Analysis of IT projects funded by the European Commission in 5FP

Text-Mining methods can be used to address different problems involving text documents in different formats including html-format used for Web pages and possible connections between the documents (structure of the document set). Our customer for this application was European Commision (EC). After presentations of the capability of Text-Mining methods illustrated on the previously developed prototype application for a publishing house and several discussions, we have identified the main direction: automatic analysis of the 5th FP projects using the public descriptions of the projects and a part of internal EC database for IST 5FP projects. We have developed a prototype tool for automatic gathering and analysis of publicly available EU IST project descriptions. The database was automatically built from the publicly available information on the Web and organized to enable further analysis. We have used Text …