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Text Mining

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TL;DR. The process of extracting high-quality information from text by identifying patterns and trends.

Technical Definition

The process of extracting high-quality information from text by identifying patterns and trends.

How it works

Text mining is often used interchangeably with text analytics, applying various NLP and machine learning techniques to discover insights from large collections of text. Its applications include sentiment analysis, spam filtering, topic discovery, and information retrieval. The goal is to convert unstructured text into meaningful, structured data for analysis.