Knowledge Discovery in Databases

During the past couple of decades many papers have been devoted to Knowledge Discovery (KD) through information retrieval systems. Various software packages for data and text mining and related processes are available as aids to KD. Roy Davies (1989) has reviewed the literature on the relation between information retrieval and classification and KD. Don Swanson in a series of papers has argued "that some knowledge which has never been stated explicitly or even implicitly (though it may be implicit in the literature as a whole) may be readily inferred from what has already been published. Other authors too have discussed similar ideas. They have used source linking, citation indexes and related tools and methods in their studies. Application of statistical techniques especially in citation studies, bibliometric coupling, correlation, pattern recognition and other areas of informetrics and scientometrics helps in KD.