# Text mining Text mining is “the discovery by computer of new, previously unknown information, by automatically extracting information from different written resources.” ([Text mining - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_mining#cite_note-2))([Marti Hearst: What Is Text Mining?](http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/text-mining.html)) Overlaps with [[Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Group]] when the text in question is part of a database [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Text+mining) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Text+mining)