Introduction to Natural Language Processing

Natural language processing (NLP) and text mining are the art and science of extracting insights from large amounts of natural language. The course topics covered help students add natural language processing techniques to their research, business, and data science toolset. As a technical course with some machine learning elements, limited exposure to programming, graduate-level statistics and mathematical theory is needed, but the vast majority of the course content is focused on applying popular text mining methods. As a result, the target audience may also include qualitative researchers looking to add quantitative analysis to interviews, media, and other language-based field research.