Digital Humanities and NLP

Welcome to series of workshops designed to provide you with a robust foundation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its related technologies. Each session below is crafted to offer practical, hands-on experience. Join us in this learning journey to unlock the full potential of NLP technologies.

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01 Gentle Introduction to NLP

Introduction to the popular NLP Python package, the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), and expose you to common methodologies for wrangling textual data

02 Regex

How use regular expressions (AKA regex) for simple text processing

03 Webscraping I

Static Webscraping with BeautifulSoup

04 Webscraping II

Dynamic Webscraping with Selenium

05 Webscraping III

The Art of Webscraping: Scraping Reddit

06 Creating a simple search engine with Whoosh

How to create and customize your own search engine so that you can easily and quickly search through your data

07 Textual Feature Extraction using Traditional Machine Learning

How to conduct feature extraction on text using sci-kit learn

08 Topic Modeling using Traditional Machine Learning

How to conduct topic modelling on text using sci-kit learn

09 Language Hacking

Using spaCy for Morphosyntactic Analysis

10 NER with spaCy

Extracting Ancient Placenames using Named Entity Recognition and spaCy