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Coursera online course: Introduction to Natural Language Processing

This course provides an introduction to the field of Natural Language Processing. It includes relevant background material in Linguistics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. Some of the topics covered in the class are Text Similarity, Part of Speech Tagging, Parsing, Semantics, Question Answering, Sentiment Analysis, and Text Summarization. The course includes quizzes, programming assignments in

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IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data

Presentation The quantitative analysis of textual data is an object of research in many sectors of linguistics, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics and it is used as a research tool within a number of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, sociolinguistics, education, history, political studies, communication and media studies. The recent evolution of information technologies (IT)

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10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015)

10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) August 31 – September 4, 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece – http://mklab.iti.gr/essir2015/ The 10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece between August 31 – September 4, 2015 hosted by the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory (MKLab) of the

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Lectures on Language Technology Uppsala, May 26, 2015

The computational linguistics group at Uppsala University is delighted to invite you to an afternoon of public lectures on language technology by leading experts in the field. The lectures will take place in Room 7-0043, English Park Campus, Uppsala University, on the 26th of May according to the schedule below. Attendance is free for anyone

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10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015), Thessaloniki, Greece

10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) August 31 – September 4, 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece – http://mklab.iti.gr/essir2015/ It is with great pleasure to announce that the 10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece between August 31 – September 4, 2015 hosted by the Multimedia Knowledge

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IBM Watson, AlchemyAPI, and a World of Cognitive Computing

AlchemyAPI sells text analysis and computer vision capabilities that can be integrated into application, services, and data systems via a SaaS API. But I don’t believe you’ll find the words “cognitive computing” on AlchemyAPI‘s Web site. So where’s the fit? What gap was IBM seeking to fill? For an IBM description of Watson cognitive computing,

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