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In many fields of science, IT applications and business environments successfully evolved systems to receive vast amount of electronic data and information. Due to increasing electronic data and information, most recent researches have tried to find a solution to resolve the crisis of information overload. These solutions include a combination of techniques of data mining, machine learning, natural language processing and information retrieval, information extraction, and knowledge management. A great challenge is how to exploit those information and knowledge resources and turn them into useful knowledge available to concerned people. The value of knowledge increases when people can share and capitalize on it. Thus, approaches that can help researchers to benefit from existing hidden knowledge are needed. For this, tools that can analyze, extract and explore relevant and useful information with relations are required. So, the main contribution of this paper is to integrate the technology of XML with text analysis for introducing an efficient concept-based structure model, where this model can represent the text in a form that can be easily understood, shared, managed and mined. This paper describes an efficient object oriented text analysis (OOTA) approach by generating an object oriented model that transforms unstructured text to a specific structured form and stored in XML format. The experimental results show that this approach has a good promotion on results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resources like ontologies are used in a number of applications, including natural language processing, information retrieval(especially from the Internet). Different methods have been proposed to build such resources. This paper proposes a new method to extract information from the Web to build a taxonomy of terms and Web resources for a given domain. Firstly, a (CHIR) method is used to identify candidat terms. Then a similarity (SIM) measure is introduced to select relevant concepts to build the ontology. Our new algorithm, called (CHIRSIM), is easy to implement and can be efficiently integrated into an information retrieval system to help improve the retrieval performance. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can effectively and efficiently construct a cancer domain ontology from unstructured text documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Web is making possible many advanced text-mining applications, such as news summarization, essay grading, question answering, semantic search and structured queries on corpora of Web documents. For many of such applications, statistical text-mining techniques are of limited effectiveness since they do not utilize the morphological structure of the text. On the other hand, many approaches use NLP-based techniques that parse the text into parse trees, and then use patterns to mine and analyze parse trees which are often unnecessarily complex. To reduce this complexity and ease the entire process of text mining, we propose a weighted-graph representation of text, called TextGraphs, which captures the grammatical and semantic relations between words and terms in the text. TextGraphs are generated using a new text mining framework which is the main focus of this paper. Our framework, SemScape, uses a statistical parser to generate few of the most probable parse trees for each sentence and employs a novel two-step pattern-based technique to extract from parse trees candidate terms and their grammatical relations. Moreover, SemScape resolves coreferences by a novel technique, generates domain-specific TextGraphs by consulting ontologies, and provides a SPARQL-like query language and an optimized engine for semantically querying and mining TextGraphs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]