MSE 641 - Text Analytics

With the rapid growth of unstructured natural language data, such as web pages, blogs, product reviews, news articles and enterprise data, there is an increasing need for systems that would retrieve relevant documents, extract specific information from them, mine opinions, summarize and categorize texts. This course provides students with an understanding of the major methods for retrieving, mining and analyzing textual data, with the emphasis on algorithms, techniques and their evaluation.