Re: Practical Text Mining with Perl: Good/Bad?

[tomfahle]

Summary

Practical Text Mining with Perl is a book for beginners in Perl, beginners in GNU-R and beginners in Text-Mining.

Some details

From the foreword of the book (page xvii):

"This book introduces the basic ideas of text mining, which is a group of techniques that extracts useful information from one or more texts. This is a practical book, one that focuses on applications and examples. Although some statistics and mathematics is required, it is kept to a minimum, and what is used is explained."

Throughout the book Perl is chained to GNU-R:

Perl is used to extract data. R does the math (even if it could be done easily in Perl) and plots the graphics.

There are a lot of code examples throughout the book. Everthing is explained in layman's terms.

use strict; and use warnings; are never used.

The book covers the following CPAN-Modules:

• Acme::Umlautify
• Lingua::EN::Numbers
• Lingua::EN:Sentence
• Lingua::EN::Tagger
• Lingua::StopWords
• LWP
• Math::Trig
• Statistics::R

Hope this helps.

Thomas

[Anonymous Monk]

Dr. Bilisoly, is a professor at CCSU and teaches text mining in the data mining program.