See conference video - http://www.lucidimagination.com/devzone/events/conferences/ApacheLuceneEurocon2011 Text analytics is a large and interesting subject, covering a wide range of topics. In the world of enterprise search however, the usual application of text analytics rarely ranges beyond extracting semi-structured information from the source data. As some of the more advanced concepts in text analytics, such as automatic text categorization, can be easily leveraged to bring a search installation from a search tool to a tool for discovery.