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The world is full of text: webpages, emails, newspaper articles, tweets, medical records, and so on. The purpose of text is for people to convey knowledge to other people. This course focuses on how computers analyze large, potentially streaming, text collections to automatically discover knowledge on their own (and to help people better find it themselves). Lectures and assignments will cover relevant topics in automatic classification (applied machine learning), linguistics, high-performance computing, and systems engineering, working with software systems for automatic question answering, populating knowledge bases, and aggregate analysis of social media such as Twitter. [Applications]