1. Introduction to TIMAN: Text Information Managemetn & Analysis
ChengXiang (“Cheng”) Zhai
Department of Computer Science
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Department of Statistics
School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2. Text data cover all kinds of topics
People
Events
Products
Services, … …
Sources:
Blogs
Microblogs
Forums
Reviews ,…
45M reviews
53M blogs
1307M posts
65M msgs/day
115M users 10M groups …

3. Humans as Subjective & Intelligent “Sensors”
Sense
Report
Real World
Sensor
Data
Weather
Thermometer
3C , 15F, …
Perceive
Express
“Human Sensor”
Locations
Geo Sensor
41°N and 120°W ….
Network Sensor
Networks

4. Unique Value of Text Data
Useful to all big data applications
Especially useful for mining knowledge about people’s behavior, attitude, and opinions
Directly express knowledge about our world: Small text data are also useful!
Data  Information  Knowledge
Text Data

5. TextScope to enhance human perception
Microscope
Telescope
Intelligent Interactive Retrieval & Text Analysis
for Task Support and Decision Making

6. TextScope in Action: intelligent interactive decision support
Predicted Values
of Real World Variables
Optimal Decision Making
Predictive
Model
Multiple
Predictors
(Features) …
Sensor 1
Sensor k …
Non-Text
Data
Text
Joint Mining of Non-Text
and Text
Real World

7. Overview of TIMAN Research
Biomedical & Healthcare
Intelligent Education Systems
Security
… …
Text-Based Prediction
General Text Mining System (MeTA)
Joint Analysis of
Text & Non-Text Data
Intelligent Interactive
Search Algorithms
Text Data Mining
Algorithms

8. Looking forward to opportunities for collaboration!
Thank You!
More information about TIMAN can be found at
Looking forward to opportunities for collaboration!

9. Additional Slides Text Mining Intelligent Task Agent Applications
Opinion analysis:
TextScope:
Text Analysis Engine:
Intelligent Task Agent
Personalization:
Game Theoretic Framework for Intelligent Information Retrieval:
Interface Computing:
Applications
Biomedical & Health Informatics (Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine patient records)
Education (Virtual Data Science Lab):
Accelerate scientific discovery (Researcher’s Workbench):