An introduction to text mining
Subtitle: research design, data collection, and analysis
By: Gabe Ignatow, University of North Texas, Rada F. Mihalcea, University of Michigan
Contributors: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- author
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781506337005
Subjects: Data mining; Social sciences; Research
Other titles: Text mining
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: About the authors; title: Foundations; title: Text mining and text analysis; title: Acquiring data; title: Research ethics; title: The philosophy and logic of text mining; title: Research design and basic tools; title: Designing your research project; title: Web scraping and crawling; title: Text mining fundamentals; title: Lexical resources; title: Basic text processing; title: Supervised learning; title: Text analysis methods from the humanities and social sciences; title: Analyzing narratives; title: Analyzing themes; title: Analyzing metaphors; title: Text mining methods from computer science; title: Text classification; title: Opinion mining; title: Information extraction; title: Analyzing topics; title: Writing and reporting your research; title: Writing and reporting your research; title: Appendix A. Data sources for text mining; title: Appendix B. Text preparation and cleaning software; title: Appendix C. General text analysis software; title: Appendix D. Qualitative data analysis software; title: Appendix E. Opinion mining software; title: Appendix F. Concordance and keyword frequency software; title: Appendix G. Visualization software; title: Appendix H. List of websites; title: Appendix I. Statistical tools; title: Glossary; title: References.