What is Text Mining?
Text mining is the process of extracting and downloading textual content. During the process, text can be retrieved from non-text content – images, presentations, graphs, tables – as well. Text mining mostly stands for collecting content on the Internet.
What are the collected content good for?
Collecting textual content can serve many purposes. The data collected by the text mining method can be used for the followings:
- research and development projects
- creating new contents and publications
- service, information, thematic sites, blogs, public interest and open data portals
- analyzes, statistics, visualizations
- enterprise processes / operations, data backup
- competitor and media monitoring
- searchable databases
- artificial intelligence, machine learning processes
- data change monitoring