Text Mining

Predictive Methods for Analyzing Unstructured Information
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-387-95433-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1200 g

Data mining is a mature technology. The prediction problem, looking for predictive patterns in data, has been widely studied. Strong me- ods are available to the practitioner. These methods process structured numerical information, where uniform measurements are taken over a sample of data. Text is often described as unstructured information. So, it would seem, text and numerical data are different, requiring different methods. Or are they? In our view, a prediction problem can be solved by the same methods, whether the data are structured - merical measurements or unstructured text. Text and documents can be transformed into measured values, such as the presence or absence of words, and the same methods that have proven successful for pred- tive data mining can be applied to text. Yet, there are key differences. Evaluation techniques must be adapted to the chronological order of publication and to alternative measures of error. Because the data are documents, more specialized analytical methods may be preferred for text. Moreover, the methods must be modi?ed to accommodate very high dimensions: tens of thousands of words and documents. Still, the central themes are similar.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss, Sholom M

Indurkhya, Nitin

Zhang, Tong

Damerau, Fred

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Datenkompression, Dokumentaustauschformate
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Zeichen- und Zahlendarstellungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Overview of Text Mining.- From Textual Information to Numerical Vectors.- Using Text for Prediction.- Information Retrieval and Text Mining.- Finding Structure in a Document Collection.- Looking for Information in Documents.- Case Studies.- Emerging Directions.