851-0739-02L Sequencing Legal DNA: NLP for Law and Political Economy (Course Project)
| Semester | Spring Semester 2021 |
| Lecturers | E. Ash |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Comment | This is the optional course project for "Building a Robot Judge: Data Science for the Law." Please register only if attending the lecture course or with consent of the instructor. Some programming experience in Python is required, and some experience with text mining is highly recommended. |
| Abstract | This is the companion course for extra credit for a course project, for the course "Sequencing Legal DNA: NLP for Law and Political Economy". |
| Learning objective | Students will be introduced to a broad array of tools in natural language processing (NLP). They will learn to evaluate and apply NLP tools to a variety of problems. The applications will focus on social-science contexts, including law, politics, and the news media. Topics include text classification, topic modeling, transformers, model explanation, and bias in language. |