Taming Text

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Getting started taming text

Figure 1.1. A simple workflow for answering questions posed to a QA system

Chapter 2. Foundations of taming text

Figure 2.1. Sample parsing of a sentence using the OpenNLP parser

Chapter 3. Searching

Figure 3.1. Snippet of search results for the query “LCD TV” from Amazon.com. Image captured 9/2/2012.

Figure 3.2. Facets for the search term “LCD TV” after choosing the Electronics facet. Image captured 9/2/2012.

Figure 3.3. Search results for “LCD TV” narrowed down by several facets. Captured 9/2/12

Figure 3.4. The inverted index data structure maps terms to the documents they occur in, enabling fast lookup of query terms in a search engine. The left side represents a sampling of the vocabulary ...