A Practical Example

Abstract

the form of a professional book that discusses text mining from a practical, nonmathematical standpoint. It also includes many kinds of sample texts and programs that are in the public domain; thus, you can download and use them free (Bilisoly, 2008). The author, Bilisoly, is a professor at Central Connecticut State University, where he developed and teaches a graduate-level course in text mining for that school’s new data mining program. He presents text mining in such an easy-to-understand format that we will paraphrase and emphasize some of the introductory comments in the book. The only thing that Bilisoly requires of his students is to be willing to learn to write some very simple programs using Perl, which is a programming language specifically designed to work with text. As Bilisoly points out, there are minimally three broad themes in text mining: