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Text analysis in Python for social scientists : discovery and exploration /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hovy, Dirk (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Elements in quantitative and computational methods for social science.
Subjects:
Text data mining.
Social sciences > Data processing.
Python (Computer program language)
Sciences sociales > Informatique.
Python (Langage de programmation)
Text data mining
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • 1. Prerequisites
  • 2. What's in a word
  • 3. Regular expressions
  • 4. Pointwise mutual information
  • 5. Representing text
  • Exploration: finding structure in the data
  • 6. Matrix factorization
  • 7. Clustering
  • 8. Language models
  • 9. Topic models
  • Appendix A: English stopwords
  • Appendix B: Probabilities
  • References.