This is a hands-on introduction to Natural Language Processing (or NLP), a set of techniques involving the application of statistical methods, with or without insights from linguistics, to understand natural (i.e, human) language for the sake of solving real-world tasks.This is a hands-on introduction to Natural Language Processing (or NLP), a set of techniques involving the application of statistical methods, with or without insights from linguistics, to understand natural (i.e, human) language for the sake of solving real-world tasks.This course is designed to equip researchers in the humanities and social sciences with the foundational skills needed to carry over text-based research projects.