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How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It
Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, and Andrew L. Farris
Foreword by Liz Liddy
  • December 2012
  • ISBN 9781933988382
  • 320 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean

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Taming Text is a hands-on, example-driven guide to working with unstructured text in the context of real-world applications. This book explores how to automatically organize text using approaches such as full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. The book guides you through examples illustrating each of these topics, as well as the foundations upon which they are built.

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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.

Taming Text is a practical, example-driven guide to working with text in real applications. This book introduces you to 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.

what's inside

  • When to use text-taming techniques
  • Important open-source libraries like Solr and Mahout
  • How to build text-processing applications

about the authors

Grant Ingersoll is an engineer, speaker, and trainer, a Lucene committer, and a cofounder of the Mahout machine-learning project. Thomas Morton is the primary developer of OpenNLP and Maximum Entropy. Drew Farris is a technology consultant, soft ware developer, and contributor to Mahout, Lucene, and Solr.

Takes the mystery out of very complex processes.

From the Foreword by Liz Liddy, Dean, iSchool, Syracuse University

Text analysis and processing as it should be: clear, practical, and open source!

David Weiss, Carrot Search s.c.

Shows how to unlock and exploit information locked up in text documents.

Rick Wagner, Red Hat

Teaches text concepts with examples ... makes text search easy.

Doug Warren, Java Web Services

A great overview of tools and techniques for text processing.

Julien Nioche, DigitalPebble, Ltd.

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