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Time (Lecture) Mondays, 3. DS and 5. DS
Location APB/E001
Department Computer Science
Modules INF-BAS3 (Software- und Web-Engineering)
Language English
Assessment oral exam
The lecture will introduce you to social science research questions and findings, while the exercise will give you the practical skills to answer social questions yourself using computational tools. The first part focuses on basic techniques of text analysis. We will learn how to collect text data from sources such as newspapers, parliamentary minutes or social media, and how to pre-process it for natural language processing (NLP), such as sentiment analysis.