Introduction to Text Mining in Big Data Analytics Minitrack

As a contribution to the HICSS 50 Anniversary Conference, we proposed a new mini-track on Text Mining in Big Data Analytics. This mini-track builds on the successful HICSS Workshop on Text Mining and recognizes the growing importance of unstructured text as a data source for descriptive and predictive analytics in research on collaboration systems and technologies. In this initial iteration of the mini-track, we have accepted three papers that cover conceptual issues, methodological approaches to social media, and the development of categorization models and dictionaries useful in a corporate context. The minitrack highlights the potential of an interdisciplinary research community within the HICSS collaboration systems and technologies track.