Learning text analysis and text semantics where to start?

Question

Hello all Im very interested in text analysis, where can I start leaning about the subject? Algorithms and stuff for beginners?

Answer 1

Paul Graham's series of essays on spam detection are interesting light reading and have some links to research.

Answer 2

You might try looking for scientific papers.

Start with a keyword search in Google Scholar, each paper has a number of references, which should be a good starting point for you.

Answer 3

Please see my answer to this question for a list of textbooks regarding natural language processing. Also, Lucene in Action is a great practical book about a leading full-text-search library. On a similar vein, lucid imagination is a new company that has a large repository of articles about information retrieval.