Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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TOURISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE / TT508 - TOURISM TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION (MASTER'S WITH THESIS)

Code: TT508 Course Title: TEXT MINING Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department TOURISM TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION (MASTER'S WITH THESIS)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer İBRAHİM AKIN ÖZEN (akin@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
It is aimed to analyze the textual comments created by tourists in online environments using text mining methods and to evaluate the results.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 To gain the ability to find and extract useful information from the text stack. PO-2 It can use innovative research methods to collect big data, evaluate it and use it in decision processes.
PO-10 Knows how to apply different management tools in tourism business with special emphasis on information and communication technologies and indicative measurements.
PO-12 It can search and organize information from different sources and interpret the results to create detailed reports.
PO-15 Gain problem solving skills by using research methods used in different disciplines.
Performance Project
LO-2 To gain the ability to analyze, clean and combine the text stack. PO-2 It can use innovative research methods to collect big data, evaluate it and use it in decision processes.
PO-12 It can search and organize information from different sources and interpret the results to create detailed reports.
PO-15 Gain problem solving skills by using research methods used in different disciplines.
Performance Project
Practice Exam
LO-3 Can apply text mining methods. PO-2 It can use innovative research methods to collect big data, evaluate it and use it in decision processes.
PO-5 Can apply artificial intelligence approaches to tourism problems.
PO-10 Knows how to apply different management tools in tourism business with special emphasis on information and communication technologies and indicative measurements.
Performance Project
Practice Exam
LO-4 Gain classification and clustering knowledge and skills with machine learning methods PO-5 Can apply artificial intelligence approaches to tourism problems.
PO-12 It can search and organize information from different sources and interpret the results to create detailed reports.
PO-15 Gain problem solving skills by using research methods used in different disciplines.
Performance Project
Practice Exam
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Within the scope of this course, theoretical methods and applications for the analysis and visualization of textual data concerning the tourism sector will be discussed.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Online Data Sources in the Tourism Industry Lecture, Q&A
2 Online Data collection methods Lecture, Q&A
3 Introduction to Text Mining - Text mining software Lecture, Q&A
4 Data Processing Stages in Text Mining (text preprocessing, text filtering, data transformation) Lecture, Q&A
5 Text mining method Lecture, Q&A
6 Vector Space Model – Word Vector Lecture, Q&A
7 Term Frequency-Term Frequency- Inverse Document Frequency Lecture, Q&A
8 mid-term exam
9 text classfication, text clustering Lecture, Q&A
10 topic extraction Lecture, Q&A
11 Seniment Analysis, Aspect-Based sentiment analysis Lecture, Q&A
12 Text mining applications for Tourism Businesses Lecture, Q&A
13 Text mining applications for Destination Management Lecture, Q&A
14 text mining applications Lecture, Q&A
15 text mining applications Lecture, Q&A
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=m3publishing
2 Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Information Technology, Bölüm adı:(Tourism Products and Sentiment Analysis) (2021)., ÖZEN İBRAHİM AKIN, University of South Florida M3 Publishing 2021, Sarasota, FL 34243 USA,
3 Opinion Mining in Tourism: A Study on ”Cappadocia Home Cooking” Restaurant) (2020)., ÖZEN İBRAHİM AKIN,İLHAN İBRAHİM, IGI Global, Editör:Evrim Çeltek, Basım sayısı:1, Sayfa Sayısı 430, ISBN:9781799819899
4 Turizm Sektöründe Metin Madenciliği) (2021)., ÖZEN İBRAHİM AKIN, Detay Yayıncılık
Required Course instruments and materials
Text mining software

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 2

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 12 24
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 12 24
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 4 14 56
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 3 5 15
mid-term exam 1 2 2
Own study for final exam 3 5 15
final exam 1 2 2
0
0
Total work load; 180