We present a text mining method called CORDER [4] which discovers social networks from an organization’s documents. CORDER finds relations between a target named entity and other named entities which occur with it. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.6 Learning – knowledge acquisition; I.2.7 Natural Language Processing – text analysis. General Terms Algorithms. Keywords Relation discovery, clustering, named entity recognition. 							
						
							
					 															
					Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre L. Gonçalves, Victor