This course will cover the major techniques for mining and analyzing text data to discover interesting patterns, extract useful knowledge, and support decision making, with an emphasis on statistical approaches that can be generally applied to arbitrary text data in any natural language with no or minimum human effort.
This course is part of the Data Mining Specialization
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Data Clustering AlgorithmsText MiningProbabilistic ModelsSentiment Analysis
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got a tangible career benefit from this course
10%
got a pay increase or promotion
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Course 3 of 6 in the
Approx. 33 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
2 hours to complete
Orientation
You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.
2 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 15 min), 5 readings, 2 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Week 1
During this module, you will learn the overall course design, an overview of natural language processing techniques and text representation, which are the foundation for all kinds of text-mining applications, and word association mining with a particular focus on mining one of the two basic forms of word associations (i.e., paradigmatic relations).
4 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 109 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Week 2
During this module, you will learn more about word association mining with a particular focus on mining the other basic form of word association (i.e., syntagmatic relations), and start learning topic analysis with a focus on techniques for mining one topic from text.
4 hours to complete
10 videos (Total 116 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes
10 hours to complete
Week 3
During this module, you will learn topic analysis in depth, including mixture models and how they work, Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and how it can be used to estimate parameters of a mixture model, the basic topic model, Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA), and how Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) extends PLSA.
10 hours to complete
10 videos (Total 103 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes
5 hours to complete
Week 4
During this module, you will learn text clustering, including the basic concepts, main clustering techniques, including probabilistic approaches and similarity-based approaches, and how to evaluate text clustering. You will also start learning text categorization, which is related to text clustering, but with pre-defined categories that can be viewed as pre-defining clusters.
5 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 141 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM TEXT MINING AND ANALYTICS
by JHFeb 9, 2017
Excellent course, the pipeline they propose to help you understand text mining is quite helpful. It has an important introduction to the most key concepts and techniques for text mining and analytics.
by DCMar 24, 2018
The content of Text Mining and Analytics is very comprehensive and deep. More practise about how formula works would be better. Quiz could be not tough to be completed after attending every lectures.
by ACFeb 11, 2017
This is a very good course. I think it provides a very good foundation of text mining and analytics like PLSA and LDA. More advanced research discussed in the last lecture is also very interesting.
by JSJun 6, 2017
The content was very useful, and the preparation of the course denoted much care and preparation by the teacher. I would love to see some modern topics like word embeddings covered in the course!
About the Data Mining Specialization
The Data Mining Specialization teaches data mining techniques for both structured data which conform to a clearly defined schema, and unstructured data which exist in the form of natural language text. Specific course topics include pattern discovery, clustering, text retrieval, text mining and analytics, and data visualization. The Capstone project task is to solve real-world data mining challenges using a restaurant review data set from Yelp.
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