Foreword to document warehousing and text mining book
Since the dawn of the mankind people stored their knowledge in the form of textual documents. A rediscovery of ancient Egyptian civilization began in 1799, when soldiers of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army, while constructing a fort during their Egyptian expedition, found a stone pillar with an inscription in three different languages. Two of the languages were different versions of Egyptian hieroglyphics, and the third language was Greek, providing a key in…