Knowledge Mining: Proceedings of the NEMIS 2004 Final Conference

Text mining is an exciting application field and an area of scientific - search that is currently under rapid development. It uses techniques from well-established scientific fields (e. g. data mining, machine learning, infor- tion retrieval, natural language processing, case-based reasoning, statistics and knowledge management) in an effort to help people gain insight, und- stand and interpret large quantities of (usually) semi-structured and unstr- tured data. Despite the advances made du...