Generating Value from Textual Discovery

  • Authors:
  • Peter Jackson

  • Affiliations:
  • Chief Scientist, Thomson Corporation, 610 Opperman Drive, Eagan, MN 55123, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part III: ICCS 2007
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Much of the information associated with legal, financial, medical and educational domains is stored in electronic document repositories and retrievable only by full text search. The ability of publishers to enhance such documents through traditional editorial processes struggles to keep pace with the volume and variety of textual data currently available in proprietary collections and on the Web. Fortunately, text mining tools that support the automatic classification, summarization, and linking of documents can be developed and deployed cost effectively. The outcome is a more flexible and dynamic approach to meta-data generation that does a better job of supporting the searching and browsing behaviors of information consumers. This paper describes the application of text and data mining techniques to legal information in a manner that enables powerful report generation and document recommendation services.