If you are an R programmer, analyst, or data scientist who wants to gain experience in performing text data mining and analytics with R, then this book is for you. Exposure to working with statistical methods and language processing would be helpful.
What You Will LearnThis book will help you develop a thorough understanding of the steps in the text mining process and gain confidence in applying the concepts to build text-data driven products.
Starting with basic information about the statistics concepts used in text mining, the book will teach you how to access, cleanse, and process text using the R language and teach you how to analyze them. It will equip you with the tools and the associated knowledge about different tagging, chunking, and entailment approaches and their usage in natural language processing.
Moving on, the book will teach you different dimensionality reduction techniques and their implementation in R. Next, we will cover pattern recognition in text data utilizing classification mechanisms, perform entity recognition, and develop an ontology learning framework.
By the end of the book, you will develop a practical application from the concepts learned, and will understand how text mining can be leveraged to analyze the massively available data on social media.