Abstract
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Data mining, and in particular text mining, has attracted much attention in recent years due to the vast amounts of data available, and the rate of growth. Data mining tools can be used to uncover patterns or hidden relations in the available data, and can potentially contribute greatly to business strategy decisions, knowledge bases, and scientific and medical research. In contrast to data mining, where one looks for patterns and knowledge in structured databases, text mining deals with unstructured, or semi structured, text data such as reports, e-mails or web-pages.
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