Data Science: Text Mining (Definitions)

"The application of data mining techniques to discover actionable and meaningful patterns, profiles, and trends from documents or other text data." (Linda Volonino & Efraim Turban, "Information Technology for Management" 8th Ed, 2011)

"The process of evaluating unstructured text for patterns, extract actionable data and sentiment via semantic analysis, statistical methods, etc." (DAMA International, "The DAMA Dictionary of Data Management", 2011)

"Performing detailed full–text searches on the content of document." (Robert F Smallwood, "Managing Electronic Records: Methods, Best Practices, and Technologies", 2013)

"Data-mining techniques applied to text. Because these rely on the same underlying analytic approaches as text analysis, text mining is synonymous with text analysis, and the use of the term mining is primarily a matter of style and context." (Meta S Brown, "Data Mining For Dummies", 2014)

"Performing detailed full-text searches on the content of document." (Robert F Smallwood, "Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies, and Best Practices", 2014)

"It is the process of extracting information from textual sources, via their grammatical and statistical properties. Applications of text mining include security monitoring and analysis of online texts such as blogs, web-pages, web-posts, etc." (Hamid R Arabnia et al, "Application of Big Data for National Security", 2015)

"The analysis of raw data to produce results specific to a particular inquiry (e.g., how often a particular word is used, whether a particular product is in demand, how a particular consumer reacts to advertisements)." (James R Kalyvas & Michael R Overly, "Big Data: A Businessand Legal Guide", 2015)

"Performing detailed full-text searches on the content of document." (Robert F Smallwood, "Information Governance for Healthcare Professionals", 2018)

"The search and extraction of text, and its possible conversion to numerical data that is used for data analysis." (David Natingga, "Data Science Algorithms in a Week" 2nd Ed., 2018)

"The process of extracting information from collections of textual data and utilizing it for business objectives." (Gartner)