Abstract2.1 Introduction2.2 Encouraging an Interest in Text Mining2.3 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Text Mining2.4 Manual Annotation: Preparing for Evaluation2.5 Common Text Mining Tasks2.6 Basic Corpus Analysis2.7 Preprocessing a Text2.8 Extracting Features from a Text2.9 Information Extraction2.10 Applications of Indexing and Metadata Extraction2.11 Extraction of Subjective Views2.12 Build, Customise or Apply? Choosing an Appropriate Implementation2.13 Evaluation2.14 The Role of Visualisation in Text Mining2.15 Visualisation Tools and Frameworks2.16 Conclusions