Practical Text Mining With Per1

This book has three broad themes. First, text mining is built upon counting and text pattern matching. Second, although language is complex, some aspects of it can be studied by considering its simpler properties. Third, combining computer and human strengths is a powerful way to study language. We briefly consider each of these. First, text pattern matching means identifying a pattern of letters in a document. For example, finding all instances of the word cat requires using a variety of patterns, some of which are below.