Topic Map Generation Using Text Mining

Starting from text corpus analysis with linguistic and statistical analysis algorithms, an infrastructure for text mining is described which uses collocation analysis as a central tool. This text mining method may be applied to different domains as well as languages. Some examples taken form large reference databases motivate the applicability to knowledge management using declarative standards of information structuring and description. The ISO/IEC Topic Map standard is introduced as a candidate for rich metadata description of information resources and it is shown how text mining can be used for automatic topic map generation

Aiding Web Searches by Statistical Classification Tools

We describe an infrastructure for the collection and management of large amounts of text, and discuss the possibility of information extraction and visualisation from text corpora with statistical methods. The paper gives an overview of processing steps, the contents of our text databases as well as different query facilities. Our focus is on the extraction and visualisation of collocations and their usage for aiding web searches