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NLP

Natural Language Processing, Part One: Introduction

Philip Burns This article begins a short four part mini-tour through the world of Natural Language ... look at how natural language processing enables extraction of structured data from unstructured text ... . This first article covers basic concepts.   What is a Natural Language? A natural language develops as ...
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Accessibility for Everyone

speaking. Computers, too, have improved accessibility with screen reading and alternative controls already ... steps including “tagging, adding headings, adding alternative text to pictures and graphs, and making ... . At Northwestern University, it is imperative that digital spaces are accessible to everyone. In 2017 ...
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Course Materials

Libraries provide access to electronic course reserves, alternative course packs, and when available, e-book ... If the text is not available as an e-book, a subject librarian can work with you to find alternative ... The shift to remote teaching highlights the importance of access to course materials and its ...
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NLP

Natural Language Processing, Part Two: Advanced Applications

2019 by  Philip Burns This is the second article of four about Natural Language Processing. The  first ... article  introduced basic concepts and fundamental methods. In the previous article in this series, we ... do once we add basic structure to a text using these methods? Keyword and named entity extraction  ...
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TEACHx conference

Northwestern to showcase learning apps at TEACHx conference

available online. The digital revolution has enabled scholars from across the globe to access rare texts and ... and teaching May 03, 2017 | By  Erin Karter TEACHx, a day to highlight technological innovations in ... uses Canvas. Nebula An alternative to the traditional discussion board, Nebula is the brainchild of ...
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Moving Islands, Expanding Worlds: A Symposium on Race and Indigeneity in the Pacific

11/28/2017 - 5:00pm
served. To read an article about this Fall 2017 course, Race and Indigeneity in the Pacific, taught by ... Hawai‘i for a week-long field study in September 2017. Join us for an amazing array of presentations on ... such topics as food sovereignty, Native women’s activism, alternatives to prisons, culturally relevant ...
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Student

Updates to the Quality Matters Higher Education Rubric

“The course provides alternative means of access to course materials in formats that meet the needs of ... reads, “The course provides accessible text and images in files, documents, LMS pages, and web pages to ... “determine the accessibility of all text and image content in the course,” and “review all multimedia content ...
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Researcher's Toolkit Series 2017: Patent Research with InnovationQ Plus

09/27/2017 - 12:00pm
trends and relationships, and access full-text IEEE content. This live demo is relevant to those ... Researcher's Toolkit Series 2017: Patent Research with InnovationQ Plus Northwestern ... semantically searches over 100 million full text global patents and critical non-patent literature. It can help ...
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PowerPoint

Why and When to Use PowerPoint in Online Courses

screen reader-friendly markup) is an appropriate and accessible way to convey large amounts of text or ... accessibility features built in, so not all uses of PowerPoint are bad. This guide will describe recommended ... underlying structure in the quickest and simplest way possible. This may mean using only structured text and ...
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Researcher's Toolkit Workshop: Introduction to Literary Analysis

03/05/2019 - 12:00pm
and newspaper articles. We’ll also look at locating digital copies of literary texts you might want to ... Researcher's Toolkit Workshop: Introduction to Literary Analysis Text analysis is fundamental ... determining text topics, and mapping locations can now be performed speedily using freely available software ...
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Segal Seminar Series: Merrie Morris, University of Washington

11/27/2018 - 4:00pm
lack any alternative text descriptions that can be read aloud by screen reader software, and many ... images that do contain alt text have captions that are of poor quality; many popular emerging formats ... image-description techniques, and present example hybrid intelligence systems for making digital imagery accessible ...
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Learning from Digital Water Cooler Conversations

Screen-Shot-2017-05-09-at-10.58.27-AM-29qdgdh.png   IS THERE EVIDENCE OF LEARNING? Informal-Learning-Analysis-13zp4pt.jpg ... informal learning spaces – parts of the system to which all community members have free and open access ... Evidence-of-learning-25ouckb.png Full Article: Scott, K.S., Sorokti, K. H., & Merrell, J. D. (2016) Learning “beyond the ...
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SONIA LIVINGSTONE (LSE), "Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age"

05/22/2017 - 4:00pm
DIGITAL AGE" Date: Monday, May 22, 2017 Time: 4-6.30pm Place: Frances Searle Building, Room 3-417 ... Google Maps Illinois US Monday, 22 May 2017- 4:00pm to 6:30pm Source Link:  ... many articles, Livingstone researches the opportunities and risks for children and young people ...
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Technology Tools

Teaching  to learn more about accessible documents; text equivalents for audio, video, and images; holding ... that enable two-way communications between instructor and students including text, video, audio, and ... necessary to begin teaching remotely in Canvas. Review the  Accessibility Recommendations for Remote ...
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Faculty Workshop - Assessment: Grading with Intent -- Designing Effective Assessments to Improve Student Learning

04/14/2017 - 3:30pm
•          Effectively use alternative forms of student assessment •          Use formative assessment to ... wheelchair accessible. If you need wheelchair access please let us know and we will do our best to find an ... accessible location. Get Started Learning Communities Across Campus 627 Dartmouth Place Searle Center for ...
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Northwestern Digital Learning Podcast Series

traditional pedagogy and the student experience.  Each article that accompanies an episode includes a complete text ... transcription. Click on the purple link below to read the article or the SoundCloud player next to it to hear the ...
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Northwestern

Natural Language Processing, Part Three: At Northwestern

Posted April 26, 2019 by  Philip Burns This is the third article of four about Natural Language Processing. The ... first article introduced basic concepts and fundamental methods. The second article discussed advanced ... database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features ...
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Michel David-Well Scholarship Campus Deadline!!!

11/13/2017 - 12:00am
a monetary value of $80,000 and covers the cost of tuition and living expenses during a two-year master’s ... multiculturalism, tolerance and high achievement. Get Started Funding Opportunities Monday, 13 November 2017 ...
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Recording and Streaming Departmental Events

10/22/2021 - 4:00pm
and microphone technology recently added to campus spaces and how to access it * how to use Zoom with ... resident USB microphones and cameras, or how to connect alternative cameras and microphones ... 22 October 2021- 4:00pm to 5:00pm Source Link:  https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/581167 ...
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TriQuarterly Archive Available Online

was an intensely active and fascinating world,” he said, referring to the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. “Then ... journal as well as even greater access to its content for readers around the world. An Online Archive Ever ... converts printed text into machine-readable text. OCR will occasionally misread a letter or word, and ...
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Churchill Scholarship Information Session

09/22/2017 - 4:00pm
Evanston, IL United States See map: Google Maps Illinois US Friday, 22 September 2017- 4:00pm to 5:00pm ... University of Cambridge based at Churchill College. Science- Math- Engineering Date:   Friday, September 22 ... , 2017 Time:   4-5pm Location:   Conference Room, Office of Fellowships, 1940 Sheridan Rd. NU Internal ...
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Where To Start?: A Beginner’s Guide to Alternative Assessment & Ungrading

05/09/2022 - 11:00am
Where To Start?: A Beginner’s Guide to Alternative Assessment & Ungrading About this ... introduce a spectrum of alternative modes of assessment, ranging from simple practices—e.g., changing the ... experiences implementing alternative assessment strategies before inviting conversation and exploration around ...
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Dr. Rebecca Zorach

Spotlight: Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop Projects

Spotlight: Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop Projects Visit Chicago Mural Movement ... exhibition at Block April 21- June 18 This article is the third in a series to highlight the five 2016 ... and running through June 18, 2017, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern will be ...
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Researcher's Toolkit Series 2017: Introduction to LaTeX

11/08/2017 - 3:00pm
Researcher's Toolkit Series 2017: Introduction to LaTeX Alper Kinaci, Senior Computational ... program where you write in a plain text environment. It includes features to create production/publication ... quality technical and scientific documents from the plain text content. The LaTeX interpreter formats the ...
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Braille keyboard

Small Changes That Make a Big Difference to All Learners

Small Changes That Make a Big Difference to All Learners Accessibility 101 Key Concepts:  ... Accessible course design benefits everyone Enroll in Accessibility 101 About 11-15% of the population ... ensure Northwestern is providing an accessible learning environment to all our students. Wondering where ...
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(Virtual) Founder Talk: Phyllis Lockett, CEO, LEAP Innovations Kellogg ’93

04/07/2020 - 6:00pm
(Virtual) Founder Talk: Phyllis Lockett, CEO, LEAP Innovations Kellogg ’93 This event is open to ...
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FSM Lecture

Student Insight Enabled by New Presentation Tool

impossible for students watching after the fact to know where to look. spotlight-assets.png The Media and ... Integrate Logitech Spotlight Remote, into the classroom design. Now, instructors are free to move around the ... to that of being physically in the room as the lecture is delivered: Picture1.jpg The Spotlight ...
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Canvas Streaming: Clip Making Training

09/14/2017 - 3:00pm
clips and make them accessible for secure Course Reserves use in your Canvas modules. In this workshop ... you will learn how to: request access to the Library’s audio and video assets via the Course Reserves ... points of longer audio/video assets and put them together as playlists embed playlists in Canvas text ...
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Canvas Streaming: Clip Making Training

09/18/2017 - 2:00pm
clips and make them accessible for secure Course Reserves use in your Canvas modules. In this workshop ... you will learn how to: request access to the Library’s audio and video assets via the Course Reserves ... points of longer audio/video assets and put them together as playlists embed playlists in Canvas text ...
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Canvas Streaming: Clip Making Training

10/10/2017 - 3:00pm
clips and make them accessible for secure Course Reserves use in your Canvas modules. In this workshop ... you will learn how to: request access to the Library’s audio and video assets via the Course Reserves ... points of longer audio/video assets and put them together as playlists embed playlists in Canvas text ...
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