Admission requirements
None. Basic knowledge of statistics (mean, standard deviation, distributions, confidence interval) is assumed.
Students not enrolled in the BA Linguistics need to contact the Coordinator of studies for permission to register.
Description
The course covers basis programming in Python for text analysis for BA students linguistics.
Course objectives
To know variables, lists, loops, regular expressions, functions, input/output , data formats and data visualisation in Python for text analysis
Being able to apply the knowledge obtained in writing short programmes in Python for text analysis
Timetable
Mode of instruction
- Lectures and practicals
Attendance of lectures/practicals is obligatory, unless the student contacts the lecturer before the start of the course and can provide convincing arguments to be absent. All other students will be removed from the course if one is absent more than 2 sessions. Non-attedance results in losing the right to ask questions about that topic.
Timely handing in weekly assignments is obligatory. If more than 1 assignment is handed in too late, the students loses the right to take part in the examination (final assignment + final exam). Handing in a weekly assignment too late, results in losing the right to receive feedback on that assignment.
Course Load
Lectures: 10 hours
Practical work: 10 hours
Preparation tutorials: 10 hours
Study of compulsory literature: 30 hours
Assignment(s): 50 hours
Preparation exam: 28 hours
Exam(s): 2 hours
Assessment method
Assessment
Assignment
Final test
Weighing
Assignment: 33%
Final test: 67%
Resit
Assignment: no
Final test: yes
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used to:
Make the study materials available
Give an overview of he course
Communicate about the course
Reading list
Think Python: how to Think Like a Computer Scientist. Alan B. Downey (2012). O’Reilly
Natural Language Processing with Python..Steven Bird, Ewan Klein & Edward Loper (2009) O’Reilly
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on this website
Students not enrolled in the BA Linguistics need to contact the Coordinator of studies for permission to register.
Contact
For questions about the content of the course, please contact the teacher: Dr. J. Witteman
Education Administration Office van Wijkplaats
E-mailaddress Education Administration Office van Wijkplaats: osz-oa-wijkplaats@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Coordinator of Studies: Else van Dijk