Natural Language Processing (NLP) Training in Porto

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) is designed for senior management professionals who wish to understand what LLMs are, explore their potential impact on business operations, and evaluate the practical uses of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Grok for real-world tasks like content creation, data summarization, and decision support.

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

• Understand what LLMs are and how tools like ChatGPT and Copilot function.
• Use prompt techniques to get practical, reliable results from LLMs.
• Evaluate real use cases such as email drafting, summarizing documents, and productivity automation.
• Identify investment opportunities and strategic applications for AI adoption.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (available online or onsite) targets intermediate-level environmental scientists, researchers, data analysts, and policy makers or environmental advocates who wish to apply LLMs to environmental modeling and analysis.

By the conclusion 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 Porto (online or onsite) targets educators, EdTech professionals, and researchers with diverse expertise levels who wish to leverage LLMs to craft personalised educational experiences.

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

• Comprehend the architecture and capabilities of LLMs.
• Identify opportunities for personalising educational content using LLMs.
• Design adaptive learning platforms that utilise LLMs for content personalisation.
• Implement LLM-driven strategies to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of LLMs in educational settings and make data-driven decisions for

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) targets beginner to intermediate software developers and data scientists who wish to implement LLMs within speech recognition and synthesis systems.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the role of LLMs in speech technologies.
• Implement LLMs to achieve accurate speech recognition and natural-sounding speech synthesis.
• Integrate LLMs with speech recognition engines and synthesizers.
• Evaluate and enhance the performance of speech systems using LLMs.
• Keep abreast of current trends and future directions in speech technologies.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) is designed for beginner to intermediate-level customer support and IT professionals aiming to implement LLMs to create responsive and intelligent customer support chatbots.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the fundamentals and architecture of Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Design and integrate LLMs into customer support systems.
• Improve the responsiveness and user experience of chatbots.
• Address ethical considerations and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Deploy and maintain an LLM-based chatbot for practical, real-world applications.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (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:

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

Ollama is a platform that allows users to run large language and multimodal models locally.

This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) is designed for intermediate practitioners seeking to master prompt engineering techniques to optimise Ollama outputs.

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Design effective prompts for a variety of use cases.
• Apply techniques such as priming and chain-of-thought structuring.
• Implement prompt templates and context management strategies.
• Build multi-stage prompting pipelines for complex workflows.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Hands-on exercises focused on prompt design.
• Practical implementation within a live lab environment.

Customisation Options

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

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) targets advanced engineers, AI specialists, and localization leads who aim to implement large language model (LLM) systems for automated translation, quality evaluation, and enterprise governance.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Construct enterprise-grade LLM localization pipelines that integrate both open-source and proprietary models.
• Implement automated QA workflows and define quality metrics to ensure translation consistency.
• Establish governance and approval frameworks for the production of multilingual content.
• Deploy scalable, auditable LLM-based localization systems within secure environments.

The CANN SDK (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) offers robust deployment and optimization utilities for real-time AI applications in computer vision and NLP, particularly on Huawei Ascend hardware.

This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level AI professionals seeking to build, deploy, and optimize vision and language models using the CANN SDK for production-grade solutions.

Upon completing this training, participants will be capable of:

• Deploying and optimizing CV and NLP models utilizing CANN and AscendCL.
• Leveraging CANN utilities to convert models and integrate them into active pipelines.
• Enhancing inference performance for tasks such as detection, classification, and sentiment analysis.
• Constructing real-time CV/NLP pipelines tailored for edge or cloud-based deployment environments.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and demonstrations.
• Practical labs focused on model deployment and performance profiling.
• Designing live pipelines using real-world CV and NLP scenarios.

Customization Options

• For those requiring customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level data scientists and developers wishing 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.

Devstral and Mistral are open-source AI technologies engineered for flexible deployment, fine-tuning capabilities, and scalable integration.

This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) targets intermediate to advanced ML engineers, platform teams, and research engineers looking to self-host, fine-tune, and govern Mistral and Devstral models within production environments.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Establish and configure self-hosted environments for Mistral and Devstral models.
• Apply fine-tuning techniques to enhance domain-specific performance.
• Implement versioning, monitoring, and lifecycle governance mechanisms.
• Ensure security, compliance, and responsible usage of open-source models.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Practical exercises focused on self-hosting and fine-tuning.
• Live-lab implementation of governance and monitoring pipelines.

Customization Options

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

This instructor-led live training in Porto (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of conversational agents and apply LangChain to real-world scenarios.

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

• Understand the fundamentals of LangChain and its application in building conversational agents.
• Develop and deploy conversational agents using LangChain.
• Integrate conversational agents with APIs and external services.
• Apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to improve the performance of conversational agents.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level professionals who wish to specialise in cutting-edge deep learning techniques for NLU.

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

• Understand the key differences between NLU and NLP models.
• Apply advanced deep learning techniques to NLU tasks.
• Explore deep architectures such as transformers and attention mechanisms.
• Leverage future trends in NLU for building sophisticated AI systems.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate to advanced AI developers, architects, and product managers who wish to identify and mitigate risks associated with LLM-powered applications, including prompt injection, data leakage, and unfiltered output, while incorporating security controls like input validation, human-in-the-loop oversight, and output guardrails.

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

• Understand the core vulnerabilities of LLM-based systems.
• Apply secure design principles to LLM app architecture.
• Use tools such as Guardrails AI and LangChain for validation, filtering, and safety.
• Integrate techniques like sandboxing, red teaming, and human-in-the-loop review into production-grade pipelines.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) targets intermediate-level professionals aiming to deploy, optimize, and integrate LLMs using Ollama.

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Set up and deploy LLMs using Ollama.
• Optimize AI models for enhanced performance and efficiency.
• Harness GPU acceleration to improve inference speeds.
• Integrate Ollama into workflows and applications.
• Monitor and maintain AI model performance over time.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (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 Porto (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 (available online or on-site) is designed for data scientists, machine learning engineers, NLP researchers, and AI enthusiasts who aim to grasp the inner workings of GPT models, investigate the capabilities of GPT-3 and GPT-4, and learn how to effectively utilise these models for their NLP tasks.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

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

LangGraph is a framework designed for constructing graph-structured LLM applications that facilitate planning, branching, tool usage, memory management, and controllable execution.

This instructor-led live training, available both online and onsite, targets beginner-level developers, prompt engineers, and data practitioners eager to design and build reliable, multi-step LLM workflows using LangGraph.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain core LangGraph concepts (nodes, edges, state) and when to use them.
• Build prompt chains that branch, call tools, and maintain memory.
• Integrate retrieval and external APIs into graph workflows.
• Test, debug, and evaluate LangGraph apps for reliability and safety.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and facilitated discussion.
• Guided labs and code walkthroughs in a sandbox environment.
• Scenario-based exercises on design, testing, and evaluation.

Course Customization Options

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

Unstructured data is estimated to constitute over 90% of all data, with a significant portion appearing as text. This volume continues to expand rapidly through blog posts, tweets, social media activity, and other digital publications.

This instructor-led, live course focuses on extracting valuable insights and meaning from this vast amount of information. By leveraging the R programming language and Natural Language Processing (NLP) libraries, we integrate concepts and techniques from computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics to algorithmically interpret the meaning within text data. Data samples are provided in various languages to meet specific customer needs.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be capable of preparing datasets (both large and small) from diverse sources and applying appropriate algorithms to analyze and report on their significance.

Format of the Course

• A blend of lectures and discussions, with a strong emphasis on hands-on practice and occasional assessments to evaluate understanding

This course is designed for managers, solutions architects, innovation officers, CTOs, software architects, and anyone seeking an overview of applied artificial intelligence and its near-term development forecast.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses a range of technologies designed to create intelligent systems that can interpret data and context to make "intelligent decisions". For telecom providers, leveraging AI in the development of applications and services can significantly enhance operational efficiency and service delivery, particularly in areas such as maintenance and network optimization.

This course explores the various technologies that constitute AI and the skill sets necessary to implement them effectively. Throughout the program, we delve into specific AI applications within the telecom sector.

Audience

• Network engineers
• Network operations staff
• Telecom technical managers

Course Format

• A blend of lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises

This course is designed for developers and data scientists who wish to understand and implement artificial intelligence in their applications. It specifically focuses on data analysis, distributed AI, and natural language processing.

Chatbots are automated programs that mimic human conversation through chat interfaces. They enable organizations to optimize operational efficiency by offering faster and more streamlined user interaction channels.

During this instructor-led live training, participants will acquire the skills necessary to construct chatbots using Python.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the fundamental principles of chatbot development
• Construct, evaluate, deploy, and resolve issues with various types of chatbots using Python

Audience

• Developers

Course Format

• A blend of lectures, discussions, practical exercises, and intensive hands-on practice

Note

• To arrange customized training for this course, please get in touch with us.

In this instructor-led, live training in Porto, participants will learn to utilize Python libraries for NLP by building an application that processes a set of images and generates captions.

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

• Design and implement DL for NLP using Python libraries.
• Write Python code that reads a large volume of images and generates keywords.
• Develop Python code that generates captions based on the detected keywords.

This classroom-based training session will delve into NLP techniques alongside 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 (available online or onsite) is designed for 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 Porto (online or onsite) is designed for data scientists and developers who wish to use Spark NLP, built on top of Apache Spark, to develop, implement, and scale natural language text processing models and pipelines.

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

• Set up the necessary development environment to start building NLP pipelines with Spark NLP.
• Understand the features, architecture, and benefits of using Spark NLP.
• Use the pre-trained models available in Spark NLP to implement text processing.
• Learn how to build, train, and scale Spark NLP models for production-grade projects.
• Apply classification, inference, and sentiment analysis on real-world use cases (clinical data, customer behavior insights, etc.).

In the realm of Python Machine Learning, the Text Summarization feature allows users to ingest input text and generate a concise summary. This functionality is accessible via the command line or as a Python API/Library. A compelling use case is the rapid production of executive summaries, which is highly beneficial for organizations that must review substantial volumes of text data prior to creating reports and presentations.

During this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to utilize Python to develop a straightforward application that automatically generates summaries from input text.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Utilize a command-line tool designed for text summarization.
• Design and build Text Summarization code using Python libraries.
• Evaluate three Python summarization libraries: sumy 0.7.0, pysummarization 1.0.4, and readless 1.0.17.

Audience

• Developers
• Data Scientists

Format of the course

• A blend of lectures, discussions, exercises, and extensive hands-on practice.

TensorFlow™ is an open-source software library designed for numerical computation via data flow graphs.

SyntaxNet serves as a neural network-based Natural Language Processing framework built for TensorFlow.

Word2Vec facilitates the learning of vector representations for words, known as "word embeddings". It offers a highly computationally efficient predictive model for deriving word embeddings from raw text. This technology is available in two variations: the Continuous Bag-of-Words model (CBOW) and the Skip-Gram model (refer to Chapters 3.1 and 3.2 in Mikolov et al.).

When employed together, SyntaxNet and Word2Vec enable users to generate Learned Embedding models from Natural Language input.

Audience

This course is designed for developers and engineers who plan to integrate SyntaxNet and Word2Vec models into their TensorFlow graphs.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the structure and deployment mechanisms of TensorFlow
• Execute installation, production environment setup, architecture tasks, and configuration
• Assess code quality, perform debugging, and implement monitoring
• Implement advanced production-level tasks such as training models, embedding terms, constructing graphs, and logging