Natural Language Processing for Online Applications; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Natural language processing; Chapter 2: Document retrieval; Chapter 3: Information extraction; Chapter 4: Text categorization; Chapter 5: Towards text mining; Index; Natural Language Processing
Summary
This text covers the technologies of document retrieval, information extraction, and text categorization in a way which highlights commonalities in terms of both general principles and practical concerns. It assumes some mathematical background on the part of the reader, but the chapters typically begin with a non-mathematical account of the key issues. Current research topics are covered only to the extent that they are informing current applications; detailed coverage of longer term research and more theoretical treatments should be sought elsewhere. There are many pointers at the ends of th
