Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text analytics -- Natural-language processing -- Information extraction -- Document representation -- Association rules mining -- Corpus-based semantic analysis -- Document clustering -- Topic modeling -- Document categorization.

"Text Analytics: An Introduction to the Science and Applications of Unstructured Information Analysis is a concise and accessible introduction to the science and applications of text analytics (or text mining), which enables automatic knowledge discovery from unstructured information sources, both for industrial and academic purposes. The book introduces the main concepts, models, and computational techniques that enable the reader to solve real decision-making problems arising from textual and/or documentary sources"--