Hesburgh Libraries

Preparing Files for Text and Data Mining

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

9:30 am – 10:20 am

247 Hesburgh Library, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship

Workshop Overview

Text mining, a process for extracting information from unstructured text, requires everyday files (PDF, Word, HTML, etc.) to be transformed into plain text files. Once your files are in a plain text format (no bold, italics, underlining, etc.) they are ready for automated processing and computer analysis.

This hands-on workshop will demonstrate and facilitate the use of a free Java-based program called Tika that can do this work. More specifically, this workshop will help attendees install Tika and teach them how to convert just about any file into plain text, with hopes that they will leave with the knowledge and confidence to use a myriad of text mining services available on the internet.

Open to all graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff.

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