From: "Williams, Leslie" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 12:29:15 -0600 Here are some suggestions from a colleague. Leslie Leslie Williams, MLIS | Acquisitions & Assessment Librarian University of Colorado Denver | Auraria Library 1100 Lawrence Street, Denver CO 80204 [log in to unmask] library.auraria.edu ************** I know people turn their noses up at Wikipedia, but I'd start there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_mining I also like this one: Hunter L, Cohen KB. Biomedical language processing: what's beyond PubMed? Mol Cell. 2006 Mar 3;21(5):589-94. PMID: 16507357 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC1702322 Free PMC Article The references list in Wikipedia refers to some good basic texts: Ananiadou, S. and McNaught, J. (Editors) (2006). Text Mining for Biology and Biomedicine. Artech House Books. ISBN 978-1-58053-984-5 Bilisoly, R. (2008). Practical Text Mining with Perl. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-17643-6 Feldman, R., and Sanger, J. (2006). The Text Mining Handbook. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83657-9 Indurkhya, N., and Damerau, F. (2010). Handbook Of Natural Language Processing, 2nd Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-8592-1 Kao, A., and Poteet, S. (Editors). Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. Springer. ISBN 1-84628-175-X Konchady, M. Text Mining Application Programming (Programming Series). Charles River Media. ISBN 1-58450-460-9 Manning, C., and Schutze, H. (1999). Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13360-9 Miner, G., Elder, J., Hill. T, Nisbet, R., Delen, D. and Fast, A. (2012). Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications. Elsevier Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-386979-1 McKnight, W. (2005). "Building business intelligence: Text data mining in business intelligence". DM Review, 21-22. Srivastava, A., and Sahami. M. (2009). Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-5940-3 ~ Lynne Lynne M. Fox, AMLS, MA, AHIP, Education Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 12950 E. Montview Blvd., MS A003 Aurora, CO 80045 [log in to unmask], http://hslibrary.ucdenver.edu/