Offered on an irregular basis
PREREQUISITES:
MAS students: Completion of the MAS Core courses, plus permission of the instructor.
MLIS and Dual students: Some electives can be taken in conjunction with the MLIS Core courses; consult with the MLIS Program Chair for recommendations.
GOALS:
The goals of this course are
- To explore the nature of text as a data source for knowledge discovery
- To demonstrate the types of information which can be extracted from text, and the applications in which it is used
- To explore the techniques by which text is automatically processed
- To examine the tools which support various types of text processing
- To demonstrate the types of information which can be extracted from text
OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
- Discuss the various ways in which text can be analyzed, and appropriate uses of these techniques
- Design a project for textual analysis suitable for a specific domain
- Use open source text analytic tools
- Evaluate the potential of information visualization in support of textual analysis
- Undertake a content analysis using standard software support.
CONTENT:
- Overview
- Techniques and toolkits
- Applications
- Bibliometrics and Webometrics
- Natural language processing
- Text mining/analytics
- Content analysis
- Information visualization
- Sentiment Analysis
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