MSCI 641Text Analytics
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Subject
- Management Sciences
Not in the current Graduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in Spring 2024.
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
With the rapid growth of unstructured natural language data, such as web pages, blogs, product reviews, news articles and enterprise data, there is an increasing need for systems that would retrieve relevant documents, extract specific information from them, mine opinions, summarize and categorize texts. This course provides students with an understanding of the major methods for retrieving, mining and analyzing textual data, with the emphasis on algorithms, techniques and their evaluation.
Prerequisites
None listed.
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
3 posts and comments in 3 threads mention MSCI 641, November 2020 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Spring 2024
Seeking Advice on Submitting MSCI641 Text Analytics Assignment on Linux Server 3 points, 1 comment
u/Mysterious-Photo-156: “I'm currently working on my MSCI641 Text Analytics assignment and could use some guidance on submitting it to a Linux server. …”
Winter 2024
Interesting ML course from Engineering Department from Math Student 7 points, 8 comments
u/Novel_Brain9700: “… MSCI 641: Text Analytics 5. ECE 417: Image Processing or SYDE 575: Image Processing 6. ECE 457B: Fundamentals of Computational Intelligence (Winter) 7. ECE 457C: Reinforcement Learning (Spring) 8. ECE 495: Autonomous Vehicle (Winter) 9. …”
Fall 2020
20$ Amazon gift card for virtual office hour access link for any of Stat441,MTE 203,ME 780, MSCI 641,SYDE 572 ( 1 gift card per course) 0 points, 6 comments
u/Comfortable_Map_9957: “I am not in any of those courses. I would like to offer 20$ gift card bounty for each virtual office hour access link ( prof office hour. Not TA office hour). \ Why am I doing this: I am looking for AI/ML related URA position next term. …”
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