Announcing Machine Learning Text Processing Course!

[Tricia Hoffman]

Register for the class at http://events.linkedin.com/Machine-Learning-Natural-Language-Text/pub/818562.  If you would like to take the class remotely, add a comment to that effect. 

 

Machine Learning Text Processing

Starts Wednesday October 26, 2011

 

Course Schedule

10/26-10/27 - Introduction and Basic Text Manipulations

11/2-11/3 - Part of Speech Detection  

11/9-5/10 - Topic Modeling

11/16-11/17 – Machine Translation

11/30 – 12/1 - Text Classification

http://machinelearningtext.pbworks.com/w/page/46575731/FrontPage

THIS CLASS MEETS FROM 7PM to 9PM FOR 5 weeks.

The class meets Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

Overview of the course: This class will cover machine learning applied to natural language text documents. We will cover the use of statistical algorithms for accomplishing machine learning tasks on texts - not more traditional rule-based semantics, parsing, etc. We'll start with some introduction to the subject matter, comparison of statistical techniques to semantic approaches, definition of problems in text mining, and simple text manipulations. We'll cover various algorithms for dealing with standard text mining problems, such as indexing, automatic classification (e.g. spam filtering) part of speech identification, topic modeling, sentiment extraction, etc.

Cost for the Class Machine Learning is $300 for the five weeks.