Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2019 - CMPT 318 D100

Special Topics in Computing Science (3)

Comp.Sci:Doing Things w/Words

Class Number: 6515

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 3 – Apr 8, 2019: Tue, 10:30–11:20 a.m.
    Burnaby

    Jan 3 – Apr 8, 2019: Thu, 9:30–11:20 a.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Apr 12, 2019
    Fri, 8:30–11:30 a.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    CMPT 225. Additional prerequisites to be determined by the instructor subject to approval by the undergraduate program chair.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Special topics in computing science at the 300 level. Topics that are of current interest or are not covered in regular curriculum will be offered from time to time depending on availability of faculty and student interest.

COURSE DETAILS:

Text analytics as a sub-domain of data mining, the role of corpus linguistics, types, tokens, n-grams and parts-of-speech, readability, sentiment analysis and text classification. The rise of Big Data and the recognized potential of data mining and machine learning, have increased research attention on collections of text as a readily available data type.

In this course, students will be introduced to concepts and techniques for textual analysis, both as a basis for simple text mining and as input to text classification problems. Topics will include the roles and application of corpora, Unix-based techniques for quantitative analyses of textual data, part-of-speech tagging, document forensics, readability and sentiment analysis.


Topics

  • The nature of textual analysis
  • Corpus linguistics
  • Words, types and tokens
  • Working with n-grams
  • Investigating a kidnapping
  • Varieties of words
  • Readability
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Text classification

Grading

NOTES:

Midterm exam 30%; Term paper 20%; Final exam 50% (tentative).

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

* Electronic readings will be assigned.

Registrar Notes:

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