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An introduction to text mining: research design, data collection, and analysis

Gabe Ignatow, Rada F. Mihalcea
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2018]
Copyright:
©2018

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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