KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 4
Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis
EXPLORING TEXTUAL DATA
by
Ludovic Lebart
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
André Salem
Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
Lisette Berry
L. Berry Associates, Inc., New York, USA
Researchers in a number of disciplines deal with large text sets requiring
both text management and text analysis. Faced with a large amount of
textual data collected in marketing surveys, literary investigations,
historical archives and documentary data bases, these researchers require
assistance with organizing, describing and comparing texts.
Exploring Textual Data demonstrates how exploratory multivariate
statistical methods such as correspondence analysis and cluster analysis
can be used to help investigate, assimilate and evaluate textual data. The
main text does not contain any strictly mathematical demonstrations, making
it accessible to a large audience. This book is very user-friendly with
proofs abstracted in the appendices. Full definitions of concepts,
implementations of procedures and rules for reading and interpreting
results are fully explored. A succession of examples is intended to allow
the reader to appreciate the variety of actual and potential applications
and the complementary processing methods. A glossary of terms is provided.
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997
Contents
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Foreword.
Introduction.
1. Textual Statistics: Scope and Applications.
2.The Units of Textual Statistics.
3. Correspondence Analysis of Lexical Tables.
4. Cluster Analysis of Words and Texts.
5. Visualization of Textual Data.
6. Characteristic Textual Units, Modal Responses and Modal Texts.
7. Longitudinal Partition, Textual Time Series.
8. Textual Discriminant Analysis.
Appendix 1: Singular Value Decomposition and Correspondence Analysis.
Appendix 2: Clustering Techniques.
Appendix 3: More Details About the Nonparametric Estimation Model.
Appendix 4: Search for Repeated Segments in a Corpus.
Glossary.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
Symbols.
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PREVIOUS VOLUMES
Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996
Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997
Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
Thierry Dutoit
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7
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