A new R package called crfsuite supported by BNOSAC landed safely on CRAN last week. The crfsuite package (https://github.com/bnosac/crfsuite) is an R package specific to Natural Language Processing and allows you to easily build and apply models for named entity recognition text chunking part of speech ... [Read more...]

Last call for the 2-day course on Text Mining with R, held next week (08-09 October 2018) in Brussels, Belgium. Subscribe at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsb2018-text-mining-with-r-jan-wijffels-bnosac-session-03-04-tickets-50586501588 You'll learn during that course the following: Cleaning of text data, regular expressions String distances Graphical displays of text ... [Read more...]

This blogpost announces the release of the udpipe R package version 0.7 on CRAN. udpipe is an R package which does tokenization, parts of speech tagging, lemmatization, morphological feature tagging and dependency parsing. It's main feature is that it is a lightweight R package which works on more than 50 languages and ... [Read more...]

Yesterday there was a pretty controversial Pano TV documentary called 'Wie is Schild & Vrienden echt' at the national television channel 'één' (https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/pano/2018/pano-s2018a10). The documentary revealed the internal communication of a right-wing group from Belgium, called #schildnvrienden. After that, there was a ... [Read more...]

I'm happy to announce that the following list of courses for R users is ready to be booked. All courses are face-to-face courses held in Belgium. 08-09/10/2018: Text mining with R. Brussels (Belgium). http://di-academy.com/bootcamp + send mail to [email protected] 15-16/10/2018: Statistical machine learning with R. Leuven (... [Read more...]

Last Wednesday, a small presentation was given at the RBelgium meetup in Brussels on Basic R Automation. For those of you who could not attend, here are the slides of that presentation which showed the use of the cronR and taskscheduleR R packages for ... [Read more...]

In this blogpost, we will show 6 keyword extraction techniques which allow to find keywords in plain text. Keywords are frequently occuring words which occur somehow together in plain text. Common examples are New York, Monte Carlo, Mixed Models, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Public Transport, Central Station, p-values, ... If you master these ... [Read more...]

Last week we updated the cronR R package and released it to CRAN allowing you to schedule any R code on whichever timepoint you like. The package was updated in order to comply to more stricter CRAN policies regarding writing to folders. Along the lines, the RStudio add-in of the ... [Read more...]

In the last few years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become more and more an open multi-lingual task instead of being held back by language, country and legal boundaries. With the advent of commonly used open data regarding natural language processing tasks as available at http://universaldependencies.org one can ... [Read more...]

Last call for the course on Advanced R programming scheduled in Leuven, Belgium on Febuary 20-21 2018. Register at: https://lstat.kuleuven.be/training/coursedescriptions/AdvancedprogramminginR.html You'll learn during that course: The apply family of functions, basic parallel programming for these functions and commonly needed data manipulation skills Making a ... [Read more...]

If you work on applications for clients or have open sourced some shiny apps, a question that arises is how is your application being used. What you can do in order to find out how your hard work is being consumed is putting your code in logs and then ... [Read more...]

BNOSAC is happy to announce the release of the udpipe R package (https://bnosac.github.io/udpipe/en) which is a Natural Language Processing toolkit that provides language-agnostic 'tokenization', 'parts of speech tagging', 'lemmatization', 'morphological feature tagging' and 'dependency parsing' of raw text. Next to text parsing, the package also ... [Read more...]

BNOSAC is working on building an application on top of open data from questions and answers given at the parliament in Belgium. It will basically show what our civil servants in parliament are busy with. If you are interested in co-developing, feel fre... [Read more...]

CRAN contains up to date (October 2017) more than 11500 R packages. If you want to scroll through all of these, you probably need to spend a few days, assuming you need 5 seconds per package and there are 8 hours in a day. Since R version 3.4, we can also get a dataset will ... [Read more...]

We use text mining a lot in day-to-day data mining operations. In order to share our knowledge on this, to show that R is an extremely mature platform to do business-oriented text analytics and to give you practical experience with text mining, our course on Text Mining with R is ... [Read more...]

If you work on natural language processing in a day-to-day setting which involves statistical engineering, at a certain timepoint you need to process your text with a number of text mining procedures of which the following ones are steps you must do before you can get usefull information about your ... [Read more...]

For R users interested in Machine Learning, you can attend our upcoming course on Machine Learning with R which is scheduled on 16-17 October 2017 in Leuven, Belgium. This is now the 4th year this course is given at the university of Leuven so we made quite some updates since the ... [Read more...]

Just before the summer holidays, BNOSAC presented a talk called Computer Vision and Image Recognition algorithms for R users at the UseR conference. In the talk 6 packages on Computer Vision with R were introduced in front of an audience of about 250 p... [Read more...]

Parts of Speech (POS) tagging is a crucial part in natural language processing. It consists of labelling each word in a text document with a certain category like noun, verb, adverb, pronoun, ... . At BNOSAC, we use it on a dayly basis in order to select only nouns before we do ... [Read more...]

2 new R packages were put on CRAN last week by BNOSAC (www.bnosac.be). One package for scheduling R scripts and processes on Windows (taskscheduleR) and Another package for scheduling R scripts and processes on Unix / Linux (cronR) These 2 packages allow you to schedule R processes from R directly. This ... [Read more...]