The document discusses text mining and summarizes several key points:
1) Text mining involves deriving patterns and trends from text to discover useful knowledge, but it is challenging to accurately evaluate features due to issues like polysemy and synonymy.
2) Phrase-based approaches could perform better than term-based approaches by carrying more semantic meaning, but have faced challenges due to low phrase frequencies and redundant/noisy phrases.
3) The proposed approach uses pattern mining to discover specific patterns and evaluates term weights based on pattern distributions rather than full document distributions to address misinterpretation issues and improve accuracy.