Knowledge Mining: A Quantitative Synthesis of Research Results and Findings -- An Evidential Approach to Classification Combination for Text Categorisation -- Visualization Techniques for Non Symmetrical Relations -- Understanding Text Mining: A Pragmatic Approach -- Novel Approaches to Unsupervised Clustering Through k-Windows Algorithm -- Semiometric Approach, Qualitative Research and Text Mining Techniques for Modelling the Material Culture of Happiness -- Semantic Distances for Sets of Senses and Applications in Word Sense Disambiguation -- A Strategic Roadmap for Text Mining -- Text Mining Applied to Multilingual Corpora -- Content Annotation for the Semantic Web -- An Open Platform for Collecting Domain Specific Web Pages and Extracting Information from Them -- Extraction of the Useful Words from a Decisional Corpus. Contribution of Correspondence Analysis -- Collective SME Approach to Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence: The Role of Intermediate Centers -- New Challenges and Roles of Metadata in Text/Data Mining in Statistics -- Using Text Mining in Official Statistics -- Combining Text Mining and Information Retrieval Techniques for Enhanced Access to Statistical Data on the Web: A Preliminary Report -- Comparative Study of Text Mining Tools -- Some Industrial Applications of Text Mining -- Using Text Mining Tools for Event Data Analysis -- Terminology Extraction: An Analysis of Linguistic and Statistical Approaches -- Analysis of Biotechnology Patents.

Text mining is an exciting application field and an area of scientific research that is currently under rapid development. It uses techniques from well-established scientific fields (e.g. data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, case-based reasoning, statistics and knowledge management) in an effort to help people gain insight, understand and interpret large quantities of (usually) semi-structured and unstructured data. Despite the advances made during the last few years, many issues remain unresolved. Knowledge Mining draws upon many of the key concepts of knowledge management, data mining and knowledge discovery, meta-analysis and data visualization. Within the context of scientific research, knowledge mining is principally concerned with the quantitative synthesis and visualization of research results and findings. The book presents results from the application of knowledge mining techniques in various sector of the academic and indystrial research. The results are increased scientific understanding along with improvements in research quality and value. Knowledge mining products can be used to highlight research opportunities, assist with the presentation of "best" scientific evidence, facilitate research portfolio management, as well as, facilitate policy setting and decision making.