Text Analytics v. Semantic Content Enrichment
Seth Grimes recently set the record straight regarding the terms “text analytics” and “semantic content enrichment.” Grimes starts with a few definitions of text analytics: “Text analytics is a set of software and transformational steps that discover business value in ‘unstructured’ text. (Analytics in general is a process, not just algorithms and software.) The aim is to improve automated text processing, whether for search, classification, data and opinion extraction, business intelligence or other purposes.” He adds, “Text analytics draws on data mining and visualization and also on natural-language processing (NLP). Supplement NLP with technologies that recognize patterns and extract information from images, audio, video and composites and you have content analytics.” Read more

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