Table of Contents

Overview.- Extracting Product Features and Opinions from Reviews.- Extracting Relations from Text: From Word Sequences to Dependency Paths.- Mining Diagnostic Text Reports by Learning to Annotate Knowledge Roles.- A Case Study in Natural Language Based Web Search.- Evaluating Self-Explanations in iSTART: Word Matching, Latent Semantic Analysis, and Topic Models.- Textual Signatures: Identifying Text-Types Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Measure the Cohesion of Text Structures.- Automatic Document Separation: A Combination of Probabilistic Classification and Finite-State Sequence Modeling.- Evolving Explanatory Novel Patterns for Semantically-Based Text Mining.- Handling of Imbalanced Data in Text Classification: Category-Based Term Weights.- Automatic Evaluation of Ontologies.- Linguistic Computing with UNIX Tools.

Reviews

From the reviews: "The papers in this book describe a range of natural language processing (NLP) techniques and applications, all originating from an ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) panel discussion. ! Overall, the contributions are well balanced with respect to the different approaches presented ! . The volume appears to serve its intended purpose, which is to provide an electric overview of the international research efforts in text mining, featuring relevant tools and techniques from NLP and machine learning." (Peter Jackson, Computing Reviews, March, 2008)