This is a lesson on part-of-speech tagging using the collection A Medical History of British India provided by the National Library of Scotland's Data Foundry as an example.
This lesson was created by Beatrice Alex using materials from the Library Carpentries lesson on Text and Data Mining [1] and the EFI Text and Data Mining course [2,3]. Anouk Lang also provided valuable feedback and input to the lesson.
The notebook provided as part of this lesson is designed with use in Edinburgh Noteable.
[1] Alex, B. and Llewellyn, C.. (2020) Library Carpentry: Text & Data Mining. Centre for Data, Culture & Society, University of Edinburgh. http://librarycarpentry.org/lc-tdm/.
[2] Llewellyn, C., Orzechowski, P. & Alex, B. (2020) Teaching a Text Mining Bootcamp in Lockdown, Jun 2020, Edinburgh, pp. 1-7.
[3] Alex, B., Llewellyn, C., Orzechowski, P. M., & Boutchkova, M. (2021). The Online Pivot: Lessons Learned from Teaching a Text and Data Mining Course in Lockdown, Enhancing online Teaching with Pair Programming and Digital Badges. In: Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP, NAACL 2021, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 138–148.