded)
3. Word Embeddings — Word2Vec from Scratch (graded)
4. GloVe, FastText, and Subword Embeddings (graded)
5. Sentiment Analysis (graded)
6. Named Entity Recognition (graded)
7. POS Tagging and Syntactic Parsing
8. CNNs and RNNs for Text
9. Sequence-to-Sequence Models
10. Attention Mechanism — The Breakthrough
11. Machine Translation
12. Text Summarization
13. Question Answering Systems (graded)
14. Information Retrieval and Search (graded)
15. Topic Modeling — LDA and BERTopic
16. Text Generation Before Transformers — N-gram Language Models (graded)
17. Chatbots — Rule-Based to Neural to LLM Agents
18. Multilingual NLP
19. Subword Tokenization — BPE, WordPiece, Unigram, SentencePiece (graded)
20. Structured Outputs & Constrained Decoding
21. Natural Language Inference — Textual Entailment
22. Embedding Models — The 2026 Deep Dive (graded)
23. Chunking Strategies for RAG
24. Coreference Resolution
25. Entity Linking & Disambiguation
26. Relation Extraction & Knowledge Graph Construction
27. LLM Evaluation — RAGAS, DeepEval, G-Eval
28. Long-Context Evaluation — NIAH, RULER, LongBench, MRCR
29. Dialogue State Tracking