https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/XB_0141Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course, students will be familiar with basic knowledge of some of the core aspects of Natural Language Processing, Linguistics and Text Mining: rule-based systems, machine learning, deep learning, text classification, sentiment extraction, entity recognition and topic modeling of texts. Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to implement NLP processing systems and modules and evaluate these. Making judgements: students will have a basic understanding of the ethical and societal implications of the developments in NLP. Communication skills: students will be able to write a scientific reports about a specific research question in a group of students. Learning skills: students will be trained in acquiring a set of complex NLP and text mining topics in a restricted period of time, come up with a research question and perform the necessary (empirical) research. Basic concepts from Linguistics and foundational concepts from Natural Language Processing. Skills to use, apply and critically assess text mining techniques. Adapt and build text mining techniques to specific target domains and applications.Basic concepts from Linguistics and foundational concepts from Natural Language Processing. Skills to use, apply and critically assess text mining techniques. Adapt and build text mining techniques to specific target domains and applications.Theoretical lectures and working group sessionsMultiple choice exam on theory 60% and the group project report 40%. Both the multiple choice exam and the group project are eligible for resit.Programming in Python, using Github