Text Mining

Definition

Text mining involves extracting useful patterns or knowledge from large amounts of unstructured textual data using techniques such as natural language processing and machine learning.

Related terms

Information Retrieval (IR): The process of searching for relevant information within large collections of unstructured textual data.

Topic Modeling: A technique used in text mining to identify topics or themes present in a collection of documents.

Named Entity Recognition (NER): The process of identifying and classifying named entities, such as names of people, organizations, or locations, in a text.