MACHINE LEARNING FOR TEXT

Catalog description

This course focuses on the fundamental techniques for extraction of various insights from text data which is ubiquitous on the Web, social media sites, emails, news articles, digital libraries, and other sources. The course topics will include concepts and techniques used by search engines to crawl, index, and rank web pages on the Web, machine learning techniques for categorization of news articles into different categories, sentiment and opinion analysis of social media chats, text summarization, and information extraction.