BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Mining Text Data Eds. Charu Aggarwal and ChengXiang Zhai Springer, February 2012 Approximately 500 pages This is a detailed survey book on text mining, which discusses the key topics in the area. This includes conventional topics such as clustering, classification, and dimensionality reduction; emerging topics such as social networks, multimedia and transfer learning; as well as applications such as opinion mining and biomedical data. Each chapter is a detailed survey which is written by a well known researcher from the field. The content of the book is carefully designed to extensively and comprehensively cover the area of text mining. The table of contents and sample survey chapters on clustering and classification may be found at: http://www.charuaggarwal.net/text-content.pdf