Hands-on Text Mining and Analytics

This course provides an unique opportunity for you to learn key components of text mining and analytics aided by the real world datasets and the text mining toolkit written in Java. Hands-on experience in core text mining techniques including text preprocessing, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling help learners be trained to be a competent data scientists.

Empowered by bringing lecture notes together with lab sessions based on the y-TextMiner toolkit developed for the class, learners will be able to develop interesting text mining applications.

Course Logistics and the Text Mining Tool for the Course

Text Preprocessing

Text Analysis Techniques

Term Weighting and Document Classification

Sentiment Analysis

Topic Modeling