User:Manetta/thesis/chapter-intro
i could have written that - intro
text analytics < > systemization of language
This text originates from an interest in the systemization of language that is needed for computer software to be able to 'understand' and process written language.
The aim of this text is to perceive text analytics & statistical computing from another angle: to see, sense, feel and somehow understand what 'gestures' are applied to written words to make them more 'readable' for a computer software/program.
as typography does for the human eye so to say.
i try to formulate a lot of questions that arose while working with the software, listening to presentations or video's and reading about the technology in academic papers, books and online articles.
with these questions i hope to give an insight in the particular way that these techniques are looking at language, in which fields they are applied, and with what ideologies they seem to be embraced.
questions that hopefully lift up some layers that cover the techniques, to take a sneak peak into their strength and persuasiveness.
hypothesis
The results of text mining software are not 'mined', results are constructed.