UC Irvine Researchers 'Text Mine' The New York Times

posted by   nikhil (150)   29 months ago (today.uci.edu)

Text mining allows a computer to extract useful information from unstructured text. Until recently, text mining required a great deal of preparation before documents could be analyzed in a meaningful way. A new text-mining technique called “topic modeling” – which UCI scientists used in their New York Times experiment – looks for patterns of words that tend to occur together in documents, then automatically categorizes those words into topics – all with minimal human effort.