9 articles in this selection

2009/08/18

Discussion of sentiment analysis, which is the extraction of indicators of a writer's (or speaker's) opinions and emotional reactions (e.g., about a product feature or brand).

2009/06/30

Collective Intelligence in Action is a hands-on guidebook for implementing collective-intelligence concepts using Java. It is the first Java-based book to emphasize the underlying algorithms and technical implementation of vital data gathering and mining techniques like analyzing trends, discovering relationships, and making predictions. It provides a pragmatic approach to personalization by combining content-based analysis with collaborative approaches....

2009/06/30

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

2009/06/22

Slides from a presentation by Seth Grimes on Text Mining and the Semantic Web.

2009/06/19

Text Analysis Info is a free information source for information that deals with the analysis of content of human communication, mostly but not limited to text. Several programs support the coding of different sources of human communication like audio, video, or chatroom files....

2009/06/19

You're reading this article because you're actively interested in text analytics technology and market trends. Whether you're a solutions provider or consumer, you want to be sure you've invested your time and financial resources wisely.

2009/06/19

Open source is a great choice for many text analytics users, especially folks who have programming skills, who need custom capabilities or who are trying to get a feel for possibilities before committing themselves. Excellent options are available for all these users. Tools such as Gate, NLTK, R and RapidMiner share the low cost, power, flexibility and community that have driven adoption of open-source software by individual users and enterprises alike. RapidMiner even combines text processing with business intelligence (BI) and visualization functions....

2009/06/16

Visualizations graphically represent information. As I related in connection to my image gallery, "See Connections with Visualization," "Building on the foundation of basic charting, data graphics and dashboard displays, the growing palate of visualization makes analyses more accessible and understandable to a general business audience -- as well as to seasoned BI professionals." Yet visualizations can be no better than the information and analyses that feed them. Let's use Wordle, an excellent "toy," to explore the trade-off between easy-to-use, attractive visualization for the masses and true, deep sense-making. Factoring in semantic considerations discussed over 50 years ago, it is unfortunately clear that Wordle images miss meaning....

2008/03/20

Few people call themselves “consumers.” Consumers buy or use a product, service or solution. Period. The word connotes a one-way relationship between seller and buyer that fits poorly in today’s connected marketplace. “Customers,” however, do fa...