摘要 |
A data mining apparatus and method are provided. The method operates by receiving a keyword list, compiling the keyword list into a finite state machine (FSM), performing data mining on documents in a document repository using a scanner, wherein the scanner uses the FSM to produce a match list comprising information about locations of the keywords in the documents, and processing the match list to produce a grid document comprising information about co-occurrences of keywords from the list in the documents. The apparatus uses a compiler, a scanner, and a builder to implement the method. |