Text Mining A Guidebook for the Social Sciences

• Main Authors: Ignatow, Gabriel (Author), Mihalcea, Rada (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles SAGE Publications, Inc 2017
• Subjects: Social sciences > Research > Methodology; Discourse analysis > Data processing; Communication > Network analsysis; Natural language processing (Computer science); Data mining
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• Physical Description: xvi, 188 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781483369341

This guidebook brings together a broad range of contemporary qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic and practical guidance on analyzing large text collections. This accessible book, surveys the fast-changing landscape of data sources, programming languages, software packages, and methods of analysis available today. Suitable for novice and experienced researchers alike, the book will help readers use text mining techniques more efficiently and productively.