Text mining (online)

Course details

statistics course | level: beginner | register now
affiliation: University of Antwerp

Abstract

In this Friday Methods Session, a comprehensive overview of the field of text mining is offered. The focus is on tools, and topics to be discussed are stemming, tokenization, part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization, keyword extraction and collocations, (hidden) Markov models, text classifications and information retrieval, sentiment analysis and topic modelling.

Prerequisites

All tools will be exemplified in R, so a basic knowledge of the R language is necessary.

Background readings

Fee

Venue

online

Instructor

Dr Koen Plevoets (UGhent)