AI Rookies Natural Language Processing

Start your NLP journey by mastering the messy middle-text preprocessing. This beginner-friendly guide introduces you to the core skills every aspiring NLP practitioner needs, such as cleaning and tokenizing text, handling stop words, stemming and lemmatization, and converting text into features. You'll then explore foundational tasks like text classification and sentiment analysis using real-world datasets. With no-code and plain-language explanations, this book makes natural language processing approachable and practical-even if you're just getting started. Pair this book with companion books with lab exercises to practice (available in R and Orange), slides, solution guides and more available resources at our website to bring your learning analytics to life.