I didn't know whether it was appropriate to do an announcement for a
commercial product on this list but since it is closely related to the
analysis of text corpora, I thought it would be of interest for members of
the list. You will find below the press release that was made last week.
Normand Peladeau
Provalis Research
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Montreal - June 8, 2006. Provalis Research is pleased to announce the
release of WordStat 5, a content analysis and text-mining tool offering new
features that dramatically improve the flexibility of processes for text
categorization and document classification and that enhance support for
knowledge-discovery tasks. WordStat 5 delivers improved performances and
more than 40 new features, including:
* Rule-based codification of terms using Boolean (AND, OR, NOT) and
proximity (NEAR, BEFORE, AFTER)operators.
* Ability to define external text preprocessing modules.
* Automatic document classification using Naive Bayes and k-Nearest
Neighbor methods.
* Powerful text retrieval features that are fully integrated within
tables and visualization tools.
* A vocabulary extractor for identification of technical terms, product
names and company names.
* A feature to store normative frequency data to disk and to compare
observed frequencies to saved norms.
* New clustering options such as second-order proximity and
probabilistic co-occurrence measures.
QDA Miner users will appreciate the new capability to perform, directly
from within WordStat, autocoding based on a powerful keyword retrieval
feature. The most advanced users will also appreciate the ability to
define disambiguation rules.
Provalis Research also announces plans for the future release of a software
developer's kit (SDK) for the integration of WordStat categorization and
classification technologies into applications, databases or document
management systems.
For more information on all the new features introduced in Version 5 or on
related products, or to download a free fully functional version of
WordStat, visit the new Provalis Research’s web site at:
<http://www.provalisresearch.com/>http://www.provalisresearch.com
Founded in 1989, Provalis Research provides a family of software systems
that is flexible, easy to use and offers an unsurpassed integration of
statistical analysis, qualitative data analysis, content analysis and text
mining.
Normand Péladeau
Provalis Research
www.provalisresearch.com
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