Text Analytics 101

From social media to news articles to machine logs, text data is everywhere. This class will teach you about Information Extraction: how to extract structured data from text in order to derive valuable insights. You will learn about information extraction applications in various domains, such as social media, healthcare analytics, and financial risk analysis. You will explore common text analytics tasks, including entity, relation, and event extraction, as well as sentiment analysis. Finally, you will dive into "Declarative Information Extraction", a powerful method for doing high-performance and high-quality text analytics, and gain hands-on experience writing your own extractors.