Discours de presse et veille stratégique d'événements Approche textométrique et extraction d'informations pour la fouille de textes
Macmurray Erin · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2012
This research demonstrates two methods of text mining for strategic monitoring purposes: information extraction and Textometry. In strategic monitoring, text mining is used to automatically obtain information on the activities of corporations. For this objective, information extraction identifies and labels units of information, named entities (companies, places, people), which then constitute entry points for the analysis of economic activities or events. These include mergers, bankruptcies, partnerships, etc., involving corresponding corporations. A Textometric method, however, uses several statistical models to study the distribution of words in large corpora, with the goal of shedding light on significant characteristics of the textual data. In this research, Textometry, an approach traditionally considered incompatible with information extraction methods, is applied to the same corpus as an information extraction procedure in order to obtain information on economic events. Several textometric analyses (characteristic elements, co-occurrences) are examined on a corpus of online news feeds. The results are then compared to those produced by the information extraction procedure. Both approaches contribute differently to processing textual data, producing complementary analyses of the corpus. Following the comparison, this research presents the advantages for these two text mining methods in strategic monitoring of current events.