DIGI405-24X4 (O) Special non-calendar-based Four 2024 (UC Online)

Texts, Discourses and Data: the Humanities and Data Science

This occurrence is not offered in 2024

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 7 October 2024
End Date: Sunday, 8 December 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 20 October 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 17 November 2024

Description

This course examines computer-aided methods used in digital humanities and the social sciences for analysing discourses, an object of study that draws together multiple ways that language reflects and shapes social meanings. Within this context, it introduces concepts and methods for analysing natural language data and applies these through a series of practical lab classes. The first part of the course focuses on classic discourse analysis methods drawn from corpus linguistics, as well as the essential preprocessing steps used to prepare texts for a range of analytical purposes. In the second part of the course we study topic modeling, a technique for unsupervised, exploratory data analysis that has been widely used in digital humanities, and, finally, consider supervised text classification methods to identify discursive attributes such as sentiment, genre, or style.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,023.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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