Publications

Text mining is currently seen as the only way to solve the information overload problem that is troubling the world, and also as a powerful way to serve customers better, to improve intelligence analysis capability for corporations and national security and to take better advantage of the available knowledge.

This independent book, enriched by a CD, with an impressive list of business cases provided by Microsoft, Dresdner Bank, TIM-Telecom Italia Mobile, Fraunhofer Institute, G+J/Bertelsmann Group, Temis, Megaputer and from practitioners and academics from Europe, North and South America, is edited by A.Zanasi (Carabinieri officer, for 16 years in IBM, META Group analyst, Temis SA cofounder, Bologna University professor, ESRAB member).

Titles of some of the chapters:

• Text Processing and Information Retrieval
• Information Extraction
• Text Clustering and Text Categorization
• Summarization and Visualization
• ROI for text mining projects
• Corporate and Government Intelligence
• Forecasting Telecom Competitive Market
• Text Mining in Banking
• Automotive Industry
• Text Mining in Life Sciences
• Media: Improving Documentalists Efficiency through Text Mining
• Virtual Communities Analysis and Personal Characteristics Extraction.
• Crime Patterns Detection
• SW Analysis