Linux, Python, Perl and other training courses and seminars: Python Text Processing Course

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Natural Language processing (NLP) is a scientific field where computer science and linguistics meet, it's overlapping with computational linguistics. It began as a branch of artificial intelligence. NLP deals with the interactions between computers and human languages, i.e. natural languages.

"Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart."
(Thomas Shadwell)

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"Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python, and we're looking for more people with skills in this language." said Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, Inc.

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." (Nelson Mandela)

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Python Text Processing Course

When we use the term "natural language", we are speaking about spoken languages such as English, French or German and not artificial languages like computer programming languages. Technologies based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) are becoming increasingly widespread. Corresponding to this growth, the demand for specialists in NLP is rapidly prospering.
This seminar demonstrates the enormous NLP possibilities of Python. It is comprised of both a brief introduction to the Python programming language Python, as well as a practical introduction to NLP with actual computer programs. The seminar begins with examples as simple as counting word frequencies, continues with text classification (document classification) and ends with analyzing the semantic meaning of sentences in natural languages like English or German. You will learn to manipulate large corpora, explore linguistic models, and test empirical claims. At the end of the course you will have learnt how to build robust systems to perform linguistic tasks by using Python and the open source library NLTK, Natural Language Toolkit.

Target Group:
This seminar is intended for people who want to learn how to write programs to analyze written natural language. Prior programming experience is not necessary but recommended.

Our other Python-Courses:

Content:

An intensive 3 to 5 days training course in the Python language on the shores of Lake Ontario. The course provides a hands-on introduction to the Python language and how it interacts with Natural Language Processing.

Introduction into the programming language Python: data types, assignments, conditional statements, for loops and the special data types lists, tuples and dictionaries, functions
The essentials of file handling
Regular Expressions
Categorizing and Tagging Words
Text Classification
Extracting Information from Texts
Analyzing Sentence Structures
Building Feature Based Grammars
Analyzing the Meaning of Sentences

Of course, like all of our courses, we can tailor this Python course to meet your specific goals. Please, don't hesitate to contact us.

Lecturer:
Bernd Klein is a computer scientist, who is a well-known expert both in Python and in Natural Language Processing.

Dates:

From Mon, 7th May, 2012 until Fri, 11th May, 2012 (5 days)
From Mon, 11th Jun, 2012 until Fri, 15th Jun, 2012 (5 days)
From Mon, 16th Jul, 2012 until Fri, 20th Jul, 2012 (5 days)
From Mon, 13th Aug, 2012 until Fri, 17th Aug, 2012 (5 days)
From Mon, 3rd Sep, 2012 until Fri, 7th Sep, 2012 (5 days)

Duration:
5 days

The price for this course:
$ 649,- per day (exclusive of HST)

Attention:

The price comprises:
A copy of "Natural Language Processing with Python" by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper