Explain Motivation for Text Mining.
Motivation for Text Mining
- Text mining is well-motivated, due to the fact that much of the world’s data can be found in free text form (newspaper articles, emails, literature, etc.). There is a lot of information available to me.
- While mining free text has the same goals as data mining, in general, extracting useful knowledge/stats/trends), text mining must overcome a major difficulty – there is no explicit structure.
- Machines can reason will relational data well since schemas are explicitly available. Free text, however, encodes all semantic information within natural language. Our text mining algorithms, then, must make some sense out of this natural language representation. Humans are great at doing this, but this has proved to be a problem for machines.
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