Text Mining
Faculty
Sergey Khoroshenkikh
Senior Software Engineer at Yandex
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Skills you’ll learn
Overview
Natural Language Processing (NLP) field has gained increased attention in recent years because of impressive algorithmic advances in Deep Learning and significant progress in hardware.
Text Mining is a subset of NLP focused on unsupervised and semi-supervised algorithms of text analysis.
The course covers the main algorithms and concepts of Text Mining, including both “classical” methods from Information Retrieval domain (like TF-IDF and topic modeling) and modern Deep Learning architectures.
Learning highlights
- What types of problems can be solved with Text Mining
- Which algorithms are used for various Text Mining problems
- How to use practical tools for Text Mining
Course outline
4 classes
Session 1
Introduction
Session 2
Language models and text classification
Session 3
Topic modeling
Session 4
Word vectors
Prerequisites
This course is one of three in a wholistic series.
Students that have already taken MSL-111 and those with prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript building simple web pages will be good candidates for this module.
Sergey Khoroshenkikh is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience in applied machine learning and data analysis. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2015. At Yandex, he has been working on large-scale machine learning solutions for web advertising as well as routing algorithms for Yandex Delivery.
Research/Academic Interests: Random graphs, complex networks
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Text Mining
by Sergey Khoroshenkikh
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
May 18 - Jun 05, 2020
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
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Can I get a discount?
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