Parallelizing Text Processing

The goal of this work is to parallelize important text processing tasks such as Text Preprocessing and Co-occurrence analysis using the hadoop Map-/Reduce Framework.

Tasks

• familiarize yourself with the hadoop map-/reduce framework
• create a hadoop hello-world application
• transfer the text cleanup & pre-processing components to map-/redcue
• transfer the co-occurrence components to map-/reduce

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Theoretical Background
  • Map-/Reduce
  • Natural Language Detection
    • Text Preprocessing
    • Co-occurrence analysis
• Method
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• Outlook and Conclusions