ABSTRACT Text mining, also known as knowledge discovery from text, and document information mining, refers to the process of extracting interesting patterns from very large text corpus for the purposes of discovering knowledge. Text mining is an interdisciplinary field involving information retrieval, text understanding, information extraction, clustering, categorization, visualization, database technology, machine learning, and data mining. Regarded by many as the next wave of knowledge discovery, text mining has a very high commercial value. This …showed first 75 words of 9640 total…

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