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Natural Language Processing Specialization
Advanced 200 hours English Specialization
Our recommendation
DeepLearning.AI's four-course specialisation on natural language processing, from classic methods through attention and transformers. It is hands-on and thorough, and one of the better structured routes into NLP — but it is advanced, expecting solid Python, machine learning and some maths.
Skills you'll gain
Natural language processingTransformersAttentionSentiment analysisMachine translationWord embeddings
Is this course right for you?
A good fit if you…
You have Python and ML basics
You want structured NLP
You like hands-on coding
Consider something else if you…
You are new to machine learning
You only want to use LLMs
You want a short overview
About this course
This four-course specialization covers NLP from classical ML through modern deep learning: sentiment analysis, word embeddings, sequence models with LSTMs, and finally the transformer architecture that underpins BERT and GPT.
What you'll learn
Build text classifiers using logistic regression, naive Bayes, and word vectors
Implement Word2Vec and GloVe word embeddings
Build sequence models with LSTMs, GRUs, and Siamese networks
Implement the attention mechanism and transformer from scratch
Apply neural machine translation and question answering with transformers
This course includes
200h
On-demand video
Yes
Certificate
Yes
Mobile access
English
Language
What it costs
Free to audit on Coursera; the certificate needs a subscription, around $49 a month, with financial aid available.
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Is the certificate recognised?
The certificate is issued through Coursera with DeepLearning.AI. The hands-on projects matter most to employers.
Instructor
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Younes Bensouda Mourri / Łukasz Kaiser
Coursera instructor
190K+ learners4 courses4.6 instructor rating
Taught by Younes Bensouda Mourri and Łukasz Kaiser (co-author of Attention Is All You Need) from DeepLearning.AI.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes for a structured, hands-on route into NLP, if you already have machine-learning basics. It covers classic methods through transformers.
Python, machine-learning fundamentals and some maths. It is advanced.
A free audit of the videos is usually available; the certificate needs a subscription, with financial aid available.
CS224n is more academic and free but has no certificate; this specialisation is more guided and hands-on, with a certificate. Choose structure or rigour.
Around 200 hours across four courses — a few months part-time.