Applied Text Mining in Python

This course will introduce the learner to text mining and text manipulation basics. The course begins with an understanding of how text is handled by python, the structure of text both to the machine and to humans, and an overview of the nltk framework for manipulating text. The second week focuses on common manipulation needs, including regular expressions (searching for text), cleaning text, and preparing text for use by machine learning processes. The third week will apply basic natural langu

• Understand how text is handled in Python
• Apply basic natural language processing methods
• Write code that groups documents by topic
• Describe the NLTK framework for manipulating text

• Intermediate Python knowledge