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August 21, 2007
Unstructured to Structured Data
August 21, 2007
Some of you may have heard that Business Objects acquired Inxight, a text analytics software company. In short, text analytics &mdash, in this case &mdash, is the ability to scan through unstructured text, perhaps a whole book, and parse the inherent facts, entities, and actions into a series of structured records. Yes, before the experts start E-mailing me, there is little true unstructured text. A newspaper article, for example, has substantial structure (title, paragraphs, sentences, context, diction, etc.) that the human mind uses to interpret what is said. However, the data is not parsed out into nice discrete database fields that we can search on, analyze, and otherwise manipulate.
The possibilities are endless when you integrate a robust text analyzer with an ETL application, routing in such a way that the output of the analyzer is routed into a sophisticated data classifier, categorizer, and standardizer.
Posted by Frank Dravis at August 21, 2007 7:46 PM
