Fast and Furious Text Mining Joel D. Martin   View Paper (PDF)   Return to December 2005, Searching and Mining Literature Digital Libraries, Volume 28, Number 4 Abstract Text mining studies in biology are often limited to thousands instead of millions of Medline records or are very slow. However, with a modified search engine, many common text mining tasks can be done rapidly. In fact, some information extraction and text categorization tasks can be achieved in seconds or minutes even across tens of gigabytes of (previously indexed) text. In this paper, we present TLM, an efficient implementation of a text analysis engine that uses a highly expressive query language. With this language, users can create queries that quickly accomplish what previously required several different custom-built systems to achieve. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery