Text Analysis with Python - Not offered in AY 2022-23

This course will teach you how to extract meaningful data and information from text. It will introduce the student to the basics of manipulation and mining of text. It will cover the most commonly used tools for retrieval of information and use of text as data. We will begin with a general introduction of Python and an understanding of how text is handled by Python. Then cover the use of regular expressions, cleaning text, and preparing text for use. We will then apply basic natural language processing methods and machine learning tools to demonstrate how text classification is performed. We will also explore methods for sentiment analysis, topics detection and modelling.