{"product_id":"9781118210505","title":"Practical Text Mining with Perl","description":"\u003cb\u003eProvides readers with the methods, algorithms, and means to perform text mining tasks\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis book is devoted to the fundamentals of text mining using Perl, an open-source programming tool that is freely available via the Internet (www.perl.org). It covers mining ideas from several perspectives--statistics, data mining, linguistics, and information retrieval--and provides readers with the means to successfully complete text mining tasks on their own.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book begins with an introduction to regular expressions, a text pattern methodology, and quantitative text summaries, all of which are fundamental tools of analyzing text. Then, it builds upon this foundation to explore:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProbability and texts, including the bag-of-words model\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInformation retrieval techniques such as the TF-IDF similarity measure\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConcordance lines and corpus linguistics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMultivariate techniques such as correlation, principal components analysis, and clustering\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePerl modules, German, and permutation tests\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach chapter is devoted to a single key topic, and the author carefully and thoughtfully introduces mathematical concepts as they arise, allowing readers to learn as they go without having to refer to additional books. The inclusion of numerous exercises and worked-out examples further complements the book's student-friendly format.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePractical Text Mining with Perl\u003c\/i\u003e is ideal as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in text mining and as a reference for a variety of professionals who are interested in extracting information from text documents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46329904660721,"sku":"9781118210505","price":118.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781118210505_p0.jpg?v=1776431445","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118210505","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}