Natural Language Processing (NLP) Training in Coimbra

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level AI professionals and ethicists, data scientists and engineers, and policy makers and stakeholders who wish to understand and navigate the ethical landscape of LLMs.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify ethical issues and challenges associated with LLMs.
• Apply ethical frameworks and principles to LLM deployment.
• Assess the societal impact of LLMs and mitigate potential risks.
• Develop strategies for responsible AI development and usage.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level environmental scientists and researchers, data analysts, and policy makers and environmental advocates who wish to use LLMs for environmental modeling and analysis.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the application of LLMs in environmental science.
• Utilize LLMs to analyze and model environmental data.
• Interpret LLM outputs for environmental impact assessments.
• Communicate findings effectively to inform policy and conservation efforts.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level ML practitioners and AI developers who wish to fine-tune and deploy open-weight models like LLaMA, Mistral, and Qwen for specific business or internal applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the ecosystem and differences between open-source LLMs.
• Prepare datasets and fine-tuning configurations for models like LLaMA, Mistral, and Qwen.
• Execute fine-tuning pipelines using Hugging Face Transformers and PEFT.
• Evaluate, save, and deploy fine-tuned models in secure environments.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data and marketing professionals who wish to apply LLMs to analyze and interpret public sentiment from various text sources such as social media posts, product reviews, and customer feedback.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of sentiment analysis and its application using LLMs.
• Preprocess and prepare datasets for sentiment analysis.
• Train and fine-tune LLMs to accurately reflect sentiment in text.
• Analyze sentiment in real-time from social media and other text sources.
• Integrate sentiment analysis findings into business strategies and decision-making processes.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level software developers and technical writers who wish to leverage LLMs to streamline their coding workflow and create detailed, comprehensive documentation.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the role of LLMs in automating code generation and software documentation.
• Utilize LLMs to create accurate and efficient code snippets and documentation.
• Integrate LLMs into their software development lifecycle for enhanced productivity.
• Maintain high-quality documentation standards using automated tools.
• Address ethical considerations and best practices for using AI in software development.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level AI researchers, machine learning professionals, and data scientists who wish to use LlamaIndex to enhance the capabilities of AI models, making them more accurate and reliable for various applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles and components of LlamaIndex.
• Ingest and structure data for use with LLMs.
• Implement context augmentation to improve AI model performance.
• Integrate LlamaIndex into existing AI systems and workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level business analysts and automation engineers who wish to understand how to use LangChain and APIs for automating repetitive tasks and workflows.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of API integration with LangChain.
• Automate repetitive workflows using LangChain and Python.
• Utilize LangChain to connect various APIs for efficient business processes.
• Create and automate custom workflows using APIs and LangChain’s automation capabilities.

The CANN SDK (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) provides powerful deployment and optimization tools for real-time AI applications in computer vision and NLP, especially on Huawei Ascend hardware.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level AI practitioners who wish to build, deploy, and optimize vision and language models using the CANN SDK for production use cases.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Deploy and optimize CV and NLP models using CANN and AscendCL.
• Use CANN tools to convert models and integrate them into live pipelines.
• Optimize inference performance for tasks like detection, classification, and sentiment analysis.
• Build real-time CV/NLP pipelines for edge or cloud-based deployment scenarios.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and demonstration.
• Hands-on lab with model deployment and performance profiling.
• Live pipeline design using real CV and NLP use cases.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data scientists and developers who wish to apply NLP techniques using Python in Google Colab.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core concepts of natural language processing.
• Preprocess and clean text data for NLP tasks.
• Perform sentiment analysis using NLTK and SpaCy libraries.
• Work with text data using Google Colab for scalable and collaborative development.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level professionals who wish to fine-tune and customize AI models on Ollama for enhanced performance and domain-specific applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up an efficient environment for fine-tuning AI models on Ollama.
• Prepare datasets for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
• Optimize AI models for performance, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Deploy customized models in production environments.
• Evaluate model improvements and ensure robustness.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers who wish to learn how to use generative AI with LLMs for various tasks and domains.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain what generative AI is and how it works.
• Describe the transformer architecture that powers LLMs.
• Use empirical scaling laws to optimize LLMs for different tasks and constraints.
• Apply state-of-the-art tools and methods to train, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs.
• Discuss the opportunities and risks of generative AI for society and business.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level professionals who wish to customize pre-trained models for specific tasks and datasets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of fine-tuning and its applications.
• Prepare datasets for fine-tuning pre-trained models.
• Fine-tune large language models (LLMs) for NLP tasks.
• Optimize model performance and address common challenges.

LLMs for Code Understanding, Refactoring, and Documentation is a technical course focused on applying large language models (LLMs) to improve code quality, reduce technical debt, and automate documentation tasks across software teams.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level software professionals who wish to use LLMs such as GPT to analyze, refactor, and document complex or legacy codebases more effectively.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use LLMs to explain code, dependencies, and logic in unfamiliar repositories.
• Identify and refactor anti-patterns and improve code readability.
• Automatically generate and maintain in-line comments, README files, and API documentation.
• Integrate LLM-driven insights into existing CI/CD and review workflows.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data scientists, AI developers, and AI enthusiasts who wish to use LLMs to perform various NLP tasks and create novel and diverse content for different purposes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Establish a development environment with LLMs and essential tools.
• Expertly perform NLU and NLI tasks with LLMs.
• Extract, infer, and utilize knowledge graphs effectively.
• Generate and manage dialogues using LLMs for conversational applications.
• Evaluate content quality and diversity generated by LLMs and generative AI.
• Apply ethical principles, ensuring fairness and responsible use of LLMs.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to enhance their NLP projects through the effective fine-tuning of pre-trained language models.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of fine-tuning for NLP tasks.
• Fine-tune pre-trained models such as GPT, BERT, and T5 for specific NLP applications.
• Optimize hyperparameters for improved model performance.
• Evaluate and deploy fine-tuned models in real-world scenarios.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level developers who wish to integrate AI functionalities into their applications using Google Gemini AI.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of large language models.
• Set up and use Google Gemini AI for various AI tasks.
• Implement text-to-text and image-to-text transformations.
• Build basic AI-driven applications.
• Explore advanced features and customization options in Google Gemini AI.

This instructor-led, live training in (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists, machine learning engineers, NLP researchers, and AI enthusiasts who wish to understand the inner workings of GPT models, explore the capabilities of GPT-3 and GPT-4, and learn how to leverage these models for their NLP tasks.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the key concepts and principles behind Generative Pre-trained Transformers.
• Comprehend the architecture and training process of GPT models.
• Utilize GPT-3 for tasks such as text generation, completion, and translation.
• Explore the latest advancements in GPT-4 and its potential applications.
• Apply GPT models to their own NLP projects and tasks.

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level professionals who wish to learn the basics of NLG and its role in AI and content generation.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental concepts of Natural Language Generation.
• Explore the applications of NLG in various industries.
• Learn basic techniques for generating human-like text using AI.
• Work with Python libraries and models to generate text.

It is estimated that unstructured data accounts for more than 90 percent of all data, much of it in the form of text. Blog posts, tweets, social media, and other digital publications continuously add to this growing body of data.

This instructor-led, live course centers around extracting insights and meaning from this data. Utilizing the R Language and Natural Language Processing (NLP) libraries, we combine concepts and techniques from computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics to algorithmically understand the meaning behind text data. Data samples are available in various languages per customer requirements.

By the end of this training participants will be able to prepare data sets (large and small) from disparate sources, then apply the right algorithms to analyze and report on its significance.

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, heavy hands-on practice, occasional tests to gauge understanding

This course has been created for managers, solutions architects, innovation officers, CTOs, software architects and anyone who is interested in an overview of applied artificial intelligence and the nearest forecast for its development.

AI is a collection of technologies for building intelligent systems capable of understanding data and the activities surrounding the data to make "intelligent decisions". For Telecom providers, building applications and services that make use of AI could open the door for improved operations and servicing in areas such as maintenance and network optimization.

In this course we examine the various technologies that make up AI and the skill sets required to put them to use. Throughout the course, we examine AI's specific applications within the Telecom industry.

Audience

• Network engineers
• Network operations personnel
• Telecom technical managers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, hands-on exercises

This course is aimed at developers and data scientists who wish to understand and implement artificial intelligence in their applications. Special focus will be given to data analysis, distributed artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.

ChatBots are computer programs that automatically simulate human responses via chat interfaces. ChatBots help organizations maximize their operations efficiency by providing easier and faster options for their user interactions.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to build chatbots in Python.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of building chatbots
• Build, test, deploy, and troubleshoot various chatbots using Python

Audience

• Developers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

In this instructor-led, live training in Coimbra, participants will learn to use Python libraries for NLP as they create an application that processes a set of pictures and generates captions. 

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Design and code DL for NLP using Python libraries.
• Create Python code that reads a substantially huge collection of pictures and generates keywords.
• Create Python Code that generates captions from the detected keywords.

In this instructor-led, live training in Coimbra, participants will learn how to use Python to produce high-quality natural language text by building their own NLG system from scratch. Case studies will also be examined and the relevant concepts will be applied to live lab projects for generating content.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use NLG to automatically generate content for various industries, from journalism, to real estate, to weather and sports reporting.
• Select and organize source content, plan sentences, and prepare a system for automatic generation of original content.
• Understand the NLG pipeline and apply the right techniques at each stage.
• Understand the architecture of a Natural Language Generation (NLG) system.
• Implement the most suitable algorithms and models for analysis and ordering.
• Pull data from publicly available data sources as well as curated databases to use as material for generated text.
• Replace manual and laborious writing processes with computer-generated, automated content creation.

This classroom based training session will explore NLP techniques in conjunction with the application of AI and Robotics in business. Delegates will undertake computer based examples and case study solving exercises using Python

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at developers and data scientists who wish to use spaCy to process very large volumes of text to find patterns and gain insights.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure spaCy.
• Understand spaCy's approach to Natural Language Processing (NLP).
• Extract patterns and obtain business insights from large-scale data sources.
• Integrate the spaCy library with existing web and legacy applications.
• Deploy spaCy to live production environments to predict human behavior.
• Use spaCy to pre-process text for Deep Learning

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
• To learn more about spaCy, please visit: https://spacy.io/

This instructor-led, live training in Coimbra (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists and developers who wish to use TextBlob to implement and simplify NLP tasks, such as sentiment analysis, spelling corrections, text classification modeling, etc.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start implementing NLP tasks with TextBlob.
• Understand the features, architecture, and advantages of TextBlob.
• Learn how to build text classification systems using TextBlob.
• Perform common NLP tasks (Tokenization, WordNet, Sentiment analysis, Spelling correction, etc.)
• Execute advanced implementations with simple APIs and a few lines of codes.

In Python Machine Learning, the Text Summarization feature is able to read the input text and produce a text summary. This capability is available from the command-line or as a Python API/Library. One exciting application is the rapid creation of executive summaries; this is particularly useful for organizations that need to review large bodies of text data before generating reports and presentations.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn to use Python to create a simple application that auto-generates a summary of input text.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use a command-line tool that summarizes text.
• Design and create Text Summarization code using Python libraries.
• Evaluate three Python summarization libraries: sumy 0.7.0, pysummarization 1.0.4, readless 1.0.17

Audience

• Developers
• Data Scientists

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs.

SyntaxNet is a neural-network Natural Language Processing framework for TensorFlow.

Word2Vec is used for learning vector representations of words, called "word embeddings". Word2vec is a particularly computationally-efficient predictive model for learning word embeddings from raw text. It comes in two flavors, the Continuous Bag-of-Words model (CBOW) and the Skip-Gram model (Chapter 3.1 and 3.2 in Mikolov et al.).

Used in tandem, SyntaxNet and Word2Vec allows users to generate Learned Embedding models from Natural Language input.

Audience

This course is targeted at Developers and engineers who intend to work with SyntaxNet and Word2Vec models in their TensorFlow graphs.

After completing this course, delegates will:

• understand TensorFlow’s structure and deployment mechanisms
• be able to carry out installation / production environment / architecture tasks and configuration
• be able to assess code quality, perform debugging, monitoring
• be able to implement advanced production like training models, embedding terms, building graphs and logging