Constructing knowledge using exploratory text mining

Our goal is to support users who want to discover or create knowledge from a large amount of text data. Text mining is a process that extracts novel knowledge from unstructured data. A variety of applications for text mining, such as Total Environment for Text Data Mining, have been proposed. However, to the best of our knowledge, these methods are not effective at conducting text mining tasks aimed at finding novel knowledge. In this paper, we discuss characteristics of the text mining process and propose a design principle for building text mining applications based on two concepts: (1) text mining is an exploratory search task, and (2) text mining is a process for creative knowledge work.