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Big data and Language 1 (Coursera)

Offered by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - KAIST,

In this course, students will understand characteristics of language through big data. Students will learn how to collect and analyze big data, and find linguistic features from the data. A number of approaches to the linguistic analysis of written and spoken texts will be discussed.

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The class will consist of lecture videos which are approximately 1 hour and a quiz for each week. There will be a final project which requires students to conduct research on text data and language.

Syllabus

WEEK 1: Introduction to Big Data and Language
WEEK 2: Spoken and Written Data
WEEK 3: Corpus and Register
WEEK 4: Parts of Speech

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