Intro to Text Mining for the Humanities with Python (MSc Digital Scholarship, University of Oxford)
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###### tags: `Humanities`, `Text Mining`, `Python`

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- **When:** MT 2023, Oct 18th, 20th, 27th, 9-12AM.
- [name=Nilo Pedrazzini (The Alan Turing Institute)]
- **Contact:** [e-mail]

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## Schedule

### Day 1

- 9:05-9:15: Introductions
- Name
- Academic background/interests
- Any previous experience coding?
- 9:15-9:30: **Overview of text mining**
- 9:30-10:30: **Python basics**
- 10:30-10:40: Coffee break
- 10:40-11:20: **Off-the shelf NLP tagging and quantitative data exploration** (1)
- 11:20-11:25: Catch a breath :)
- 11:25-11:55: **Off-the shelf NLP tagging and quantitative data exploration** (2)

### Day 2

- 9:05-9:15: Summary of previous class and questions
- 9:15-10:15: **Named Entity Recognition**
- 10:15-10:25: Coffee break
- 10:25-11:00: **Topic modelling and Sentiment analysis**
- 11:00-11:05: Catch a breath :)
- 11:05-11:55: **Network analysis**

### Day 3

- 9:05-9:15: Summary of previous class and questions
- 9:15-9:45: **Text as data: application of text-mining techniques to research questions: recent experiments**
- 9:45-10:15: **Intro to Word2Vec** (1)
- 10:15-10:25: Coffee break
- 10:25-11:00: **Intro to Word2Vec** (2)
- 11:00-11:05: Catch a breath :)
- 11:05-11:55: **Using language models to track semantic change**

## Materials
- [Public GitHub repo](https://github.com/npedrazzini/oxford-text-mining)