Natural Language Processing Fundamentals
A great deal of organisational knowledge sits in unstructured text: emails, reports, complaints and transcripts. This course covers the techniques that turn that text into something a system can search, classify and summarise.
Course outline
What this programme covers, module by module.
- 01Text as data: sources, structure and common problems
- 02Tokenisation, normalisation and text preprocessing
- 03Representing text: frequency methods and embeddings
- 04Text classification and sentiment analysis
- 05Named entity recognition and information extraction
- 06Language models, summarisation and semantic search
- 07Evaluation, error analysis and known failure modes
What you will gain
- Prepare and normalise text data for analysis
- Represent text numerically for modelling
- Build text classification and sentiment models
- Extract entities and key information from documents
- Apply language models to summarisation and search
- Evaluate language model output and its failure modes
Who should attend
- Data analysts and scientists
- Software developers working with text
- Research and insight professionals
- Technical staff in document heavy operations
Upcoming sessions
| Date | City | Duration | Fees | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 to 6 Nov 2026 | London | 5 Days | US$1,800 | |
| 16 to 20 Nov 2026 | Dubai | 5 Days | US$1,800 | |
| 30 Nov to 4 Dec 2026 | Pretoria | 5 Days | R18,000 | |
| 11 to 15 Jan 2027 | Durban | 5 Days | R18,000 | |
| 22 to 26 Feb 2027 | Cape Town | 5 Days | R18,000 | |
| 3 to 7 May 2027 | Johannesburg | 5 Days | R18,000 | |
| 19 to 23 Jul 2027 | London | 5 Days | US$1,800 |
Fees are per delegate and exclude VAT. Public intakes are confirmed once minimum numbers are met. We also deliver this course on your own schedule, in-house or live online.
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- R18,000 per delegate
- Duration
- 5 Days
- Field
- Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technology
- Formats
- In-house, public, online
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