Text Mining the Multiverse

The NYT has a decent piece about text-mining, skimming large volumes of miscellaneous text to extract some sort of refined knowledge from it.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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The same article is also posted at CNET, which doesn't require registration. They also have it in a nice single-page format for those that don't like to keep hitting "next".

KDD Cup

[apsmith]

The knowledge discovery and datamining cup challenge this year was looking at the arxiv.org papers for this sort of analysis - some very interesting results. The Task 4 winnder looked at the structure of the papers as a sort of relational database and uncovered a lot of statistical patterns and metrics that could be quite useful for scientists.