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Summary:

"The book covers the most critical issues that must be taken into consideration for research projects, including web scraping and crawling, strategic data selection, data sampling, use of specific text analysis methods, and report writing. In addition to covering technical aspects of various approaches to contemporary text mining and analysis, the book covers ethical and philosophical dimensions of text-based research and social science research design."--Page 4 of cover.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• About the authors
• Part I. Foundations. Text mining and text analysis ; Acquiring data ; Research ethics ; The philosophy and logic of text mining
• Pat II. Research design and basic tools. Designing your research project ; Web scraping and crawling
• Part III. Text mining fundamentals. Lexical resources ; Basic text processing ; Supervised learning
• Part IV. Text analysis methods from the humanities and social sciences. Analyzing narratives ; Analyzing themes ; Analyzing metaphors
• Part V. Text mining methods from computer science. Text classification ; Opinion mining ; Information extraction ; Analyzing topics
• Part VI. Writing and reporting your research. Writing and reporting your research
• Appendices. Data sources for text mining ; Text preparation and cleaning software ; General text analysis software ; Qualitative data analysis software ; Opinion mining software ; Concordance and keyword frequency software ; Visualization software ; List of websites ; Statistical tools
• Glossary
• References
• Index.

Author/Creator:

Ignatow, Gabe , author

Contributors:

Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

An introduction to text mining: research design, data collection, and analysis [by Ignatow, G.]

Subjects:

Data mining

Social sciences — Research

Social sciences

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

QA76.9.D343 I425 2018

ISBNs:

9781506337005 (paperback)
1506337007 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017038203

OCLC Numbers:

990287441