by ChengXiang Zhai CONTENT 1. Overview Text Mining and Analysis 2. Natural Language Processing & Text Representation 3. Word Association Mining and Analysis └ Paradigmatic └ Syntagmatic 7. Topic Mining and Analysis 8. Probabilistic Topic Models 9. Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) 10. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) 11. Text Clustering 12. Text Categorization 13. Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis 14. Latent Aspect Rating Analysis 15. Text-Based Prediction 16. Contextual Text Mining 3. Word Association Mining and Analysis 3.1 Paradigmatic Relation Discovery ㆍParadigmatic Relation A & B have paradigmatic relation if they can be substituted for each other (i.e., A & B are in the same class) 3.2. Syntagmatic Relation Discovery In semiotics, syntagmatic analysis is analysis of syntax or surface structure (syntagmatic structure) as opposed to paradigms (paradigmatic analysis). This is often achieved using commutation tests....