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Spring 2018, Text Mining

The course is Python-based course.

  • Microsoft Azure Notebooks (https://notebooks.azure.com/) or IPython notebooks
    • These two programming environments are similar
    • If you have IPython notes installed on your computer you can continue using it.
    • If you do not have IPython notes installed on your computer you can either install IPython notes or create a free account with Microsoft Azure Notebooks
    • For the Python portion of the class I will be distributing .ipynb files (notebooks)
    • The assignments and project will be submitted at .ipynb files (notebooks)
  • On-line Books:
    • NLTK (http://www.nltk.org/) and the corresponding book “Natural Language Processing with Python”: http://www.nltk.org/book/
    • Manning, Raghavan, and Schutze. 2008. Introduction to Information Retrieval (https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/). Cambridge University Press. [MRS]
    • Research papers and links to other reading materials will be posted for every class