Text Analytics: Advances and Challenges

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Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Damon Mayaffre, Michelangelo Misuraca
Springer Nature, Nov 24, 2020 - Social Science - 302 pages
Focusing on methodologies, applications and challenges of textual data analysis and related fields, this book gathers selected and peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 14th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2018), held in Rome, Italy, on June 12-15, 2018. Statistical analysis of textual data is a multidisciplinary field of research that has been mainly fostered by statistics, linguistics, mathematics and computer science. The respective sections of the book focus on techniques, methods and models for text analytics, dictionaries and specific languages, multilingual text analysis, and the applications of text analytics. The interdisciplinary contributions cover topics including text mining, text analytics, network text analysis, information extraction, sentiment analysis, web mining, social media analysis, corpus and quantitative linguistics, statistical and computational methods, and textual data in sociology, psychology, politics, law and marketing.
 

Contents

Present Past and Future
3
Unsupervised Analytic Strategies to Explore Large Document Collections
16
Studying Narrative Flows by Text Analysis and Network Text Analysis
29
From Statistics to Deep Learning
41
The Case of the Big Bang Theory
55
A Conversation Analysis of Interactions in Personal Finance Forums
65
Dictionaries and Specific Languages
75
The Italian Accounting Jurisdiction Case
76
LBC Corpora A Tool for Bilingual Lexicographic Writing
167
The Conditional Perfect A Quantitative Analysis in EnglishFrench ComparableParallel Corpora
179
Repeated and Anaphoric Segments Applied to Trilingual Knowledge Extraction
198
Applications
212
A Brief Review
213
Where Are the Social Sciences Going to? The Case of the EUFunded SSH Research Projects
225
The Case of the National University of Colombia
241
Analyzing Occupational Safety Culture Through Mass Media Monitoring
252

Comparing VoBIS and NVdB
91
An Invariant or a Contextual Relationship?
100
Preliminary Results on Judgments
117
Using the First Axis of a Correspondence Analysis as an Analytic Tool
127
What Can Correspondence Analysis Tell Us About Genre and Diachronic Variation?
145
Multilingual Text Analysis
158
How to Think About Finding a Sign for a Multilingual and Multimodal FrenchWrittenFrench Sign Language Platform?
161
What Volunteers Do? A Textual Analysis of Voluntary Activities in the Italian Context
265
Free Text Analysis in Electronic Clinical Documentation
277
A Text Mining Approach
287
Author Index
299
Subject Index
301
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Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi is an Associate Professor of Social Statistics at the Department of Enterprise Engineering Mario Lucertini, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy. She teaches courses on exploratory methods for data analysis and social media analytics. She is qualified as a Full Professor of Demography and Social Statistics and has been the director of the Master’s program in Data Science since 2014. A past advisor to the Italian Society of Demography and Statistics and the Italian Statistical Society, she has authored numerous scientific articles in national and international journals. Her main research topics include text clustering and social indicators.

Damon Mayaffre is a CNRS researcher and a Professor at the Nice Côte d’Azur University, France. He is a specialist in the statistical analysis of textual data and has published several books on the political discourse of French presidents.

Michelangelo Misuraca is an Associate Professor of Statistics for Social Sciences at the Department of Business Administration and Law, University of Calabria, Italy. He has taught courses on textual statistics and statistics for the social sciences at the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Calabria. A Fellow of the Italian Statistical Society and of the Royal Statistical Society, his research interests are mainly in the areas of textual statistics, text mining and social media mining.