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Description:

A brief introduction to Computational Linguistics by Giovanni De Gasperis, where we'll do some basic analyses by writing small Python programs.

Computational Linguistics is a multidisciplinary research area where linguists and computer scientists collaborate to analyze unstructured text in its primitive form, i.e. not actually trying to read it and doing natural language understanding, but more specifically calculating statistical properties out of large text corpora, independently from the language by which the text has been produced.

Typical results are: the most occurrent text forms in absolute or in relation to other forms, extract most significant keywords, build the corpus vocabulary. More advanced results are lemmatization, part of speech tagging, semantic categories tagging and much more.

A text will be downloaded from the web and it will be analyzed writing small Python programs that can produce some of the basic results mentioned above.

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