Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python

Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers a gentle introduction to Python and the NLTK; learn how to compute against your readings.

Python is a very popular programming language for doing text mining and natural language processing. The Natural Langauge Toolkit (NLTK) is a very popular suite of Python modules making the process of text mining easier.

This workshop is as gentle introduction to Python and the NLTK. It will demonstrate some of the Toolkit's functionality. By the end of the workshop you will have dipped your toe into the waters of Python and been exposed to the inner workings of the NLTK.

Open to Graduate Students, Undergraduates, Faculty, Staff, Postdocs

Instructed By
Digital Initiatives Librarian, Eric Morgan
emorgan@nd.edu

Eric Morgan is the Digital Initiatives Librarian in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship. His current work focuses on assisting faculty and students with text mining and analysis. Though his work involves extensive computing expertise, Eric considers himself to be a librarian first, and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to provide better library service. His research interests have included information retrieval, expert systems, and automated personalization.