Machine Learning in Java - Second Edition

Introducing text mining

Text mining, or text analytics, refers to the process of automatically extracting high-quality information from text documents, most often written in natural language, where high-quality information is considered to be relevant, novel, and interesting.

While a typical text analytics application is used to scan a set of documents to generate a search index, text mining can be used in many other applications, including text categorization into specific domains; text clustering to automatically organize a set of documents; sentiment analysis to identify and extract subjective information in documents; concept or entity extraction that is capable of identifying people, places, organizations, and other entities from documents; ...