Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications

Chapter 5

Text Mining Methodology

Contents

Preamble

Text Mining Applications

Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM)

Example 1: An Exploratory Literature Survey Using Text Mining

Postscript

References

Preamble

The process that you follow in an endeavor is at least as important as what methodology you follow to accomplish it. There are several data mining process models used commonly by data miners, but there is no accepted process model for text mining. This chapter presents a proposed process for text mining, which will guide you in the performance of any of the five text mining application areas described in the previous chapter.

Text Mining Applications

Text mining applications are so broad in their scope and so varied ...