The course implies a high degree of motivation and independence. The seminar covers a broad range of topics.

This is the moodle course for the seminar: Natural Language Processing Strategies for Real-World Challenges

Link to course site: https://www.lswi.de/lehre-lswi/duplikat-von-digitale-plattformen-und-plattformbasierte-geschaeftsmodelle

Contents
The seminar offers an overview of the methods of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and their application to real challenges in business and society. The combination of knowledge transfer and practical application, with a focus on modern NLP methods, enables participants to solve given problems independently.

As part of the seminar, participants will learn about the following approaches, among others: Information Extraction (Retrieval and Extraction), Topic Modeling, Sentiment Analysis, Named Entity Recognition as well as rule-based and machine learning approaches.

As part of the seminar, participants create their own project work, which represents a holistic NLP application.

Learning objectives
⁃ Knowledge of current methods of natural language processing
⁃ Are able to select suitable solution approaches for given problems
⁃ Are able to combine state-of-the-art technologies to solve real-world problems and implement them prototypically

Rechtliche Vorkenntnisse sind für diesen Kurs nicht erforderlich. Der Kurs richtet sich explizit an juristische Laien und soll einen praxisnahen Einblick in typische Themenbereiche des IT Rechts geben. Empfehlung: Ab dem 4. Semester.

Prüfungsleistung: Präsentation Seminarthemen inkl. Management Summary und Online Phasen mit Aufgabenlösungen.