Download or read book Data Mining III written by A. Zanasi and published by WIT Press (UK). This book was released on 2002 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data mining brings together techniques from machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics, databases, linguistics and visualization in order to extract information from large databases. Originally principally concerned with behavioural applications, such as the understanding of customer behaviour, its scope has now been widened with the introduction of Text Mining techniques. Areas now encompassed by data mining include military, market, and competitive intelligence applications, taxonomies and internet search techniques, and knowledge management applications.