Text Mining: Concepts, Applications, Tools and Issues An Overview

Abstract

Nowadays there is an increasing trend in the usage of computers for storing documents. As a result of it substantial volume of data is stored in the computers in the form of documents. The documents can be of any form such as structured documents, semi-structured documents and unstructured documents. Retrieving useful information from huge volume of documents is very tedious task. Text mining is an inspiring research area as it tries to discover knowledge from unstructured text. This paper gives an overview of concepts, applications, issues and tools used for text mining.