Week 3

Lecture 3: Text Classification, 5 Sept.

Presentation

Recordings

• First hour: video | audio only
• Second hour: Recording did not work. We finished slide 40.

Mandatory reading

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed. (edition of 29. Aug. 2019!)

• Ch. 4,  "Naive Bayes Classification and Sentiment"
  • Except (for now) section 4.9 Statistical significance testing

NLTK Book

• Ch. 6 Learning to classify text:
  • Sec. 6.0
  • Sec 6.1 Supervised classification, subsec. 6.1.1 - 6.1.3
  • Sec 6.3 Validation

Lab-session 3, Tuesday 10 September at Fortress

Program