Text Classification with Classical NLP
Free Beginner course · 10 lessons · 2 weeks · Certificate on completion
Classify reviews, tickets and emails with fast, explainable NLP before reaching for LLMs. Across 10 lessons you'll move from fundamentals to a portfolio-ready outcome — at your own pace, with quizzes after each lesson and a final exam to certify your mastery.
What you'll learn
- Text as data
- Tokenisation and cleaning
- Bag-of-words and TF-IDF
- Naive Bayes and logistic regression
- Linear SVMs
- N-grams and features
Skills you'll pick up
- Text as data
- Tokenisation and cleaning
- Bag-of-words and TF-IDF
- Naive Bayes and logistic regre
- Linear SVMs
- N-grams and features
Tools covered
- Text Classification
- Real-world projects
- Quizzes
- Final exam
Course modules
Module 1: Text as data
Module 1 of Text Classification with Classical NLP. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 2: Naive Bayes and logistic regression
Module 2 of Text Classification with Classical NLP. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 3: Evaluation for text tasks
Module 3 of Text Classification with Classical NLP. 2 lessons · 2h
Module 4: When to switch to transformers
Module 4 of Text Classification with Classical NLP. 2 lessons · 2h
Lessons in this course
- Text as data
- Tokenisation and cleaning
- Bag-of-words and TF-IDF
- Naive Bayes and logistic regression
- Linear SVMs
- N-grams and features
- Evaluation for text tasks
- Topic modelling with LDA
- When to switch to transformers
- Project: support-ticket router
Instructor
Marcus Reid — Machine Learning Engineer
Marcus Reid is a Machine Learning Engineer with years of hands-on experience teaching Text Classification to thousands of learners worldwide.
Certificate
Finish every lesson and pass the final exam to earn a free, verifiable Learnera certificate for Text Classification with Classical NLP. It can be downloaded as a PDF and shared on LinkedIn.
Career outcomes
Median global salary $105,000 per year · median India salary ₹14,70,000 per year · 101,467 open roles worldwide
- Text Classification Specialist
- Senior Text Classification Lead
- Text Classification Consultant
Frequently asked questions
Is the Text Classification with Classical NLP course free?
Yes. Every Learnera course, including Text Classification with Classical NLP, is completely free — lessons, quizzes, the final exam, and the certificate.
How long does Text Classification with Classical NLP take?
10 lessons, typically completed in 2 weeks at a comfortable pace.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes — pass the final exam and you receive a free, verifiable certificate you can share on LinkedIn.