Chapter 2

A Day at Work (with Text)

A Brief Introduction

E.L. Tonkin*,    * Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, London, UK Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Abstract

Text mining, information extraction, and opinion analysis are rich research areas, which have gained greatly in accessibility over the last 10–15 years. Today, there are many powerful tools and frameworks available, meaning that anybody with sufficient interest and time can integrate computational methods of working with text into their research or application domain. This chapter discusses the processes of identifying a text mining activity, choosing a goal, identifying or constructing a data set, selecting ...

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