Introduction to the Minitrack on Text Analytics
Normand Péladeau, Michael J. Hine, Victoria Yoon, Derrick L. Cogburn · Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2020
Global collaboration systems, social media platforms, and information systems of all types, generate voluminous unstructured textual data.Genres of these data include system logs, email archives, websites, blog posts, meeting transcripts, speeches, annual reports, published material, and social media posts.While this quantity, quality, and diversity of data is a researcher's dream, for many analysts, this unstructured data presents tremendous challenges.This is especially for researchers limited to traditional qualitative methods.Computational text mining and big data analytics is an increasingly important technique for an interdisciplinary group of scholars, practitioners, government officials, and international organizations.These techniques are being used by a wide range of interdisciplinary researchers, represented in part by the papers in this year's Text Analytics minitrack.