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What they said - +1! -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dhanushka Samarakoon Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 3:17 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] hands-on workshop on natural language processing & text mining I'm interested too. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > I love it! > > On 11/9/17, 1:13 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Eric Lease > Morgan" < [log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I’m thinking about a hands-on workshop on natural language > processing & text mining, below, and your feedback is desired. —ELM > > > Natural language processing & text mining using freely available > tools: "No programming necessary" > > This text outlines a hands-on natural language & text mining workshop. > > It is possible to do simple & rudimentary natural language > processing & text mining with a set of freely available tools. No > programming is necessary. This workshop facilitates hands-on exercises > demonstrating how this can be done. By participating in this workshop, > students & researchers will be able to: > > * identify patterns, anomalies, and trends in their texts > * practice both "distant" and "scalable" reading > * enhance & complement their ability to do "close" reading > * use & understand a corpus of poetry or prose at scale > > Activities in the workshop include: > > * learning what natural language processing is, and why you > should care > * articulating a research question > * creating a corpus > * creating a plain text version of a corpus with Tika [1] > * using Voyant Tools to do some "distant" reading" [2] > * using a concordance (AntConc) to facilitate searching keywords > in context [3] > * creating a simple word list with a text editor > * cleaning & analyzing word lists with OpenRefine [4] > * charting & graphing word lists with Tableau Public [5] > * increasing meaning by extracting parts-of-speech with the > Standford POS Tagger [6] > * increasing meaning some by extracting named entities with the > Standford NER [7] > * identifying themes and clustering documents using MALLET [8] > > Anybody with sets of texts can benefit from this workshop. Any > corpus of textual content is apropos: journal articles, books, the > complete run of a magazine, blog postings, Tweets, press releases, > conference proceedings, websites, poetry, etc. This workshop is > computer (Windows, Linux, > Macintosh) agnostic. All the software used in this workshop is freely > available on the 'Net, or it is already installed on one's computer. > Active participation requires zero programming, but students must > bring their own computer, and they must not be afraid of their > computer's command line interface. > > This workshop will not make participants an expert in natural > language processing, but it will empower them to make better sense of > large sets of textual information. > > [1] Tika - http://tika.apache.org > [2] Voyant - http://voyant-tools.org > [3] AntConc - http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/ > [4] OpenRefine - http://openrefine.org > [5] Tableau Public - https://public.tableau.com/ > [6] POS Tagger - https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tagger.shtml > [7] NER - https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml > [8] MALLET - http://mallet.cs.umass.edu > > >