Text Mining Tasks

Poll

What text mining tasks have you done in 2004-5? [91 voters] Clustering (47) 52% Text Classification (37) 41% Information Extraction (34) 37% Feature Selection (23) 25% Summarization (19) 21% Information Retrieval (18) 20% Tagging (13) 14% Other (14) 15% None (19) 21%

Comments

RK, Other text mining tasks:


Sentiment classification (or is this subsumed by text classification?)

Question answering, i.e.finding the best answer for a given question

• from a given set of question-answer pairs
  
• or by finding relevant sections of texts in a given collection

(or is this subsumed by information retrieval?)