Tutorials

Text Mining / NLP Basics

• Understanding Nouns in WordNet
• What are N-grams
• What is Text Similarity
• All about stop words
• Constructing domain specific stop words
• Giving an IDF effect to probability of word counts
• What is ROUGE and how it can help with evaluation of summaries

Text Summarization

• What is ROUGE and how it can help with evaluation of summaries
• Evaluating textual summaries
• Using ROUGE 2.0 Java Package for Evaluation of Summarization Tasks

Machine Learning

• Computing precision and recall for a multi-class classification problem

Sentiment Analysis

• Interesting tasks within Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• Opinion Mining Tutorial
• User Review Dataset
• What is an Opinion-Driven Decision Support System?
• What is the difference between Micropinions and Micro-Reviews?

Clinical Text Mining

• Understanding UMLS Metathesaurus
• How to get access to UMLS Metathesaurus

Crowd Sourcing & Misc

• CrowdFlower vs. Amazon Mehanical Turk
• How to install MySQL on an Amazon EC2 Server Instance

Useful Scripts

• Shell script for generating term frequencies in descending order
• Simple shell command to get word count in files

Reading List

• Useful reading materials in opinion mining, information retrieval and NLP

Dataset

• User Review Data Set for Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Summarization

Programming

• Getting started with Spark on Windows