TEXT MINING

WHAT CAN BUSINESSES LEARN FROM TEXT MINING?

1, What challenges does the increase in unstructured data present for businesses?

Text mining enables many companies to respond to their customer’s voice, and web mining enables many web search engines to facilitate collecting data that people need to be more profitable. Now, a huge amount of unstructured data is distributed by these systems. A manager is able to use this system and make an accurate decision for unprecedented cases.

2, How does text-mining improve decision-making?

Text mining system enables airlines to rapidly extract customer sentiments, preferences, and requests for example, when the airlines suffered from unprecedented levels of customer discontent in the wake of a February ice storm in 2007. Managers were concerned about their reputation degrading but there had been no means to glean their responses without text mining. Fortunately, they could make decisions and figure out a lot of measures to respond to customers’ discontent.  The reason is that text mining facilitates gleaning from many unstructured text data and compiles them. This data wouldn’t be analyzed by decision making systems like MIS and DSS because text mining is not structured data. Text mining is indispensable for decision making of unstructured data.

3,What kinds of companies are most likely to benefit from text mining software? Explain your answer.

In the past, only government and large companies tend to use text mining system but now, text mining system can be geared towards small businesses. Restaurants, hotels, supermarkets etc. are applying the system and able to make a decision as well as earn profits. Every company is able to use both structured data and unstructured data. Above all, internet search engines like Google and Yahoo are doing good business because they used AdWord and AdSence which efficient advertising system is kind of web mining.

4, In what ways could text mining potentially lead to the erosion of personal information privacy? Explain.

Nowadays, companies tend to use and manage personal information for their business. Mobile phone companies manages huge amount of privacy data as structured data. However sometimes hacker invade this data and abuse it.

According to text mining, some companies use personal information as unstructured data which is gathered from survey or questionnaires. This case is different from structured data because unstructured and mining data is not provided by customer. There is a risk to occur some unprecedented accidents.