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The wikipedia pages on Text mining and Natural language processing are very good starting points.
You can find a brief overview about some text mining techniques is in this paper while textanalysis.info offers a regularly updated collection of links on text analysis and related topics.
These are some already published books on this topic that I found very useful:
While there is this upcoming book, that looks very promising: