Making correct decisions often
requires analyzing large volumes of textual information. Researchers, analysts,
magazine editors, venture capitalists, lawyers, help desk specialists, and even
students are faced by various text analysis tasks. Huge piles of information
accumulate in numerous text repositories held at news agencies, libraries,
corporations, individual PCs, and the Web. The amount of stored information
proliferates at a disastrous rate, and the human eyes and brain are increasingly
unable to meet the challenges of this growth. Mankind is searching for
intelligent electronic assistants to help with text analysis projects.