Text Mining

Every section below contains a few papers (or even Wikipedia pages) that are easy to read, without much math. Students sometimes ask more advanced questions (e.g. differences between topic modelling techniques), so here is a list of some more advanced books.

Note that these books include some mathematics.

• H. Dailanis: Clinical Text Mining
• C. C. Aggarwal and C. Zhai: Mining Text Data (free download)
• D. Jurafsky and J. H. Martin: Speech and Language Processing (free book)

The first book covers specifically applications in healthcare, while the second book is more general. I recommend a combination of the two for a deeper insight. The third book is a nice general overview of text mining, which is easy to read.