Means to achieve precision in text
Textual information - knowledge - complements pure data-oriented searches as BLAST [Liu & Altman]
Reduce redundancy
- omit similar results from alternate sources
reports, workshop papers, journals, books
Reduce false positives
- recognize contextual domains *
- the same word refers to different object types
nail (carpentry, anatomy), miter (carpentry, religion)
Abstract findings to higher levels
- Linguistic processing based on customer model
medical case studies have similar formats