Natural Language Processing with Attention Models (Coursera)

Offered by DeepLearning.AI,
Natural Language Processing with Attention Models (Coursera)

This course is for students of machine learning or artificial intelligence as well as software engineers looking for a deeper understanding of how NLP models work and how to apply them.

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In Course 4 of the Natural Language Processing Specialization, offered by DeepLearning.AI, you will:
a) Translate complete English sentences into German using an encoder-decoder attention model,
b) Build a Transformer model to summarize text,
c) Use T5 and BERT models to perform question-answering, and
d) Build a chatbot using a Reformer model.
Course 4 of 4 in the Natural Language Processing Specialization

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Neural Machine Translation
Discover some of the shortcomings of a traditional seq2seq model and how to solve for them by adding an attention mechanism, then build a Neural Machine Translation model with Attention that translates English sentences into German.

WEEK 2
Text Summarization
Compare RNNs and other sequential models to the more modern Transformer architecture, then create a tool that generates text summaries.

WEEK 3
Question Answering
Explore transfer learning with state-of-the-art models like T5 and BERT, then build a model that can answer questions.

WEEK 4
Chatbot
Examine some unique challenges Transformer models face and their solutions, then build a chatbot using a Reformer model.

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