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Dictionary of Terms for Language Resources and Language Technology Infrastructures

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language resources and technology infrastructure concept > operation > text and data mining > knowledge discovery

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knowledge discovery  

Definition

  • the task/process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns that can be considered knowledge about the data

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  • KD
  • KDD
  • knowledge discovery in databases

Note

  • Generally, knowledge discovery / data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information - information that can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both. Data mining software is one of a number of analytical tools for analyzing data. It allows users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it, and summarize the relationships identified. Technically, data mining is the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large relational databases.

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http://w3id.org/clarin_el_dictionary/knowledgeDiscovery

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