Mining for Gems of Information -- From Text to Information: Document Processing and Visualization, a Text Mining Approach -- Web Mining: The Past, the Present, and Future -- Applications, Sectors and Strategies of Text Mining, a First Overall Picture -- Text Classification of News Articles with Support Vector Machines -- A Review of Web Document Clustering Approaches -- Supervised Term Weighting for Automated Text Categorization -- Machine Learning for Information Extraction in Genomics - State of the Art and Perspectives -- Processing Multilingual Collection for Text Mining Applications -- Text Mining Tools: Evaluation Methods and Criteria -- Knowledge Advantage through online Text Mining. Research Trends in Competitive Intelligence and Virtual Communities Applications -- Real Time Customer Opinion Monitoring -- Validation Techniques in Text Mining (with Application to the Processing of Open-ended Questions) -- Clickstream Analysis, Semiotic Interpretation and Semantic Text Mining for a Distance Measurement on the Hypertextual Map of an Internet-portal -- Text Mining in Official Statistic.