Taming Text

Foreword

At a time when the demand for high-quality text processing capabilities continues to grow at an exponential rate, it’s difficult to think of any sector or business that doesn’t rely on some type of textual information. The burgeoning web-based economy has dramatically and swiftly increased this reliance. Simultaneously, the need for talented technical experts is increasing at a fast pace. Into this environment comes an excellent, very pragmatic book, Taming Text, offering substantive, real-world, tested guidance and instruction.

Grant Ingersoll and Drew Farris, two excellent and highly experienced software engineers with whom I’ve worked for many years, and Tom Morton, a well-respected contributor to the natural language processing ...