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Text Data Mining

What is Text Data Mining (TDM)?

What is Text Mining, Text Data Mining, Text Analysis?

Text mining is the process of  extracting meaning from unstructured text data. Examples of this type of data are documents, websites, and social media, as well as semi-structured text formats like JSON, XML, and HTML. Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, including topic modeling and sentiment analysis, and Machine Learning (ML) techniques can be employed to explore text and better understand hard to see relationships in the data.

 

Source: National Library of Medicine (2024). https://www.nnlm.gov/guides/data-thesaurus/text-mining

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