{"product_id":"taming-text-grant-s-ingersoll-9781933988382","title":"Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It","description":"\u003cb\u003eSummary\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaming Text\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2013 Jolt Awards for Productivity, is a hands-on, example-driven guide to working with unstructured text in the context of real-world applications. This book explores how to automatically organize text using approaches such as full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization. The book guides you through examples illustrating each of these topics, as well as the foundations upon which they are built. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout this Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is so much text in our lives, we are practically drowningin it. Fortunately, there are innovative tools and techniquesfor managing unstructured information that can throw thesmart developer a much-needed lifeline. You'll find them in thisbook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaming Text\u003c\/i\u003e is a practical, example-driven guide to working withtext in real applications. This book introduces you to useful techniques like full-text search, proper name recognition, clustering, tagging, information extraction, and summarization.You'll explore real use cases as you systematically absorb thefoundations upon which they are built.Written in a clear and concise style, this book avoids jargon, explainingthe subject in terms you can understand without a backgroundin statistics or natural language processing. Examples arein Java, but the concepts can be applied in any language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten for Java developers, the book requires no prior knowledge of GWT. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of 2013 Jolt Awards: The Best Books--one of five notable books every serious programmer should read. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat's Inside\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen to use text-taming techniques\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImportant open-source libraries like Solr and Mahout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to build text-processing applications\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrant Ingersoll\u003c\/b\u003e is an engineer, speaker, and trainer, a Lucenecommitter, and a cofounder of the Mahout machine-learning project. \u003cb\u003eThomas Morton\u003c\/b\u003e is the primary developer of OpenNLP and Maximum Entropy. \u003cb\u003eDrew Farris\u003c\/b\u003e is a technology consultant, software developer, and contributor to Mahout, Lucene, and Solr. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Takes the mystery out of verycomplex processes.\"\u003c\/i\u003e--From the Foreword by Liz Liddy, Dean, iSchool, Syracuse University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting started taming text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFoundations of taming text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSearching\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFuzzy string matching\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdentifying people, places, and things\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClustering text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClassification, categorization, and tagging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilding an example question answering system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUntamed text: exploring the next frontier \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grant S. Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton, Drew Farris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193398838X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933988382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manning Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 7.38w x 0.69d","brand":"Grant S. Ingersoll","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937543815423,"sku":"9781933988382","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9557517f-ef0e-4b6f-b9c1-e108e38f49c5.jpg?v=1681430690","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/taming-text-grant-s-ingersoll-9781933988382","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}