Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining

• Main Authors: Weiss, Sholom M. (Author), Indurkhya, Nitin. (Author), Zhang, Tong. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2010.
• Series: Texts in Computer Science, 41
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Text processing (Computer science.; Information systems.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Document Preparation and Text Processing.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Database Management.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-226-1

One consequence of the pervasive use of computers is that most documents originate in digital form. Widespread use of the Internet makes them readily available. Text mining - the process of analyzing unstructured natural-language text  is concerned with how to extract information from these documen...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of Text Mining
• From Textual Information to Numerical Vectors
• Using Text for Prediction
• Information Retrieval and Text Mining
• Finding Structure in a Document Collection
• Looking for Information in Documents
• Data Sources for Prediction: Databases, Hybrid Data and the Web
• Case Studies
• Emerging Directions.