Natural Language ProcessingIntroduces Natural Language Processing, covering text preprocessing, sentiment analysis, and topic analysis, with a focus on building a climate change risk index.
Latent Semantic IndexingCovers Latent Semantic Indexing, word embeddings, and the skipgram model with negative sampling.
Information retrieval: vector spaceCovers the basics of information retrieval using vector space models and practical exercises on relevance feedback and posting list scanning.
Data Mining: IntroductionCovers the challenges and opportunities of data mining, practical questions, algorithm components, and applications like shopping basket analysis.