Text Mining and Regular Expressions

I’ve been spending quite a lot of time in the bowels of a text mining project recently, mostly in the text/concept extraction phase. We’re using the SPSS Text Mining tool for the work so far. (As a quick aside, the text mining book I’ve enjoyed reading the most in recent months is the Weiss, Indurkhya, Zhang, and Damerau)The most difficult part of the project has been that all of the text is