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Natural Language Processing - Professional Diploma - UL@Work

Expand your employment choices with sought after Natural Language Processing skills and open the door to a broad range of career options.

Key information

EU fees per year €5,250
NFQ Level NFQ Level 9 Minor
Duration One year
Attendance Part-time
Programme type Taught, Professional / Flexible
Delivery Online
Start date September
Award Professional Diploma

Acquire in-demand skills and enhance your career opportunities with UL’s one-year, part-time Professional Diploma in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Delivered part-time and entirely online, it equips learners with foundational and advanced skills in statistical NLP techniques used in real-world systems like chatbots, grammar checkers, sentiment analysis, and text classification.

With a combination of practical assignments and expert-led instruction, participants gain a robust understanding of the computational and linguistic methods required to translate natural language into actionable data.

Ideal for graduates in computing, engineering, mathematics, science, or technology disciplines, as well as professionals with quantitative backgrounds looking to pivot into NLP and AI-driven language applications.

This programme will earn 30 ECTS credits towards aFlexible Masters Pathway, allowing students to combine Postgraduate awards to achieve a Master’s over time.

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During this programme, you will

  • Learn key techniques used in natural language processing, like text analysis, spelling correction, and sentiment detection.
  • Build practical skills by creating tools such as chatbots and text classifiers
  • Gain hands-on experience with real-world applications of NLP.
  • Learn how to design code and implement solutions to a range of NLP-related problems in your workplace and to build natural language processing solutions that work well.
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