Fundamentals of NLP: Core Tasks, Tool Setup, and Hands‑On Projects
This article introduces the basics of Natural Language Processing, covering core tasks such as language understanding and generation, common applications, essential linguistic analyses, environment setup with Python libraries, hands‑on code examples for preprocessing, POS tagging, NER, sentiment analysis using both classical and transformer models, text generation with GPT‑2, and discusses challenges and Rust‑centric integration strategies.
