This workshop introduces the participants to a few of the most common and helpful tools for Natural Language Processing. Apart from the demos, each session is accompanied by exercises and practice on the texts that participants bring themselves.

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Programme overview

Day 1 (9:00–16:30, Couvreur Room, Agora Learning Centre)

• Named Entity Recognition
• Regular expressions
• Text alignment (demo)

Day 2 (09:00–16:30, Raadzaal, Institute of Philosophy)

• Linguistic annotation using language models
• Theoretical insights on NLP: how does all this work?

Day 3 (09:00–15:00, Couvreur Room, Agora Learning Centre)

• Relational databases
• INCEpTION annotation platform