Research Topics in Networks and Text Analysis

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Emnebeskrivelse

Mål og innhald

The course is concerned with the use of methods for working with text and network data in information science and media studies. Such methods are becoming increasingly important in the social sciences and in industry for the analysis of data from many different sources, including data from social and mainstream media. The course will establish a theoretical understanding of methods in network science and text analysis and work with programs that implement such methods. The course will cover language models, document clustering and comparison, supervised machine learning methods for the analysis of of documents, and network models for the analysis of the relationships between texts and users. The use of such methods as part of research strategies in information science and media studies will be emphasized and the course will provide theoretical and practical basis for working with methods for analyzing text and networks. 

Participants will become familiar with packages for the analysis of text and network data and gain practical experience by performing their own analysis of real-world data.

Læringsutbyte

A student who has completed the course should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge:

The candidate

  • knows various theoretical and practical issues in network theory and text analysis.
  • knows relevant research and trends in network science and text analysis, as well as new research problems.

Skills:

The candidate

  • can apply the automated techniques to analyze text and network data and to explain their choice of technologies to solve particular problems.

Studiepoeng, omfang

15

Studienivå (studiesyklus)

Master

Undervisningssemester

Autumn/irregular
Krav til forkunnskapar
Bachelor in Information Science, Media Studies, or equivalent.
Tilrådde forkunnskapar
Knowledge of basic statistical concepts.
Studiepoengsreduksjon
Ingen
Krav til studierett
Master in information science. The course is open to other master students and to international students with a solid background in information science under application.
Arbeids- og undervisningsformer
Lectures, work with subject assignment, presentations and discussions
Obligatorisk undervisningsaktivitet

There will be mandatory assignments which must be completed and approved. The approved mandatory assignments cannot be carried over to other semesters.

Mandatory participation: Attendance at 80 % of course sessions is mandatory.

Vurderingsformer

Oral individual exam (40%)

Group based semester project(s) (60%)

The exam assignment will be given in the language of instruction in the course.

The exam answer must be submitted in the same language as the exam assignment.

Karakterskala
The grading system has a descending scale from A to E for passes and F for fail.
Vurderingssemester

Assessment in teaching semester

Students with valid absence as defined in the UiB regulations § 5-5 can apply for an extended submission deadline to eksamen.infomedia@uib.no. The application must be submitted before the deadline for submission has expired.

Litteraturliste
The reading list will be ready before 1 July for the autumn semester and 1 Decemeber for the spring semester. 
Emneevaluering
Alle emne blir evaluert i tråd med UiBs kvalitetssystem for utdanning.
Programansvarleg
The Programme Committee is responsible for the content, structure and quality of the study programme and courses.
Emneansvarleg
Dag Elgesem
Administrativt ansvarleg
The Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences has the administrative responsibility for the course