Use of Web resources for conceptual classification

The mass of textual information available, particularly on the Web, requires automatic processing for relevant data analysis. This is particularly useful for uncovering strategic information to anticipate and make decisions about socio-economic environments. The term "technology watch" is used to study the evolution of technical and scientific data (scientific articles, technological patents, etc.). A growing area of intelligence is business intelligence. This involves researching, processing and disseminating information that is useful to the company. Business intelligence includes, in particular, competitive and market intelligence. All of these monitoring methods applied to textual data make use of the NLP (automatic language processing) and text mining systems described here. To make these tools more effective, the use of domain knowledge such as conceptual classifications is essential. In particular, we'll be looking at how Web resources can help in the automatic or semi-automatic construction of conceptual classifications.