文档介绍：Survey of Text Mining II
Michael W. Berry • Malu Castellanos
Editors
Survey of Text Mining II
Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval
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Michael W. Berry, BS, MS, PhD Malu Castellanos, PhD
Department puter Science Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
University of Tennessee, USA Palo Alto, California, USA
ISBN 978-1-84800-045-2 e-ISBN 978-1-84800-046-9
DOI: -1-84800-046-9
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Preface
As we enter the third decade of the World Wide Web (WWW), the textual revolution
has seen a tremendous change in the availability of online information. Finding infor-
mation for just about any need has never been more automatic—just a keystroke or
mouseclick away. While the digitalization and creation of tex