workin' in a text mine

OK so what was the point of that last post? I suppose one thing that struck me using Leximancer was that these tools are neat but (like their data mining brethren) it'll be a long time before they move beyond specialist uses into the wider world. So much depends on skilled human operation in terms of framing a problem, selecting & screening terms, and interpreting results.

What experiences have you had with these tools?

Some resources:

• A comparison of unstructured text mining tools from Virginia Uni.
• The National Centre for Text Mining in the UK.
  
• Marti Hearst & NY Times talk Text Mining.