posted on 2010-07-01, 00:00authored byJaime G. Carbonell, Mark Craven, Steve Fienberg, Tom Mitchell, Yiming Yang
An increasing fraction of the world's information and data is now represented in textual form. For example, the World Wide Web, online news feeds, and other Internet sources contain a tremendous volume of information. However, users seeking information do not have unlimited attention, and therefore methods of summarizing, clustering, categorizing and discovering patterns in the information space are required.