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I'm very interested too. (Though, I don't know if you're saying this would be at a Code4Lib conference, if so I won't be there. But if you're thinking of doing this virtually I'd love to). Brad On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Dhanushka Samarakoon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > -- Brad Coffield, MLIS Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian Saint Francis University 814-472-3315 [log in to unmask]