This chapter "The Seven Practice Areas of Text Analytics" is from the book "Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-Structured Text Data Applications", written by G. Miner, D. Delen, J. Elder, A. Fast, T. Hill, and R. Nisbet, Elsevier, January 2012.
Presently, text mining is a loosely organized set of competing technologies with no clear dominance among them. This book chapter organizes text analytics methods as seven complementary practice areas, showing how to select amongst them for your objectives.
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