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WSQ – Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Beginners

WSQ – Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Beginners

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Dive into the fascinating world of Natural Language Processing with our WSQ-endorsed course designed for beginners. You'll get hands-on experience in key NLP techniques like sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and text classification using Python. This course introduces you to the powerful Python libraries used in NLP and provides a practical approach to analyzing text data for various real-world applications.

By the end of this course, you'll have a strong foundational understanding of NLP principles and how to implement them using Python. Whether you're an aspiring data scientist, a business analyst, or anyone interested in text analysis, this course will equip you with the skills to extract meaningful insights from large volumes of text data.

Course Objectives

Learners will be able to implement natural language processing (NLP) models for text processing tasks

Learning Outcomes

By end of the course, learners should be able to:

LO1: Identify the tasks associated with natural language processing (NLP)
LO2: Perform text representation using word embedding
LO3: Perform language processing and modeling
LO4: Build text classification using machine learning
LO5: Determine strategies to enhance memory networks

Course Brochure

Download WSQ – Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Beginners Brochure

Skills Framework

This course follows the guideline of Text Analytics and Processing ICT-DIT-5029-1.1 TSC under ICT Skills Framework

Certification.

Certificate of Completion from Tertiary Infotech - Upon meeting at least 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from Tertiary Infotech.
OpenCerts from SkillsFuture Singapore - After passing the assessment(s) and achieving at least 75% attendance, participants will receive a OpenCert (aka Statement of Achievement) from SkillsFuture Singapore, certifying that they have achieved the Competency Standard(s) in the above Skills Framework.

WSQ Funding

WSQ funding is only applicable to Singaporeans and PR. Subject to eligibility, the funding support is subjected to funding caps.

Effective for courses starting from 1 Jan 2024
Full Fee	GST	Nett Fee after Funding (Incl. GST)
		Baseline	MCES / SME
$750	$67.50	$442.50	$292.50

Baseline: Singaporean/PR age 21 and above
MCES(Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy): S'porean age 40 & above

Upon registration, we will advise further on how to tap on the WSQ Training Subsidy.

You can pay the nett fee (after the WSQ training subsidy) by the following :

SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)

Eligible Singapore-registered companies can tap on $10000 SFEC to cover out-of-pocket expenses.Click here to submit SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit

SkillsFuture Credit (SFC)

Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SFC to offset course fee payable after funding but the $4,000 Additional SFC (Mid-Career Support) cannot be used. Click here for SkillsFuture Credit submission

UTAP

Eligible NTUC members can apply for 50% of the unfunded fee from UTAP, capped up to $250/year and for members aged 40 and above, capped up to $500/year. Click here to submit UTAP

PSEA

Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their PSEA funds to offset course fee payable after funding. Please inform us if you intend to use your PSEA funding .

To check for Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA) eligibility for this course, Visit SkillsFuture (course code: TGS-2020505109)

Scroll down to “Keyword Tags” to verify for PSEA eligibility.
If there is “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is eligible for PSEA.

Course Code: TGS-2020505109

Post-Course Support

We provide free consultation related to the subject matter after the course.
Please email your queries to enquiry@tertiaryinfotech.com and we will forward your queries to the subject matter experts.

Course Cancellation/Reschedule Policy

You can register your interest without upfront payment. There is no penalty for withdrawal of the course before the class commerce.
We reserve the right to cancel or re-schedule the course due to unforeseen circumstances. If the course is cancelled, we will refund 100% for any paid amount.
Note the venue of the training is subject to changes due to availability of the classroom

Course Details

Topic 1 Overview of NLP and Deep Learning

Overview of NLP
Applications of NLP
Deep Learning Approach to NLP
Basics of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)
Install Python Packages for NLP – Scikit Learn, Tensorflow, NLTK, Spacy, Gensim

Topic 2 Word Embedding

Overview of Word Embedding
Word Embedding Models
Pre-trained Word Embedding Models

Topic 3 Language Modeling

Tokenization and Stop Words
Stemming & Lemmatizing
Part of Speech & Parsing
Named Entities Recognition (NER) Extraction
Language Modeling with n-gram and RNN
Pre-trained Language Models

Topic 4 Text Classification

Text Feature Engineering
Text Processing Pipeline
Text Classification

Topic 5 Overview of Attention Mechanism

Encoder-Decoder Models
Attention Mechanism to Memory Networks

Final Assessment

Written Assessment - Short Answer Questions (WA-SAQ)
Practical Performance (PP)

Course Info

Promotion Code

Promo or discount cannot be applied to WSQ courses

Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge and Skills

Able to operate using computer functions with minimum Computer Literacy Level 2 based on ICAS Computer Skills Assessment Framework
Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)

Attitude

Positive Learning Attitude
Enthusiastic Learner

Experience

Minimum of 1 year of working experience.
Minimum 18 years old

Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement

Software:

Download and Install the following software

Hardware: Window or Mac Laptops

About Progressive Wage Model (PWM)

The Progressive Wage Model (PWM) helps to increase wages of workers through upgrading skills and improving productivity.

Employers must ensure that their Singapore citizen and PR workers meet the PWM training requirements of attaining at least 1 Workforce Skills Qualification (WSQ) Statement of Attainment, out of the list of approved WSQ training modules.

For more information on PWM, please visit MOM site.

Funding Eligility Criteria

Individual Sponsored Trainee

Employer Sponsored Trainee

Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents of age 21 and above
From 1 October 2023, attendance-taking for SkillsFuture Singapore's (SSG) funded courses must be done digitally via the Singpass App. This applies to both physical and synchronous e-learning courses.
Trainee must pass all prescribed tests / assessments and attain 100% competency.
We reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from trainee if he/she did not meet the eligibility criteria.

Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents who are DIRECT EMPLOYEE of the sponsoring company.
From 1 October 2023, attendance-taking for SkillsFuture Singapore's (SSG) funded courses must be done digitally via the Singpass App. This applies to both physical and synchronous e-learning courses.
Trainee must pass all prescribed tests / assessments and attain 100% competency.
We reserves the right to claw back the funded amount from the employer if trainee did not meet the eligibility criteria.

SkillsFuture Credit:

Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fee payable after funding.

PSEA:

To check for Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA) eligibility, goto mySkillsFuture portal and search for this course code.
Scroll down to "Keyword Tags" to verify for PSEA eligibility.
If there is “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is eligible for PSEA.
And if there is no “PSEA” under keyword tags, the course is ineligible for PSEA.
Not all courses are eligible for PSEA funding.

Absentee Payroll (AP) Funding:

$4.50 per hour, capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year.
AP funding will be computed based on the actual number of training hours attended by the trainee.

SFEC:

If the Training Provider has submitted an enrolment for course fee grant claim in Training Partners Gateway (TPGateway), SSG would be able to derive SFEC funding based on this record. There is no need for enterprise to submit any claim request and the SFEC claim will be automatically generated and disbursed.
Where there is no such record, eligible employers are required to submit an SFEC claim after course completion via the SFEC microsite.
SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC) Microsite

Steps to Apply Skills Future Claim

The staff will send you an invoice with the fee breakdown.
Login to the MySkillsFuture portal, select the course you’re enrolling on and enter the course date and schedule.
Enter the course fee payable by you (including GST) and enter the amount of credit to claim.
Upload your invoice and click ‘Submit’

SkillsFuture Level-Up Program

The SkillsFuture Level-Up Programme provides greater structural support for mid-career Singaporeans aged 40 years and above to pursue a substantive skills reboot and stay relevant in a changing economy. For more information, visit SkillsFuture Level-Up Programme

Get Additional Course Fee Support Up to $500 under UTAP

The Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP) is a training benefit provided to NTUC Union Members with an objective of encouraging them to upgrade with skills training. It is provided to minimize the training cost. If you are a NTUC Union Member then you can get 50% funding (capped at $500 per year) under Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP).

For more information visit NTUC U Portal – Union Training Assistance Program (UTAP)

Steps to Apply UTAP

Note

SSG subsidy is available for Singapore Citizens, Permanent Residents, and Corporates.
All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit to pay. For more details, visit www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/credit
An unfunded course fee can be claimed via SkillsFuture Credit or paid in cash.
UTAP funding for NTUC Union Members is capped at $250 for 39 years and below and at $500 for 40 years and above.
UTAP support amount will be paid to training provider first and claimed after end of class by learner.

Appeal Process

The candidate has the right to disagree with the assessment decision made by the assessor.
When giving feedback to the candidate, the assessor must check with the candidate if he agrees with the assessment outcome.
If the candidate agrees with the assessment outcome, the assessor & the candidate must sign the Assessment Summary Record.
If the candidate disagrees with the assessment outcome, he/she should not sign in the Assessment Summary Record.
If the candidate intends to appeal the decision, he/she should first discuss the matter with the assessor/assessment manager.
If the candidate is still not satisfied with the decision, the candidate must notify the assessor of the decision to appeal. The assessor will reflect the candidate’s intention in the Feedback Section of the Assessment Summary Record.
The assessor will notify the assessor manager about the candidate’s intention to lodge an appeal.
The candidate must lodge the appeal within 7 days, giving reasons for appeal
The assessor can help the candidate with writing and lodging the appeal.
he assessment manager will collect information from the candidate & assessor and give a final decision.
A record of the appeal and any subsequent actions and findings will be made.
An Assessment Appeal Panel will be formed to review and give a decision.
The outcome of the appeal will be made known to the candidate within 2 weeks from the date the appeal was lodged.
The decision of the Assessment Appeal Panel is final and no further appeal will be entertained.
Please click the link below to fill up the Candidates Appeal Form.

Job Roles

NLP Engineer
Data Scientist (specializing in text data)
Machine Learning Engineer (NLP focus)
Computational Linguist
AI Research Scientist (language models)
Chatbot Developer
Text Mining Specialist
AI Solutions Architect (with NLP projects)
Conversational AI Designer
Search Algorithm Developer
Recommendation System Engineer (content-based)
Content Analysis Engineer
Information Retrieval Specialist
Machine Translation Developer
Speech Recognition Engineer.

Trainers

Quah Chee Yong: Quah Chee Yong is a ACTA trainer. Chee Yong is an experienced professional who has held various Technical, Operations and Commercial positions across several industries A firm believer that AI can create a better world, he has equipped himself with the Knowledge and Skills in the fields of Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Cloud Deployment He has a deep passion for training & facilitating and is currently a Singapore WSQ certified Adult Educator. He particularly enjoys the interactive engagements with his fellow trainers and learners.

Customer Reviews (13)

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This course is useful to understand the package NLTK and what can be done with it. Looking forward to explore further with my own projects! (Posted on 10/5/2022)

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I put "might consider" because this beginners' course is not really for beginners. It seems like students from non-STEM backgrounds don't have the requisite knowledge to fully digest the course content. Also the course requires more than "basic" Python knowledge.
If I know of someone who can handle this course I will recommend to him/her.

Please avoid using images that can trigger phobia in some people. e.g. the images on slide 170 "GPT3 World record". especially the one on the left. Thank you. (Posted on 2/28/2022)

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One question in the written assessment is quite misleading (Qns 12) and two question in practical assessment has no prior examples in the practice session (Part 3 and 5). Please consider adjusting for clarity purpose (Posted on 10/17/2021)

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more exercise for beginner (Posted on 9/5/2021)

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It's good course (Posted on 9/5/2021)

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lots of practice (Posted on 9/5/2021)

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everything was just well prepared. It's easy to get access to the course material even after the training.
It gave me a basic programming knowledge to perform NLP in simple cases using free tools. Thank you (Posted on 9/5/2021)

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I think the course overall has met it's expectations rather well. All is good!

Advice to advanced courses to further develop the skillsets picked up. (Posted on 3/6/2021)

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About Us

Tertiary Courses, founded in 2014, specializes in providing modular, skill-based courses tailored to Industry 4.0. We are WSQ Approved Training Organization (ATO), and IBF Approved ATO.. We are also Authorized Microsoft Learning Partner, Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC), Pearson Vue Authorized Test Center and Kryterion Authorized Testing Center. We offer a comprehensive range of training, certification prep and certification exam services. Additionally, we are a registered supplier with Singapore GeBiz, further solidifying our position as a trusted educational institution in the region.

Training Grants and Subsidies

We have various grants and subsidies for different courses. Please check the respective funding available on individual course page.

WSQ: Company and Singaporeans/PR can apply WSQ 70-90% funding depending on eligibility
SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC) - Eligible Singapore-registered companies can tap on $10000 SFEC to cover up to 90% of out-of-pocket expense
SkillsFuture Credit: All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their $500 SkillsFuture Credit from the government to pay for a wide range of approved skills-related courses.
IBF-STS Companies and Singaporeans/PR can apply IBF-STS 70-90% funding depending on eligibility
UTAP: NTUC members enjoy 50% subsidy for unfunded course fee support for up to $250 each year when you sign up for courses supported under UTAP
SGTech STAR Fund: SGTECH members enjoy $500 grant per pax for SGTech STAR courses