Text Mining Resources

Some notes on open source text mining resources:

• "The Text Mining Tool Evaluation project will describe the process of text mining, identify non-proprietary software that can search blocks of text to identify reports relevant to the cancer registry, and provide information to state cancer registries regarding different tools available and a comparison of the functionality provided by each tool." Evaluation of Open Source Text Mining Tools for Cancer Surveillance (HTML version from the Google cache)
• "U-Compare is an integrated text mining/natural language processing system based on the UIMA Framework." U-Compare: share and compare tools with UIMA
• "The BioNLP Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) Component Repository provides UIMA wrappers for novel and well-known 3rd-party NLP tools used in biomedical text prosessing, such as tokenizers, parsers, named entity taggers, and tools for evaluation." BioNLP UIMA Component Respository
• "OpenNLP is an organizational center for open source projects related to natural language processing." OpenNLP
  • OpenNLP projects
  • See also OpenNLP links for other resources.
• FreeLing - written in C++ with features from tokenisation through to part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation
• NLTK - written in Python with a wide range of natural language processing features