Natural Language Processing (NLP) Course

This course will teach you about natural language processing (NLP) using libraries from the Hugging Face ecosystem — 🤗 Transformers, 🤗 Datasets, 🤗 Tokenizers, and 🤗 Accelerate — as well as the Hugging Face Hub. It’s completely free and without ads.

What to expect?

Here is a brief overview of the course:

• Chapters 1 to 4 provide an introduction to the main concepts of the 🤗 Transformers library. By the end of this part of the course, you will be familiar with how Transformer models work and will know how to use a model from the Hugging Face Hub, fine-tune it on a dataset, and share your results on the Hub!
• Chapters 5 to 8 teach the basics of 🤗 Datasets and 🤗 Tokenizers before diving into classic NLP tasks. By the end of this part, you will be able to tackle the most common NLP problems by yourself.
• Chapter 9 goes beyond NLP to cover how to build and share demos of your models on the 🤗 Hub. By the end of this part, you will be ready to showcase your 🤗 Transformers application to the world!

This course:

• Requires a good knowledge of Python
• Is better taken after an introductory deep learning course, such as fast.ai’s Practical Deep Learning for Coders or one of the programs developed by DeepLearning.AI
• Does not expect prior PyTorch or TensorFlow knowledge, though some familiarity with either of those will help

After you’ve completed this course, we recommend checking out DeepLearning.AI’s Natural Language Processing Specialization, which covers a wide range of traditional NLP models like naive Bayes and LSTMs that are well worth knowing about!