What Are Training Sets? Text analytics and auto-categorization software doesn’t simply work out of the box. It requires attention and training. It is possible to install a taxonomy-based auto-categorizer and...
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Getting Started Getting started in text analytics can be challenging. The amount of unstructured content in most organizations is overwhelming and usually poorly organized and understood. Attempting to analyze all...
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Special Characters I grew up in central Michigan. When I moved to the Southeast, I learned the word “character” had a very special meaning when applied to people. Someone described...
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What Is a Homograph? What is a synonym for thesaurus? You may have heard this question floating around as a social media meme or at a conference for taxonomists. Interestingly,...
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Text Analytics Forum This year’s Text Analytics Forum was one of five conferences at the 2018 KMWorld in Washington, D.C. Over the course of two days, a wide variety of...
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Bias in the Machine Let’s say you upload a photo of yourself and the software automatically tags your face as a gorilla. Your first reaction might be you find this...
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Unstructured Data There’s much written about unstructured data and how it is notoriously over-generated and underutilized. What is unstructured data? Wikipedia provides the following definition: Unstructured data (or unstructured information)...
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Voice of the Customer In a previous blog, Text Analytics Use Cases – The Unknowns, I wrote about the more general use cases in which text analytics can be used...
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Ahren E. Lehnert joined the Synaptica team a year ago to lead on Text Analytics Solutions. With 15 years’ experience in taxonomy management, he ensures our text analytic solutions work…
Text Analytics & Search Text analytics processes and outputs can be difficult to imagine when discussed rather than shown. Just how does one put text analytics into practice and how...
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