The rising popularity of the social web and the associated change of static websites and their content towards open platforms of social sharing, collaboration, and user-generated data confront knowledge-intensive business service providers with the question what role social software plays as a...

Although we live in the age of multimedia, most information is still only available in text format. This is especially true in medical informatics. Consequently, research in text mining is an essential area of computer science. With the aid of statistic and linguistic procedures, text mining...