
Acknowledgments
Many people have contributed to making this book and the underlying open-source software
solutions a reality. We are thankful to all of you.
We would like to thank the contributing authors of this book, who shared their ex-
perience in the chapters and who thereby enable others to have a quick and successful
text mining start with open-source tools, providing successful application examples and
blueprints for the readers to tackle their text mining tasks and benefit from the strength of
using open and freely available tools.
Many thanks to Dr. Brian Nolan, Head of School of Informatics, Institute of Technology
Blanchardstown (ITB); and ...