An Analysis on Text Mining Techniques for Smart Literature Review

With the development of web technologies, databases and social networks etc. a large amount of text data is generated each day. Mostof the data on the internet is in unstructured form. This unstructured data can provide valuable knowledge. For getting valuable knowledge from text data text mining techniques are used widely. As each day large amounts of research papers were published in journals and conferences. These research papers are very valuable for future research and investigations. These research papers act as a source for future innovations. Researchers write review papers to give updated knowledge about the specific field. But review papers used a limited number of papers and involved manually reading each paper. Due to the large volume of research papers published each day, it is not possible for the researchers to go through each paper to find the updated knowledge about their field of interest. To automate the literature analysis process different techniques of text mining were used. This paper provides a review of text mining techniques used in automatic literature analysis. We collected papers in which previous literature is used with text mining techniques to get valuable knowledge. This review paper presented an overview of text mining techniques, their evaluation criteria, their limitations and challenges for exploring literature to find research trends.