"[This book] is a pivotal reference source for the latest academic research on embedding and associating semantics with multimedia information to improve data retrieval techniques. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as automation, knowledge discovery, and social networking, this book...

In a context of intensification of international trade and travels, the transboundary spread of emerging human or animal pathogens represents a growing concern. One of the missions of the national veterinary services is to implement international epidemiological intelligence for a timely and...

Data Warehousing technologies and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) feature a wide range of techniques for the analysis of structured data. However, these techniques are inadequate when it comes to analyzing textual data. Indeed, classical aggregation operators have earned their spurs in the...

With the ever-increasing popularity of Location-based Services, geo-tagging a document - the process of identifying geographic locations (toponyms) in the document - has gained much attention in recent years. There have been several approaches proposed in this regard and some of them have...

The objective of this case study is to illustrate how text mining of open-ended responses and sentimental expressions (positive or negative) from student survey could yield valuable information for improving student experience management (SEM). The concept of student SEM was borrowed from the...

In diesem Buch werden die Grundlagen des Opinion Minings dargestellt sowie mögliche Ansätze, Methoden und Algorithmen aus den Bereichen Text Mining, linguistische Algorithmen, semantische Technologien und Information Retrieval aufgezeigt. Beim Opinion Mining geht es darum, textuell vorliegende...

Document clustering is a significant research issue in information retrieval and text mining. Traditionally, most clustering methods were based on the vector space model which has a few limitations such as high dimensionality and weakness in handling synonymous and polysemous problems. Latent...

Linking biomedical concepts is one of the task of the literature-based discovery and permits to identify interesting and hidden relations between seemingly unconnected concepts or entities. Most of existing approaches rely on the assumption that data and underlying literature are static or...

In this day and age, conducting a biological experiment is presumably a very expensive procedure largely owing to the highly sophisticated and expensive equipment necessitated by the process. Conceivably, being capable of isolating and focusing on a smaller set of imperative genes or gene...