AI Workshop by Dr. Lee Chu Keong
From Text Files to ChatBots:
A Journey Through Natural Language Processing
In the near future, many libraries are expected to implement some form of chatbot to enhance user experience and improve information retrieval. Natural Language Processing (NLP) provides the foundation for these intelligent systems. This half day workshop aims to demystify the technology behind chatbots and equip participants with a fundamental understanding of how they work.
This workshop will take participants on a journey from handling text files using basic Python string methods to using specialized NLP modules for text pre-processing, and finally, to implementing unsupervised machine learning techniques on text data. The workshop will be structured in a demo-driven approach, ensuring that theoretical explanations are immediately reinforced through practical demonstrations.
Workshop Details:
Exploring NLP: From Text Files to Intelligent ChatBots
Program
- Date: 19th June 2025 (Thursday)
- Time: 12.00pm – 1.30pm : Lunch & Registration , 2.00pm – 4.30pm : Workshop Session
- Venue: Za’ba Memorial Library, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur
- Registration Fee: RM 100.00 (includes lunch and tea break)
*Audience: Limited to 30 participants only*
(Bring your own laptop)
Payment Steps:
- Step 1: Register at QR code
- Step 2: Make Payment with this URL:
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- Step 3: Email payment receipt to [email protected]
Workshop Objectives
- Provide an Introduction to NLP and its relevance to libraries
- Overview of NLP concepts and its importance.
- Demonstrate how text data is processed using Python
- Basic string handling and pre-processing techniques.
- Introduce NLP techniques such as tokenization, stemming, and sentiment analysis
- Introduction to libraries like NLTK and spaCy.
- Explore unsupervised machine learning techniques for text clustering and classification
- Techniques such as clustering and topic modeling.
- Offer insights into chatbot development and its practical applications in library services
- Understanding chatbot logic and practical demonstrations.
Meet Our Instructor
Dr. Lee Chu Keong
Assistant Chair, Lifelong Education and International Relations Nanyang Technological University
Dr Lee is currently the Assistant Chair (Lifelong Learning and International Relations) and programme director of the MSc (Knowledge Management) programme at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is a chemical engineer by training, but furthered his studies in the areas of information science and knowledge management. In addition to NTU, he has also held teaching positions at the Singapore and Temasek Polytechnics.
His current teaching assignments include graduate courses in the areas of data science, artificial intelligence, and knowledge management. He strongly believes that everyone should be able to think computationally.
