Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications

Chapter 9

Entity Extraction

Contents

Preamble

Introduction

Text Features for Entity Extraction

Strategies for Entity Extraction

Choosing an Entity Extraction Approach

Evaluating Entity Extraction

Summary

Postscript

References

Preamble

We have introduced general classification and prediction operations in text mining and some of the common tools used to accomplish it. Perhaps, you have done one or more tutorials; if so, you have begun to learn by doing. We have kept you insulated from the advanced aspects of any text mining operation, because we wanted to build your text mining skills in layers. With the introduction and tutorials behind you, we can enrich your understanding of some of the advanced topics in text mining, the first of which is ...