What is text mining?

Simple explanation of how text mining and natural language processing (NLP) works, the difference with keyword search and how machine learning fits in. read more

Text mining, which is sometimes referred to “text analytics” is one way to make qualitative or “unstructured” data usable by a computer. Qualitative data is descriptive data that cannot be measured in numbers and often includes qualities of appearance like color, texture, and textual description. read more

Text mining is similar in nature to data mining, but with a focus on text instead of more structured forms of data. However, one of the first steps in the text mining process is to organize and structure the data in some fashion so it can be subjected to both qualitative and quantitative analysis. read more

Text Analytics, also known as text mining, is the process of examining large collections of written resources to generate new information, and to transform the unstructured text into structured data for use in further analysis. read more