An Introduction to Text Mining: Research Design, Data Collection, and Analysis

About Gabe IgnatowRada F. Mihalcea

Gabe Ignatow is Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Texas. His research interests are mainly in the areas of sociological theory digital research methods cognitive social science and the philosophy of social science. His most recent books are Text Mining and An Introduction to Text Mining both coauthored with Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan). He is also a coeditor with Wayne Brekhus (University of Missouri) of the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology. Rada Mihalcea is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are in computational linguistics with a focus on lexical semantics multilingual natural language processing and computational social sciences. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of the following journals: Computational Linguistics Language Resources and Evaluation Natural Language Engineering Research on Language and Computation IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She was a general chair for the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2015) and a program cochair for the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2011) and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2009). She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award (2008) and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2009). In 2013 she was made an honorary citizen of her hometown of Cluj-Napoca Romania.