The quantity of digital text data has grown exponentially in recent years and will continue to grow. From social media posts to customer transactions, surveys, reviews, chats, emails and more, ...

Analyzing natural language in documents, email messages and other free-form text. Text mining attempts to derive meaning from the words and sentences in order to classify documents, route messages ...

Academics: prepare your computers for text-mining. Publishing giant Elsevier says that it has now made it easy for scientists to extract facts and data computationally from its more than 11 million ...

Your Editorial “The database revolution” (Nature 445, 229–230; doi:10.1038/445229b 2007) highlighted the difficulty in maintaining a stable information architecture for biology — in terms of both ...