{"id":3138,"date":"2012-08-02T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2012-08-02T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:00:17","slug":"text-analytics-leapfrogging-the-tag-cloud-for-greater-insight-to-unstructured-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/text-analytics-leapfrogging-the-tag-cloud-for-greater-insight-to-unstructured-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Analytics: Leapfrogging the Tag Cloud for Greater Insight to Unstructured Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text analytics<\/a><\/em>, also referred to as Text mining, is used in business intelligence and data analysis to identify structure and context in text data. \u00a0Text analytics uses a variety of\u00a0linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques. \u00a0Seth Grimes<\/a>, independent analyst for the analytics market,\u00a0estimates <\/a>the size of the Text Analytics market to be on the order of $1 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Text Analytics market is rapidly consolidating with numerous mergers and acquisitions over the past year. \u00a0Oracle purchased Endeca for it’s technology to mash up unstructured data from many different data sources. \u00a0HP acquired similar technology from Autonomy. \u00a0IBM picked up Vivisimo and Lexmark for their rich search features.<\/p>\n

Popularity of Big Data is driving huge interest in the area of text analytics, and that interest is causing the technology to evolve quickly. \u00a0Text analytics techniques, for example, are becoming increasingly richer and more sophisticated in the information and insight which they can provide.<\/p>\n

The ‘Tag Cloud’<\/a>, for example, is a simple text analytics technique that was popularized during the rise of Web 2.0<\/a>. \u00a0But at the recent Text Analytics Summit in Boston<\/a>, David Williams<\/a>, manager of marketing analytics and optimization for Orlando, Fla.-based Walt Disney World, announced that Tag Clouds are dead. \u00a0Williams said <\/a>that with a Tag Cloud that “You\u2019re just looking at words and you don\u2019t know the context of those words.” Instead, Williams said that a better technique is one called ‘concept linking’ and available in the Text Miner product from SAS<\/a>. \u00a0The tool allows the depth of a relationship to be visualized by using thicker lines when the links are drawn between words. \u00a0But this is just one of many tools and products for text analytics that are becoming available.<\/p>\n

Increasingly Text analytics applies semantics to derive inter-relationships between data. \u00a0 The concept of the ‘semantic web’<\/a> has been talked about for some time but has not yet been fully realized. \u00a0Part of the problem has been that there are no standards for the technology, but as interest in the area of text analytics continues, that is likely to change.<\/p>\n

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Text analytics, also referred to as Text mining, is used in business intelligence and data analysis to identify structure and context in text data. \u00a0Text analytics uses a variety of\u00a0linguistic, statistical, and machine learning techniques. \u00a0Seth Grimes, independent analyst for…<\/span><\/p>\n

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