The ABC of Computational Text Analysis

#11 NLP with Python II +
Working Session

Alex Flückiger

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Lucerne

19 May 2022

Recap last Lecture

  • perform NLP with spaCy 🔤
    • Named Entities, linguistic information …
  • create a textacy corpus from text files 📑
  • export basic statistics 🧮

Assignment #3

📣 When you cannot import the packages or load the model, reach out!

Outline

  • export your own dataset as .csv 📦

  • explore + visualize 🎨

    • explore corpus interactively
    • visualize word frequencies

  • work on mini-project

Mini-Project Presentations

  • ~8 projects
  • presentations on 2 June 2022
    • 8 minutes per group
    • +1 min preparation
    • +1 min feedback

Prepare Presentation

  • talk, slides, and plots …
    • Motivation: What did you explore?
    • Data & Methods: What data and methods did you use?
    • Results & Discussion: What did you find out?
  • connect your laptop with projector


📈 visualize to drive your point home

Continue our Journey on NLP for Social Science

  • check code on GitHub
  • run code on Binder Binder