2002 by
Prentice Hall, Inc.
14-20
nFunctions and
Technologies
nEnhanced search and retrieval: improves
the process greatly because
it’s based on the structure
of language
nSummarization: based on lexical
analysis; “indicative summaries”:
abstracts that indicate content;
“informative summaries”: contain enough
content to replace entire original document
nVisualization: often called “InfoViz” as an analogy to data visualization or “dataviz”
Document
Mining (cont.)