The assignments are much harder than the slides, which means much more self-learning is required.

I'm auditing this course, as I don't have enough to get the certificate. I hugely recommend it. It's well explained.

I will not say that I did not learn anything. I just wish the autograder was a little better. Basically, quite frustrating to fight a black-box grader. An example of a better autograder is the one implemented by the Princeton people for their algorithm courses.

The instructor provided very low quality material.

The course presented a good content for beginners in NLP and I feel confident to start using what I learned in my work. But, the grader for the assignments is too slow and buggy, this should be fixed so new learners don't feel frustrated. In addition, for assignment 4, the lda trainning parameters are not viable for trainning in coursera's environment, it should be reviewed.

Some of the topics where elaborated very briefly. There was not enough practical examples and instructor was no clear in what he was saying.

Excellent course

This course was outstanding - excellent lectures, notes and examples!

Excellent course, you must to take it and work by yourself in the Assignments

A good intro to NLTK and text mining in Python, though sometimes the effort put in to render an assignment acceptable to the autograder was a headache.