ADAN 7431 Natural Language Processing

Name: Natural Language Processing
Rating: 4.58 (31 reviews)

Course Description: This course introduces students to natural language processing (NLP) concepts and methods. Students will learn how to conduct both supervised and unsupervised NLP. The course covers 1) the basics of NLP, 2) text (document) classification, 3) text summarization, 4) text similarity & clustering, 5) semantic analysis, 6) sentiment analysis, and 7) deep learning approaches (Recurrent Neural Networks and transformer-based architecture.

Course overview

Department: Advancing Studies
School: ADV
Credits: 3
Level: Graduate
Offered: Periodically

Catalog details

Prerequisites: ADEC7220 or ADAN7220 and ADEC7301/ADAN7301 and ADAN7430 or ADEC7430 and ADAN7905/ADEC7905

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Requirements fulfilled

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Official evaluation summary

4.58 / 5

Based on 31 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

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Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

Lawrence Fulton
Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Midterm Fall 2023 · Official rating 4.68/5

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