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Tapping the power of text mining

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Sifting through vast collections of unstructured or semistructured data beyond the reach of data mining tools, text mining tracks information sources, links isolated concepts in distant documents, maps relationships between activities, and helps answer questions.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 9
              Privacy and security in highly dynamic systems
              September 2006
              100 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1151030
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