Library Intelligencer

Publication date: 15 September 2008

Publication Type(s): Briefing papers

JISC theme(s): e-Research1

September 2008

With an overwhelming amount of knowledge recorded in texts, it has become imperative to use automated techniques that can identify, extract, manage, integrate and exploit this knowledge for research and education, efficiently and systematically. Text mining exploits these techniques. The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) offers text mining services to UK researchers that enable semantic searching of text – that is, searches based on the meanings of words, phrases or terms in different contexts – thus improving access to information and increasing the efficiency of new research methodologies and techniques based on advanced information and communication technologies (e-science and e-research).