Week 11: NLP: NLTK, spaCy & Transformers

Tokenization, stemming, NER, POS tagging, text classification, Hugging Face

📌 Strategy & Study Guidance

Focus on hands-on coding. Allocate 2 blocks daily: concept review + practice.

Blocks

Block 101 Monday

Text Preprocessing & Tokenization

 Block 102 Monday

Stemming & Lemmatization

 Block 103 Tuesday

Bag-of-Words & TF-IDF

 Block 104 Tuesday

Text Classification with scikit-learn

 Block 105 Wednesday

spaCy: Pipelines & POS Tagging

 Block 106 Wednesday

spaCy: Named Entity Recognition

 Block 107 Thursday

Word Embeddings: Word2Vec & GloVe Concepts

 Block 108 Thursday

Hugging Face Transformers: Intro

 Block 109 Friday

Fine-tuning Concepts & Zero-Shot Classification

 Block 110 Friday

Mini-Project: Sentiment Analysis Tool

📺 20 Curated YouTube Videos

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📋 Cheat Sheets

Quick Reference

Core syntax and common patterns for this week. Week 11 - Tokenization, stemming, NER, POS tagging, text classification, Hugging Face

API Cheat Sheet

Key functions and methods. Week 11 - Tokenization, stemming, NER, POS tagging, text classification, Hugging Face

Best Practices

Style and performance tips. Week 11 - Tokenization, stemming, NER, POS tagging, text classification, Hugging Face

💻 Code Snippets

Basic Example

# Week 11: NLP: NLTK, spaCy & Transformers
# Basic pattern for this topic
result = process(data)

Common Pattern

# Week 11: NLP: NLTK, spaCy & Transformers
# Frequently used pattern

Quick Start

# Week 11: NLP: NLTK, spaCy & Transformers
# Minimal working example

📊 Visualizations & Diagrams

Concept Diagram

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  A[Input] --> B[Process]
  B --> C[Output]

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Workflow

Step 1 -> Step 2 -> Step 3

Assessment

📝 Week 11 Assessment (Practice + AI Analysis)