LIBR 559N (3) Text Analytics

Offered on an irregular basis

PREREQUISITES:

MLIS and Dual MAS/MLIS: Completion of the core
MAS: completion of MAS core and permission of the iSchool Graduate Advisor

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