A Survey on Information Retrieval, Text Categorization, and Web Crawling
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paper_title: A vector space model for automatic indexing

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In a document retrieval, or other pattern matching environment where stored entities (documents) are compared with each other or with incoming patterns (search requests), it appears that the best indexing (property) space is one where each entity lies as far away from the others as possible; in these circumstances the value of an indexing system may be expressible as a function of the density of the object space; in particular, retrieval performance may correlate inversely with space density. An approach based on space density computations is used to choose an optimum indexing vocabulary for a collection of documents. Typical evaluation results are shown, demonstating the usefulness of the model.
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paper_title: H. P. Luhn A Statistical Approach to Mechanized Encoding and Searching of Literary Information*

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Written communication of ideas is carried out on the basis of statistical probability in that a writer chooses that level of subject specificity and that combination of words which he feels will convey the most meaning. Since this process varies among individuals and since similar ideas are therefore relayed at different levels of specificity and by means of different words, the problem of literature searching by machines still presents major difficulties. A statistical approach to this problem will be outlined and the various steps of a system based on this approach will be described. Steps include the statistical analysis of a collection of documents in a field of interest, the establishment of a set of "notions" and the vocabulary by which they are expressed, the compilation of a thesaurus-type dictionary and index, the automatic encoding of documents by machine with the aid of such a dictionary, the encoding of topological notations (such as branched structures), the recording of the coded information, the establishment of a searching pattern for finding pertinent information, and the programming of appropriate machines to carry out a search.
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paper_title: The text mining handbook: advanced approaches in analyzing unstructured data

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Providing an in-depth examination of core text mining and link detection algorithms and operations, this text examines advanced pre-processing techniques, knowledge representation considerations, and visualization approaches.
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paper_title: The text mining handbook: advanced approaches in analyzing unstructured data

paper_content:

Providing an in-depth examination of core text mining and link detection algorithms and operations, this text examines advanced pre-processing techniques, knowledge representation considerations, and visualization approaches.
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paper_title: The text mining handbook: advanced approaches in analyzing unstructured data

paper_content:

Providing an in-depth examination of core text mining and link detection algorithms and operations, this text examines advanced pre-processing techniques, knowledge representation considerations, and visualization approaches.
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Title: A Survey on Information Retrieval, Text Categorization, and Web Crawling

Section 1: Introduction
Description 1: Provide an overview of information retrieval (IR), its historical context, and its applications.

Section 2: The Vector Space Model
Description 2: Explain the Vector Space Model for representing documents and queries and describe how it works.

Section 3: Term Frequency and Weighting
Description 3: Discuss the concept of term frequency, weighting of terms, and introduce Inverse Document Frequency (idf).

Section 4: Extracting and Calculating Term Frequency
Description 4: Describe tokenization and methods for extracting term frequency from documents.

Section 5: Document Preprocessing
Description 5: Explore various preprocessing techniques for documents to improve IR system performance.

Section 6: Stop Words
Description 6: Explain the concept of stop words and their exclusion during the tokenization process, along with potential issues.

Section 7: Normalization
Description 7: Discuss token normalization and the creation of equivalence classes.

Section 8: Hyphens, Punctuations and Digits
Description 8: Describe techniques for handling hyphens, punctuation, and digits in documents.

Section 9: Capitalization and Case-Folding
Description 9: Explain case-folding and strategies for handling capitalization in text documents.

Section 10: Stemming and Lemmatization
Description 10: Detail the processes of stemming and lemmatization to reduce inflection and derivation in words.

Section 11: Synonymy
Description 11: Discuss the importance of handling synonyms in IR and the use of a thesaurus.

Section 12: Evaluation of Information Retrieval
Description 12: Explain evaluation metrics such as recall and precision for assessing IR systems.

Section 13: Text Categorization
Description 13: Define text categorization and describe its applications and the main approaches used.

Section 14: Document Representation
Description 14: Explain different methods for representing documents for text categorization.

Section 15: Knowledge Engineering
Description 15: Discuss the knowledge engineering approach to building text categorization systems.

Section 16: Machine Learning
Description 16: Detail the machine learning approach for text categorization, including supervised learning and the steps involved.

Section 17: Naive Bayes Text Classification
Description 17: Provide an overview of the Naive Bayes supervised learning method for text classification.

Section 18: Support Vector Machines (SVM)
Description 18: Discuss the Support Vector Machine method for text classification and its key components.

Section 19: K-Nearest Neighbor
Description 19: Explain the k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm for text classification and its advantages and limitations.

Section 20: Comparison among Classifiers
Description 20: Compare various classifiers used in text categorization and discuss their performance.

Section 21: Web Crawling and the World Wide Web
Description 21: Introduce the concept of web crawling, its components, and the process of crawling the World Wide Web.

Section 22: Special Topics in Web Crawling
Description 22: Discuss advanced topics in web crawling, such as the robots exclusion protocol.