Data mining (DM), also called Knowledge-Discovery in Databases (KDD) or Knowledge-Discovery and Data Mining, is the process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns using tools such as classification, association rule mining, clusteri
It is important to differentiate between text data mining and information access (or information retrieval, as it is more widely known)... the goal of data mining is to discover or derive new information from data, finding patterns across datasets, and/o
Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. The reason for their immediate success is the fact that no specific skills are needed for participating. At