This course teaches advanced techniques in Natural Language Processing (NLP) using spaCy and spaCy-LLM. You’ll learn how to integrate LLMs into your NLP workflows, creating custom components and models.

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What you'll learn
Build custom NLP components and integrate them into spaCy workflows
Fine-tune transformer models for specialized NLP tasks
Develop end-to-end NLP workflows using spaCy-LLM and FastAPI
Apply advanced NLP techniques for semantic extraction and coreference resolution
Skills you'll gain
- Model Evaluation
- Workflow Management
- Data Processing
- Application Deployment
- Model Deployment
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
- Large Language Modeling
- Software Installation
- Natural Language Processing
- Python Programming
- Embeddings
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Automation
- Transfer Learning
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December 2025
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There are 11 modules in this course
In this section, we install spaCy and its language models, configure the environment, employ displaCy to visualize entities and dependencies, and assess spaCy's suitability for production-level Python NLP workflows.
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2 videos2 readings1 assignment
In this section, we build a spaCy NLP pipeline, customize the Tokenizer, segment sentences, apply lemmatization, and explore Doc, Span, and Token containers to strengthen everyday language processing skills.
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1 video4 readings1 assignment
In this section, we walk through spaCy workflows for Part-of-Speech tagging, dependency parsing, and Named Entity Recognition, then merge or split tokens to supply clean linguistic features to applications.
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1 video3 readings1 assignment
In this section, we design token and phrase patterns using spaCy's Matcher, PhraseMatcher, and SpanRuler, employ POS, morphology, and regex operators, then integrate rules with NER to extract domain-specific entities.
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1 video5 readings1 assignment
In this section, we build SpanRuler rules for LOCATION extraction, craft DependencyMatcher intent patterns, and assemble a custom spaCy pipeline leveraging Language.pipe() to efficiently process large ATIS datasets.
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1 video4 readings1 assignment
In this section, we integrate transformer-based transfer learning into spaCy, examine BERT and RoBERTa architectures, and prepare config files to train an accurate TextCategorizer for production NLP pipelines.
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1 video6 readings1 assignment
In this section, we integrate spaCy and LLM components, build a summarization pipe, design Jinja-based prompts for context-aware extraction, and embed these custom tasks to enhance NLP performance.
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1 video3 readings1 assignment
In this section, we assess spaCy's default NER on domain texts, annotate entities using Prodigy and nertk, then configure, train and integrate multiple custom NER components for accurate, specialized pipelines.
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1 video2 readings1 assignment
In this section, we clone a Weasel spaCy template, customize it for varied NLP tasks, then integrate DVC Studio to version data, track experiments, and enable reproducible production pipelines.
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1 video4 readings1 assignment
In this section, we configure spaCy's pipeline to train an EntityLinker, craft high-quality annotated corpora, and evaluate linking accuracy with a custom reader for knowledge-base integration.
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1 video2 readings1 assignment
In this section, we connect spaCy models to Streamlit and FastAPI, building an interactive NER web app and a type-hinted REST API that serves entity extraction for production use.
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1 video2 readings1 assignment
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