AU SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2016

AU SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2016TEXT MINING THE GREAT UNREAD: DATA-INTENSIVE METHODS AND DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ANALYSIS OF TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

AU SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2016

Books, documents, and newspapers have always been essential information resources in the humanities and social sciences. With the arrival of digital media the amount of texts available is increasing at an extremely high velocity. Classical methods for text analysis are defeated by the sheer volume leading to a massive amount of unread documents. To handle this ‘great unread’ we have to invent new computer-assisted ways of discovering meaningful patterns in texts. Such digital tools and data-intensive methods for handling big text-heavy data are currently transforming our research disci-plines as well as the society around us.

In Text Mining the Great Unread you will learn how to develop and apply tools and methods for mining high quality information in texts. This will enable you to answer text-related research questions from the humani-ties and social sciences in a highly innova-tive and efficient manner. You will learn how to access digital databases, analyze thou-sands of documents and communicate your results to academia and industry alike.

The aim of the course is to provide theo-retical, methodological and practical com-petences in text mining for humanities and social science students. The course will cover:

• How to delineate and evaluate research problems in terms of text mining solutions

• How to design and implement knowledge discovery pipelines

• How to communicate through presentation, visualization and reports

The core of the course is a series of hands-on workshops that cover concrete text-related problems and solutions. Workshops are supplemented by lectures and tutorials given by international researchers and industry experts. Participants will have the option of working with their own data sets and corpora. Importantly, participants are not expected to have prior experience with text mining (i.e., programming, statistics, or visualization). The only prerequisite is a positive interest in discovering new knowledge in texts.

TEXT MINING THE GREAT UNREAD DATA-INTENSIVE METHODS AND DIGITAL TOOLS FOR ANALY-SIS OF TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

AU SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2016

In 2015 more than 1600 Danish and international students decided to spend part of their summer taking specialized, intensive courses at AU Summer University. More than 60 nationalities were represented.

TEXT MINING THE GREAT UNREAD

Date: July 25 - August 5ECTS: 10Level: Bachelor and Master

TARGET GROUP

Students interested in methods for mining high quality information in texts.

AU Summer University welcomes Danish and international full time students, exchange students and free movers.

APPLICATIONThe online application system will open on December 1, 2015. The application deadline is March 15, 2016.

Please visit:au.dk/summeruniversity for more information on application procedures, housing, location and the social programme.

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO WELCOMING DANISH AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO AU SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2016.

AU SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2016

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