CS 411: Text Mining
Number of Sections: 1 | Days and Times: Tuesdays & Thursdays (13:30-15:10 ICT)
Course Description
This course gives an overview over different text mining algorithms and related disciplines such as web scraping. Requirements for this class are completion of basic Mathematics and Statistics modules, as well as the Introduction to Python and Introduction to Machine Learning. Throughout the class, we will cover the specifics of text data and learn how to pre-process it to make it usable in algorithms. We will cover two different techniques for gathering text data, namely web scraping and working with APIs. And we will see some algorithms for Natural Language Processing.
Prerequisites:
CS 210: Programming with Python
CS 300: Introduction to Machine Learning