I went this morning to a conference organized by l'Atelier in Paris on behalf of Temis, a text-mining software company.
Temis's presentation was about its software and services offering: semantic technologies for extraction, clustering and categorizing of information. It was brilliant, and Temis undoubtedly has something to say in this area, as their track record suggests.
I was however a little uneasy about their marketing strategy, for two reasons:
1- Temis said nothing about the limitations of text mining technologies in general, and theirs in particular.
2- With prices ranging from 100 to 500 KEuros for a Temis solution, the target clients are clearly the corporate staff of large companies.