Book review: An Introduction to Text Processing by Peter D. Smith. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, 300 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-262-19299-3

  • Authors:

  • Fazli Can

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGIR Forum
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

There are very few books on text processing, Recently I performed a search on the CD version of the Books in Print Plus, which is the master reference to currently available books, authors, and publishers in the US. I found just fifty books that contain the words "text" and "processing," and fourteen books that contain "document" and "processing" in their titles. (As a side light and for comparison: there are 644 books containing "information" and "retrieval" in their titles.) This book is a survey of text processing applications, and algorithms; a welcome addition to the literature.