Advanced : Python Text Processing Course

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This course is run in German as well: Python, Textverarbeitung, Textklassifikation

Natural Language processing (NLP) is a scientific field where computer science and linguistics meet, it's overlapping with computational linguistics. NLP is concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.

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"Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language." said Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, Inc.

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Python Text Processing Course

By "natural language" we mean languages like English, French or German and not artificial languages like programming languages. Technologies based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) are becoming increasingly widespread, and the demand for specialists is continually growing.
This course shows the enormous NLP possibilities of Python. It's both a brief introduction in the programming language Python and a practical introduction into NLP with real programs. The seminar starts with examples as simple as counting word frequencies, continues with text classification (document classification) and ends with analysing the semantic meaning of sentences in natural languages like English or German. You will learn to manipulate large corpora, explore linguistic models, and test empirical claims. At the end of the course you will have learnt how to build robust systems to perform linguistic tasks by using Python and the open source library NLTK, Natural Language Toolkit.

Target Group:
This seminar is intended for people who want to learn how to write programs to analyse written natural language. Prior programming experience is not necessary but recommended.

Our other Python-Courses:

Content:

Introduction into the programming language Python: data types, assignments, conditional statements, for loops and the special data types lists, tuples and dictionaries, functions
The essentials of file handling
Regular Expressions
Categorizing and Tagging Words
Text Classification
Extracting Information from Texts
Analysing Sentence Structures
Building Feature Based Grammars
Analysing the Meaning of Sentences

Of course, like all of our courses, we can also tailor this one as well to meet your specific needs. Please, don't hesitate to contact us.

Dates:

From Mon, 25th Feb, 2013 until Fri, 1st Mar, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 18th Mar, 2013 until Fri, 22nd Mar, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 22nd Apr, 2013 until Fri, 26th Apr, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 6th May, 2013 until Fri, 10th May, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 17th Jun, 2013 until Fri, 21st Jun, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 19th Aug, 2013 until Fri, 23rd Aug, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 23rd Sep, 2013 until Fri, 27th Sep, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 28th Oct, 2013 until Fri, 1st Nov, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 11th Nov, 2013 until Fri, 15th Nov, 2013 (5 days)
From Mon, 9th Dec, 2013 until Fri, 13th Dec, 2013 (5 days)

Duration of the course:
5 days

The fees for this course:
449,- € per day (exclusive of VAT)
(The total amount includes 349,- € for the course and 100,- € for board and lodging)

Attention:

The price comprises:
A copy of "Natural Language Processing with Python" by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper