User:Manetta/i-could-have-written-that/kdd-applications

knowledge discovery in data applications

• supermarket customer behavior prediction, increasing sales & profit (Witter 2011)
• artificial insemination, increasing the chance of pregnancy (Witter 2011)
• policy windtunnels, efficiency & policy optimation --- (NRC 15-01-2016)
• vacancy websites, cv parsing & personalised recommendations

WCC, Smart Search & Match

www.wcc-group.com

WCC is the world’s leading developer of advanced search and match technology. Our software enables large organizations to make optimal business decisions through better use of available data sources. WCC about-page

text mining application focus: optimizing business decision making processes

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CLiPS (Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics Research Center)

CLiPS project website CLiPS research mission
CLiPS page at the University of Antwerp

the research center of the University of Antwerp where Pattern is comming from

text mining application focus: cybersecurity, sentiment analysis and authorship detection, text understanding, language development research with young children

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text mining project	application	date	link
automatic detection of crucial information	in clinical reports	01/01/2016 - 31/12/2019	link
computational creativity	TheRiddlerBot, a twitter bot generating riddles about well-known characters	2015	link
automatic opinion detection (using commercial web-services)	analyse media coverage on political issues --- reporting on the 'sentiment' tone of news reports about the new Belgium parlement of 2011 (established after 541 days of negotiation)	01/02/2014 - 31/01/2015	link
styleometry	authorship attribution, personality prediction, gender prediction	01/10/2014 - 30/09/2018	link
connecting knowledge from different domains	investigating the learning process of language by very young children	01/01/2014 - 31/12/2017	link
Automatic Monitoring for Cyberspace Applications (AMiCA)	mine blogs, chat rooms, social networking sites, tracing harmful content, contact, or conduct (cyber-bullying, pedophilia) --- detecting risks, and sending alerts to moderators --- collecting accurate data to support providers, science and governments in decision-making processes with respect to child safety online	01/01/2013 - 31/12/2016	link
language technology development for African languages	improving language software for minority languages, like translation engines and corpus development	2006 - 2011	link
improving text-mining techniques	sentiment-analysis on suicide notes, to distinguish between fifteen emotion labels, from guilt, sorrow, and hopelessness to hopefulness and happiness --- (emotion detection, suicide prevention)	2012	link

Weka 3

Weka is a data mining application written in Java, developed at the university of Waikato, New Sealand. This is a link to Weka's project page.

description of text mining (2003): It most commonly targets text whose function is the communication of factual information or opinions, (...) “Textmining”(sometimes called “text data mining” ---[4]) defies tight definition but encompasses a wide range of activities: text summarization --- document retrieval --- document clustering --- text categorization --- language identification --- authorship ascription --- identifying phrases, phrase structures, and key phrases --- extracting “entities” such as names, dates, and abbreviations --- locating acronyms and their definitions --- filling predefined templates with extracted information --- and even learning rules from such templates[8]. (Witten ed., 2003)

text mining application focus: computer technical improvements of text-mining techniques, other applications are merely described as examples in the Weka textbook: (Witter ed., 2011).

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(text) mining project	application	date	link
Document Copy Detector	plagiarism detection	2016	link
large-scale continuous global optimisation	increase efficiency in search engines	2015	link
opinion mining	tourism product reviews	2014	link
mining on the web	ranking order op webpages in search engines (p.21) --- search query patterns for advertisment profiling --- costumer recommendations to increase sales --- user recommendations for films to make sure they come back to the website --- And then there are social networks and other personal data --- decision procedures at loan-companies through questionaires, which motivates such companies when seeing their results increase: it 'works' (p.22) --- detect intrusion by recognizing unusual patterns of operation (p.28)	2011	book
marketing and sales	(In these applications, predictions themselves are the chief interest: The structure of how decisions are made is often completely irrelevant.) to 'woo' customers back by offering special treatments --- product positioning in supermarkets after 'Market basket analysis', customers who buy beer also buy chips, --- personal discounts: Supermarkets want you to feel that although [prices are ricing], they don’t increase so much for you because the bargains offered by personalized coupons make it attractive for you to stock up on things that you wouldn’t normally have bought. --- direct marketing, focused promotions --- demographic information is correlated to product demands --- (p.26-)	2011	book
(healthcare)	increasing success rated of artificial insemination	?	?
(image recognition)	detect oil slicks from satellite images to give early warning of ecological disasters and deter illegal dumping (p.23)	2011	book
(electricity industry)	determine future demand for power as far in advance as possible (p.24)	2011	book
(technological diagnoses)	forestall failures that disrupt industrial processes (p.25)	2011	book
text mining in a digital library	enrich the library reader’s experience --- a carefully chosen set of authoritative documents in a particular topic area is far more useful to those working in the area than a huge, unfocused collection (like the Web)	2003 - 2004	link, link
improving text mining techniques	(un)supervised creation of twitter opinion/sentiment(POS/NEUT/NEG) corpus --- towards solution for text mining that are general, effective, and scalable ---	2015	link, link

World Well Being Project (WWBP)

www.wwbp.org

The WWBP is a research project developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center. The project works on techniques for measuring psychological well-being and physical health based on the analysis of language in social media. The aim of the project is described as: advancing understanding of human flourishing using language analysis. - WWBP research project website

text mining application focus: correlations between written language on social media (the possible becomes the desirable) and psychological profiles, personality characteristic like age, gender or income, and the effects on the writer's health and well-being

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(text) mining project	application	date	link
(analytics) well-being prediction	measuring life satisfaction scale ('the good life') according to Tweets and FB messages by rating the PERMA (Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment),	2016	link
(analytics) user attribute stylistic differences	correlation of linguistic Twitter style and gender, age, occupational class --- income through tweets --- occupational class of users through tweets --- the mechanics of human achievement through talent and effort	2015 - 2016	link, link, link, link
(analytics) health prediction	linguistic style at twitter as marker of cardiovascular mortality at the community --- subjective well-being, health, gender differences & personality --- personality, age, gender & mental illness	2015	link, link, link
(analytics) psychological profiles	temporal orientation (speaking about past/present/future) via Facebook, correlated with conscientiousness, age, and gender, to explore social scientific questions in association with the factors openness to experience, satisfaction with life, depression, IQ, and one's number of friends --- personality predictions trained on 66.000+ FB users, by using questionaires, social facts (as nr. of friends or political attitudes), friend's ratings to develop a quick and cheaply assessment of people's personalities --- detecting changes in degree of depression through FB --- correlating Big Five personality categories to Facebook user's text, giving a new insight in the Big Five test	2015	link, link, link, link
(analytics) religion, understanding the undescribable	understanding mystical experiences	2015	link
improving text mining techniques	unsupervised sentiment corpuses from Twitter avoiding ambiguity --- using MTers to predict user attributes from Tweets to improve MT workflows	2015	link, link

notes

A requirement common to both data and text mining is that the information extracted should be 
potentially useful. In one sense, this means actionable—capable of providing a basis for 
actions to be taken automatically. (Witter 2011, p. 386)

Automation is especially welcome in situations involving continuous monitoring, 
a job that is time consuming and exceptionally tedious for humans. (Witten ed., 2011)

Statistical tests are used to validate machine learning models 
and to evaluate machine learning algorithms. (Witten ed., 2011)

If you do come up with conclusions (e.g., red car owners being greater credit risks),
you need to attach caveats to them and back them up with arguments other than
purely statistical ones. The point is that data mining is just a tool in the whole
process. It is people who take the results, along with other knowledge, and decide
what action to apply. (Witten ed., 2011)

references

• Witten, Frank, Hall 2011 - Data Mining - Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 3rd Edition