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Intermediate

Natural Language Processing Essentials

Coursera · Coursera Project Network · Updated March 2026

Platform rating

4.5/5

Champ rating

8.3/10

Duration

4 weeks, 3 hours/week

Classes

30

Master essential NLP skills and techniques for text processing and analysis. Cover sentiment analysis, classification, sequence models, and practical applications. Learn best practices for building robust NLP systems.

What you'll get

Master essential NLP techniques and algorithms

Build sentiment analysis and text classification systems

Implement sequence models for NLP tasks

Apply NLP to real-world text processing problems

Fit

Best for

Leaders

Analysts

Researchers

Decision-makers

Not ideal for

Learners seeking only entry-level overviews

Prerequisites & pricing

Prerequisites

Python programming, basic machine learning

Pricing

Free to audit, $49 for certificate

Certification

Certificate

NLP

text-analysis

sentiment-analysis

classification

machine-learning

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