Mining Text Data
An Overview of Text Mining Concepts and Applications
Presented by Bhavesh SantoshKumar Tupe 4 Department of Computer
Science
What is Text Mining?
Text Mining is interdisciplinary 4 combining Information Retrieval, Data
Mining, Machine Learning, Statistics, and Computational Linguistics to extract
high1quality information from large text corpora.
Key Sources of Text Data
News Articles Technical Papers & Books Digital Libraries
Timely reporting and evolving topics for In-depth domain knowledge and structured Curated collections and metadata for
trend analysis. content. large1scale mining.
Emails & Blogs Web Pages & Social Media
Personal and informal text useful for sentiment and behavior High1volume, real1time content reflecting public discourse.
analysis.
Goal: High-Quality Information
Derive meaningful, relevant, and novel insights from raw text by discovering
patterns and structuring knowledge.
Statistical Pattern Learning
Identify recurring patterns and trends across documents.
Topic Modeling
Uncover latent themes and organize large collections.
Statistical Language Modeling
Model language probabilities for prediction and generation.
Text Mining Process
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1. Structuring Input Text 2. Pattern Discovery
Parsing, linguistic feature extraction, Apply analytical and machine learning
remove irrelevant data, store in methods to find meaningful
structured form (database). structures.
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3. Evaluation & Interpretation
Assess pattern quality, usefulness, and actionable value.
Typical Text Mining Tasks
Text Categorization Text Clustering Concept / Entity Extraction
Assign documents to predefined Group similar documents without Identify names, places, and domain
classes. labels. concepts.
Taxonomy Production Sentiment Analysis Document Summarization
Build granular hierarchical category Detect opinions, polarity, and Condense documents to key points.
structures. emotional tone.
Entity3Relation Modeling
Map relationships between extracted entities.
Advanced Applications
Text mining supports sophisticated analyses across domains and languages.
Contextual Text Mining
Use context to improve relevance and
disambiguation.
Multilingual Analysis
Handle multiple languages and
cross1lingual insights.
Trust & Evolution Analysis
Track credibility, drift, and content
evolution over time.
Applications: Security, Biomedical literature, Online media analysis, CRM.
Tools & Knowledge Sources
Text mining tools are available across academia, open1source projects, and industry platforms.
WordNet Semantic Web Wikipedia
Lexical relations to enrich semantic Structured semantic data and ontologies Large, crowd1curated knowledge useful for
understanding. for reasoning. entity linking and background knowledge.
These resources enhance understanding and improve mining effectiveness.
Design Patterns for Text Mining Projects
Combine linguistic preprocessing with statistical models for robustness.
Use topic and entity models together to balance breadth and precision.
Continuously evaluate novelty, relevance, and interestingness of results.
Leverage domain resources (WordNet, Wikipedia, ontologies) to improve accuracy.
Takeaways
Text mining transforms abundant textual information into structured, actionable knowledge by combining IR, ML, statistics, and
linguistics. Practical success depends on careful preprocessing, appropriate modeling, rigorous evaluation, and use of external
knowledge sources.
Principle Practice Apply
Extract high1quality, relevant Follow structured process: prepare ³ Use in security, biomedicine, media
information from text. ³
discover evaluate. analysis, and CRM.
