ANLY 520 - Natural Language Processing: Text Summarization and Classification

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: ANLY 500
Description: Web technologies based on text and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are becoming the backbone of analytic solutions for understanding language as text language processing has come to play a central role in the multilingual information society. This course provides a highly accessible introduction to the field of text analytics focusing on processing text, information extraction with named entity recognition, text summarization and generation, text classification, chatbots, and deep learning toolkits. The course is a practical guide on how to create end to end systems for production in business, research, and other applied fields using *R* and Python programming languages.