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The Text Frontier - Text mining, voice mining and unstructured data analysis

Terminology Matters in Text Analytics

After recently listening to another text analytics vendor talk about how they describe what they do, I couldn’t hold off on saying this any longer: Words, especially in the field of text – matter.

SAS has been offering Text Mining, one aspect of SAS Text Analytics since 2002. However, with the popularity of social media spawning a swath of new “text mining” vendors, the true definition of mining has become muddled.

Text Analytics is, literally, the analysis of text.

Text Mining is one method to analyze text. There are other methods too. Which one, or which combination of methods, and the order in which you choose to use them, depends on your specific needs.

The most critical aspect of text mining that distinguishes it from all other types of text analysis is that, as with numeric data mining, it is used to find previously unknown information.

Some suggest text mining is about identifying words and phrases within a text collection. Actually, this is extraction and search – and could maybe even be considered discovery. However in each of these – extraction, search or discovery – you already know what you are looking for, you just aren’t sure where it is. This is a location issue. It is not mining for previously unknown information.

Others say text mining is about visually displaying words and phrases within text, sometimes in the form of a word cloud, other times highlighting phrases in a document. No, this is visual business intelligence. You already know the words/phrases you are looking for, simply color coding where they are in text is not mining.

When you don’t know what to look for, as is the case with mining data, you can’t find it – visually, or otherwise. You first need to learn what is there.

Text mining is how you do that. It finds things you don’t already know. Text mining discovers (literally) words and topics for you.

Text mining is great for discovering what key topics are in a collection of documents, call center transcripts, patient records, claim submissions, and social network conversations. Text mining can be used prior to a sentiment analysis – if you don’t already know what you want to evaluate sentiment on. Text mining can also be used prior to content categorization – to learn the topics contained in the training set, and to define the initial taxonomy based on what you uncover.

Text mining can also be used to represent text data numerically, so you can then mine, apply forecasts or other kinds of predictive analysis to both your text and your structured data together.

It is confusing when the same words are used to describe different things – and it can make it even harder to know where to start. If you’re just starting to research these topics, I hope this has helped clarify some of the terms.

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Fear of flying or Aerophobia is a condition that can cause serious effects both physically and emotionally to any one. This is one of the most common phobias people should be aware of. Being scared to ride an airplane is not a simple problem. In most cases, this fear is a result of underlying conditions that needs to be treated. If you have Aerophobia, here are some things you have to know about how to overcome fear of flying.

Learn the Symptoms
This fear can manifest in numerous ways. To find the best treatment for your condition, you must know the common symptoms you may feel when experiencing an anxiety attack because of the object of your fear. The symptoms you will experience may vary. Sometimes you will experience a symptom you did not experience from your previous episode.
An anxiety attack that stems from phobia may have the following symptoms.
- Stomachache or that butterfly feeling in your stomach.
- headache
- Dizziness
- Nausea
- Sweaty hands
- Difficulty breathing
- Restlessness
An episode can happen anytime and anywhere especially if exposure to the object of fear is imminent. Sometimes, people even experience a panic attack just by thinking of their fears.


How to Overcome Fear of Flying
There are many tips about how to overcome phobias. Some of these tips are to take sedatives before your flight and drink relaxing drinks like champagne during the flight. While these methods may work to relieve your fears, these are just temporary methods of getting rid of your phobia. You will be still be afraid of flying.
If you never want to experience a panic attack because of your phobia again, you have to find a treatment that will help you permanently get rid of your fear. There are numerous options you can take to win over this condition.

Medication therapy works best with psychotherapy but these therapies are effective on their own. With medication therapy, your doctor would prescribe drugs that can help lessen the frequency of your attacks. Psychotherapy works best for phobias as in this type of treatment, you are presented with several things you can actually do to not be scared anymore. Exposure therapy is a technique used to help you conquer your phobia. In this method, you will gradually be exposed to your phobia in controlled situations until you are not scared anymore. You will learn how to overcome fear of flying by braving the object of your phobia.

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