Abstract

As text semantics has an important role in text meaning, the term semantics has been seen in a vast sort of text mining studies. However, there is a lack of studies that integrate the different research branches and summarize the developed works. This paper reports a systematic mapping about semantics-concerned text mining studies. This systematic mapping study followed a well-defined protocol. Its results were based on 1693 studies, selected among 3984 studies identified in five digital libraries. The produced mapping gives a general summary of the subject, points some areas that lacks the development of primary or secondary studies, and can be a guide for researchers working with semantics-concerned text mining. It demonstrates that, although several studies have been developed, the processing of semantic aspects in text mining remains an open research problem.

Highlights

  • Text mining techniques have become essential for supporting knowledge discovery as the volume and variety of digital text documents have increased, either in social networks and the Web or inside organizations

  • This paper aims to point some directions to the reader who is interested in semantics-concerned text mining researches

  • This paper reports a systematic mapping study conducted to get a general overview of how text semantics is being treated in text mining studies

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Introduction

Text mining techniques have become essential for supporting knowledge discovery as the volume and variety of digital text documents have increased, either in social networks and the Web or inside organizations. As well as text mining applications, are varied. There is not a consensual definition established among the different research communities [1], text mining can be seen as a set of methods used to analyze unstructured data and discover patterns that were unknown beforehand [2]. The process starts with the specification of its objectives in the problem identification step. The specifications stated in the problem identification step will guide the steps of the text mining process, which can be executed in cycles of data preparation

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