Introduction to programming and natural language processing (NLP) for the Humanities
Wed, Jun 24
|ETH Zürich Hauptgebäude
ETH offer a hands-on six-day course at ETH Zürich that bridges programming, text analysis, and the digital humanities. Learn how programming and natural language processing can open new doors for research in the humanities!
Time & Location
Jun 24, 2026, 9:00 AM GMT+2 – Jul 11, 2026, 5:00 PM GMT+2
ETH Zürich Hauptgebäude, ETH Zürich Hauptgebäude, Zürich, Switzerland
About the event
ETH is pleased to announce a six-day course providing a hands-on introduction to Python programming and textual data analysis. We will hold this course on-site at ETH Zürich (the HG in Zentrum):
Part 1: Introduction to programming in Python Monday, 01 June and Wednesday, 03 June 2026
Part 2: Working with text data Monday, 15 June and Wednesday, 17 June 2026
Part 3: Machine learning for text data Tuesday, 23 June and Wednesday, 24 June 2026
The registration fee is CHF 600 for the whole course (six days, food and drinks during the breaks are not included).
The course is aimed at people who do not have prior programming knowledge and plan to process and analyse digitised textual data.