Text mining with R

Course details

statistics course | level: beginner | register now
for questions related to this event, contact jarl.kampen@uantwerp.be
affiliation: University of Antwerp

Abstract

This Friday Methods Session gives a basic overview of the field of text mining. The focus is on tools and topics to be discussed are types vs. tokens, linguistic frequencies (Zipf’s law) and co-occurrences, n-grams, collocations and keywords. All tools will be exemplified in R, so a basic knowledge of the R language is necessary.

Prerequisites

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

Background readings

Fee

Normal fees apply. Priority is given to PhD students in FLAMES partner institutions.

Venue

A Zoom invite will be sent to this workshop.

Instructor

Dr Koen Plevoets (UGhent)