📘 UNIT 1 – INTRODUCTION TO TEXT MINING 1.1 Introduction to Text Mining Text is one of the richest sources of information created by humans. However, raw text is unstructured , meaning it does not follow a rigid data model like databases do. As a result, computers cannot directly analyze it unless it is cleaned, transformed, structured, and interpreted . Text Mining is defined as: “The process of transforming unstructured text into structured data to discover patterns, insig