Introduction to NLP and Syntactic Processing

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Begin your journey into Natural Language Processing (NLP) with an introduction to text data and encoding techniques, delving into the intricacies of regular expressions through extensive practice and use cases. Progress to lexical processing, learning to handle stopwords, split words, and implement bag-of-words and Tf-IDF models, applying these…