Language Analytics

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This class will focus on using natural language processing methods to gather insights from student language. Forms of language will include student writing, dialogues, monologues, teacher interactions, and interactions with intelligent agents. The class will introduce text analytics approaches that include lexical extraction, syntactic parsing, text cohesion, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and semantic embeddings. Student will learn to analyze large corpora of language samples to derive knowledge of students, develop interventions, provide feedback, and monitor engagement and motivation. Serves as repeat credit for SPED 7720 and EDUC 7720. [3]