You can try three books that is : The text mining handbook by Ronan Feldman and James sanger published by cambridge, Fundamental of predictive text mining author Sholom M weis published by springer and Natural Language processing and text mining author anne Kaopublished by Springer.

Thanks for your prompt reply Dony, I'll check those out.

Dear Erik,

Here are the biblogrpahic deatils of a good book on text mining.

Feldman, Ronen, and James Sanger, eds. The text mining handbook: advanced approaches in analyzing unstructured data. Cambridge University Press, 2007.‏

Best regrads,

Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner

Dear Erik,

After I have sent you my answer, I saw that this book was already proposed to you.

However, my details are more exaact. Ronen (not Ronan) and it's from 2007.

Best!

Yaakov

Yaakov,

Thank you! Two votes for that book is a good sign.

-Erik

Dear Erik,

I can suggest you these books:

the first one (a complete introduction to the field):

- Mining Text Data (2012) by Charu C. Aggarwal (Editor), ChengXiang Zhai (Editor)

and also:

- Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications by Gary Miner (Author) et al.

I hope you can find useful these books.

Best Regards,

Carlo