Undergraduate Course: Text Technologies for Data Science (INFR11145)
Course Outline
| School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course teaches the basic technologies required for text processing, focussing mainly on information retrieval and text classification. It gives a detailed overview of information retrieval and describes how search engines work. It also covers basic knowledge of the main steps for text classification.
This course is a highly practical course, where at least 50% of what is taught in the course will be implemented from scratch in course works and labs, and students are required to complete a final project in small groups. All lectures, labs, and two course works will take place in Semester 1. The final group project will be due early Semester 2 by week 3 or 4. |
| Course description |
Syllabus:
* Introduction to IR and text processing, system components
* Zipf, Heaps, and other text laws
* Pre-processing: tokenization, normalisation, stemming, stopping.
* Indexing: inverted index, boolean and proximity search
* Evaluation methods and measures (e.g., precision, recall, MAP, significance testing).
* Query expansion
* IR toolkits and applications
* Ranked retrieval and learning to rank
* Text classification: feature extraction, baselines, evaluation
* Web search
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Maths requirements:
1. Linear algebra: Strong knowledge of vectors and matrices with all related mathematical operations (addition, multiplication, inverse, projections ... etc).
2. Probability theory: Discrete and continuous univariate random variables. Bayes rule. Expectation, variance. Univariate Gaussian distribution.
3. Calculus: Functions of several variables. Partial differentiation. Multivariate maxima and minima.
4. Special functions: Log, Exp, Ln.
Programming requirements:
1. Pyhton and/or Perl, and good knowledge in regular expressions
2. Shell commands (cat, sort, grep, sed, ...)
3. Additional programming language could be useful for course project.
Team-work requirement:
Final course project would be in groups of 4-6 students. Working in a team for the project is a requirement.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Maths requirements:
1. Linear algebra: Strong knowledge of vectors and matrices with all related mathematical operations (addition, multiplication, inverse, projections ... etc).
2. Probability theory: Discrete and continuous univariate random variables. Bayes rule. Expectation, variance. Univariate Gaussian distribution.
3. Calculus: Functions of several variables. Partial differentiation. Multivariate maxima and minima.
4. Special functions: Log, Exp, Ln.
Programming requirements:
1. Pyhton and/or Perl, and good knowledge in regular expressions
2. Shell commands (cat, sort, grep, sed, ...)
3. Additional programming language could be useful for course project.
Team-work requirement:
Final course project would be in groups of 4-6 students. Working in a team for the project is a requirement.
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 18,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 12,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
164 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written examination will evaluate students' understanding of the fundamentals of text technologies and IR.
Coursework will include two practical assignments to show the depth of understanding of the basics of IR and text classification; and a group project that would require applying some of the knowledge gained during course to implement a running application by a team of students.
Coursework will be designed as follows:
1) Two assignments for student to work individually (worth 20% in total).
2) One course final project assignment, to be completed in small groups (worth 30%). This project is required to be submitted near the beginning of the second semester. |
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Text Technologies for Data Science | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Build basic search engines from scratch, and use IR tools for searching massive collections of text documents
- Build feature extraction modules for text classification
- Implement evaluation scripts for IR and text classification
- Understand how web search engines (such as Google) work
- Work effectively in a team to produce working systems
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Reading List
"Introduction to Information Retrieval", C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan and H. Schutze
"Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice", W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman
"Machine Learning in Automated Text Categorization". F Sebastiani "The Zipf Mystery"
Additional research papers and videos to be recommended during lectures
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Walid Magdy
Tel: (0131 6)51 5612
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Clara Fraser
Tel: (0131 6)51 4164
Email: |
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