This course will cover the major techniques for mining and analyzing text data to discover interesting patterns, extract useful knowledge, and support decision making, with an emphasis on statistical approaches that can be generally applied to arbitrary text data in any natural language with no or minimum human effort. Detailed analysis of text data requires understanding of natural language text, which is known to be a difficult task for computers. However, a number of statistical approaches have been shown to work well for the "shallow" but robust analysis of text data for pattern finding and knowledge discovery. You will learn the basic concepts, principles, and major algorithms in text mining and their potential applications.
Introduction to Text Mining and Analytics
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Text Mining and Analytics
358 calificaciones
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
358 calificaciones
Curso 3 de 6 en SpecializationData Mining
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Orientation
You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.
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ChengXiang ZhaiProfessor
Department of Computer Science
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Hello.
Welcome to the course Text Mining and Analytics.
My name is ChengXiang Zhai.
I have a nickname, Cheng.
I am a professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This course is a part of a data mining specialization
offered by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In addition to this course, there are four other courses offered by
Professor Jiawei Han, Professor John Hart and me, followed by
a capstone project course that all of us will teach together.
This course is particularly related to another course in the specialization,
mainly text retrieval and search engines in that both courses are about text data.
In contrast, pattern discovery and cluster analysis are about
algorithms more applicable to all kinds of data in general.
The visualization course is also relatively general in that the techniques
can be applied to all kinds of data.
This course addresses a pressing need for harnessing big text data.
Text data has been growing dramatically recently,
mostly because of the advance of technologies deployed on the web
that would enable people to quickly generate text data.
So, I listed some of the examples on this slide
that can show a variety of text data that are available today.
For example, if you think about the data on the internet, on the web,
everyday we are seeing many web pages being created.
Blogs are another kind of new text data that
are being generated quickly by people.
Anyone can write a blog article on the web.
New articles of course have always been
a main kind of text data that being generated everyday.
Emails are yet another kind of text data.
And literature is also representing a large portion of text data.
It's also especially very important because of the high quality
in the data.
That is, we encode our knowledge about the word
using text data represented by all the literature articles.
It's a vast amount of knowledge of
all the text and data in these literature articles.
Twitter is another representative text data representing social media.
Of course there are forums as well.
People are generating tweets very quickly
indeed as we are speaking perhaps many people have already written many tweets.
So, as you can see there are all kinds of text data
that are being generated very quickly.
Now these text data present some challenges for people.
It's very hard for anyone to digest all the text data quickly.
In particular, it's impossible for scientists to read all of the for
example or for anyone to read all the tweets.
So there's a need for tools to help people digest text data more efficiently.
There is also another interesting opportunity
provided by such big text data, and that is it's possible to leverage
the amount of text data to discover interesting patterns to
turn text data into actionable knowledge that can be useful for decision making.
So for example, product managers may be interested
in knowing the feedback of customers about their products,
knowing how well their products are being received as
compared with the products of competitors.
This can be a good opportunity for
leveraging text data as we have seen a lot of reviews of product on the web.
So if we can develop a master text mining techniques to tap into such
a [INAUDIBLE] to extract the knowledge and opinions of people about these products,
then we can help these product managers to gain business intelligence or
to essentially feedback from their customers.
In scientific research, for example,
scientists are interested in knowing the trends of research topics, knowing
about what related fields have discovered.
This problem is especially important in biology research as well.
Different communities tend to use different terminologies, yet
they're starting very similar problems.
So how can we integrate the knowledge that is covered in different communities
to help study a particular problem?
It's very important, and it can speed up scientific discovery.
So there are many such examples where we can leverage the text data
to discover useable knowledge to optimize our decision.
The main techniques for
harnessing big text data are text retrieval and text mining.
So these are two very much related technologies.Yet,
they have somewhat different purposes.
These two kinds of techniques are covered in the tool in this specialization.
So, text retrieval on search engines covers text retrieval,
and this is necessary to turn big text data into
a much smaller but more relevant text data, which are often the data that
we need to handle a particular problem or to optimize a particular decision.
This course covers text mining which is a second step in this pipeline
that can be used to further process the small amount of relevant data
to extract the knowledge or to help people digest the text data easily.
So the two courses are clearly related, in fact,
some of the techniques are shared by both text retrieval and text mining.
If you have already taken the text retrieval course, then you might see
some of the content being repeated in this text mining course, although
we'll be talking about the techniques from a very different perspective.
If you have not taken the text retrieval course,
it's also fine because this course is self-contained and
you can certainly understand all of the materials without a problem.
Of course, you might find it beneficial to take both courses and
that will give you a very complete set of skills to handle big text data.
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