Overview and Application of Text Data Pre-Processing Techniques for Text Mining on Health News Tweets
Gauri Ajay Chaudhary · Helix · 2018
With the huge abundance of textual data in electronic form on the internet, there is a growing need to identify and extract meaningful information and patterns from this underlying text data.While in a broader context this is Data Mining, since applied to text data, this gives rise to a specialization within data mining, called text mining.Various useful applications of text mining are clustering, classification, trends analysis etc.This paper focuses on various techniques of pre-processing the text data so that it is transformed into a form to which text mining can be applied.Various data preprocessing techniques have been applied to health news from more than 15 major health news agencies collected using Twitter API, available on UCI Machine Learning Repository and output at the end of each pre-processing step is specified.