Natural Language Processing Methods

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary field whose goal is to create machines that understand natural languages. 

The lesson features: (i) an introduction to the key concepts and techniques of NLP; (ii) hands-on activities on some NLP tasks, such as lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition using CLARIN-ERIC tools. The use case covered by the hands-on activities is particularly suited for trainees in the field of Digital Humanities given that the text is taken from a corpus of historical travel writings.