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Exploring Textual Data

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 4)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 1-3
  3. Textual Statistics Scope and Applications

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 5-20
  4. The Units of Textual Statistics

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 21-43
  5. Correspondence Analysis of Lexical Tables

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 45-79
  6. Cluster Analysis of Words and Texts

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 81-100
  7. Visualization of Textual Data

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 101-128
  8. Characteristic Textual Units, Modal Responses and Modal Texts

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 129-145
  9. Longitudinal Partitions, Textual Time Series

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 147-162
  10. Textual Discriminant Analysis

    • Ludovic Lebart, André Salem, Lisette Berry
    Pages 163-199
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 200-247

About this book

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.

Reviews

`... this book should becomne an essential reference for any researcher interested in the quantitative analysis of textual data. I know of no other book that covers the same range of topics with this amount of detail. ... researchers from any field who use quantitative techniques to process texts should find much here that will be of use.'
Computational Linguistics, 25:1 (1999)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

    Ludovic Lebart

  • Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

    André Salem

  • L. Berry Associates, Inc., New York, USA

    Lisette Berry

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