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Panning for Gold on the Internet.(Dow Chemical's "text mining" operation)(Brief Article)
Adhesives & Sealants Industry, October, 2001 by Kramer, Karen L.
One of the best parts of my job is discovery. Terms that were unheard of yesterday become part of everyday language. Here's a new one -- "text mining" -- that Dow Chemical brings to our attention.
The R&D function of Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., is using cutting-edge technical capabilities in its information-technology laboratory to locate data from hundreds of thousands of documents on the Internet and from other sources as well. The technology is known as "text mining." The goal of the research is to discover knowledge and patterns of information that are nonrecognizable and nonretrievable using traditional database-management or search-engine tools.
Dow first began exploring opportunities in text mining during 1996. Dow is now working with...
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