Thursday, February 7, 2013

Taming Text: How to Find, Organize and Manipulate It


Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It PDF Download Ebook. Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton and Andrew L. Farris introduce the useful techniques like full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. You'll explore real use cases as you systematically absorb the foundations upon which they are built.

Written in a clear and concise style, this book avoids jargon, explaining the subject in terms you can understand without a background in statistics or natural language processing. Examples are in Java, but the concepts can be applied in any language. There is so much text in our lives, we are practically drowning in it.

Fortunately, there are innovative tools and techniques for managing unstructured information that can throw the smart developer a much-needed lifeline. You'll find them in this book. It is a practical, example-driven guide to working with text in real applications. You will learn when to use text-taming techniques, important open-source libraries like Solr and Mahout to build text-processing applications.

Grant Ingersoll is a founder of Lucid Imagination, developing search and natural language processing tools. Prior to Lucid Imagination, he was a Senior Software Engineer at the Center for Natural Language Processing at Syracuse University. At the Center and, previously, at MNIS-TextWise, Grant worked on a number of text processing applications involving information retrieval, question answering, clustering, summarization, and categorization.

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