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of the business-­use case, then it is hard Big Data: Structured and Unstructured  •  267 TABLE 15.1b Technology Platforms and Vendors Platforms Applications Technology Sources NLP Solution Vendors NLU solutions for various industries that use a variety of algorithms and methods in order to achieve performance, scalability and results Applications: • Social Network Mining • Open-­Source Information Analyses • Blog, Website, and News Analyses • Market Intelligence • Sentiment Analysis • Social Opinion Mining • Trends Analyses • Continuous News Monitoring • Website Monitoring • Web Scraping Keyword and key phrase extraction templates using word lists or thesauri Applications: • Web Scraping • Key Term Extraction • Key Phrase Watch List Monitors Attensity: http://www.attensity.com Autonomy: http://www.autonomy.com/ BBN: http://www.bbn com/­technology/­knowledge/­semantic_ web_applications Bitext: http://www.bitext.com/ Brainware: http://www.brainware.com/ Chilliad: http://www.chiliad.com ClearForest: http://www.clearforest com/ Lextek International: http://www lextek.com/ LXA Lexalytics: http://www.lexalytics com/ NetOwl: http://www.netowl.com/ SAS: http://www.sas.com/­text-­ analytics/text-­miner/­index.htm Lingpipe: http://alias-­i.com/­lingpipe/ Topic Mapper: http://www.ai-­one.com/ NLP Template-­ Based Sytems Carrot: http://project.carrot2.org/ Kea: http://www.nzdl.org/­Kea/ Sematext: http://sematext.com/­ products/key-­phrase-­extractor/­index html Maui: http://code.google.com/­p/ maui-­indexer/ Keyphrase Extractor: http://smile.deri ie/­projects/­keyphrase-­extraction to beat a good set of optimized commercial software developer toolkits (SDKs) and/­or open-­source technologies for customized programming of an application or solution (Table 15.1c) Open-­source tools are improving, and IBM’s Watson used many open-­source components While we have provided a broad-­strokes overview, there are many more companies and specialty component technologies on the market Some, like the intelligent agent–­based approaches like Connotate™, already have an early and strong lead with this very promising approach for scalable and distributed natural language processing 268  •  Big Data and Business Analytics TABLE 15.1c Technology Platforms and Vendors Platforms Applications Technology Sources NLP Toolkits These vendors provide all the algorithms in the form of specific language application programming toolkits Applications: • Medical Data Mining • Healthcare Records Analyses • Financial News Analyses • Extraction and Loading of Unstructured Text Into Databases • Customer Help and Support Systems NLP Open-­ Source Tools This is the classic build-­versus-­buy scenario An Internet search resulted in many tool suites, and this is simply a sampling, not representative of the total available Wikipedia list of open-­source NLP tools: http://en.wikipedia org/­wiki/­List of natural_language_ processing_toolkits Cognition: http://www.cognition.com/ Connexor: http://www.connexor.com/ Digital Reasoning: http://www digitalreasoning.com/­solutions/ Expert System: http://www.expertsystem net/ Extractiv: http://extractiv.com/ IBM: http://www.ibm.com/ developerworks/data/­downloads/­uima/ Ling-­Join: http://en.lingjoin.com/­product/­ ljparser.html Lingway: http://www.lingway.com/ Q-­go: http://www.q-­go.nl/ SAP: http://www.sap.com/­solutions/­ sapbusinessobjects/­in dex.epx Teragram: http://www.teragram.com/­oem/ Temis: http://www.temis.com Vantage Linguistics: http://www vantagelinguistics.com/ Xerox: http://www.xrce.xerox com/­Research-­Development/­Document-­ Content-­Laboratory Stanford NLP–­Stanford University (an Extensive tool suite, GPL): http://nlp stanford.edu/­software/­index.shtml Balie—Baseline Information Extraction (University of Ottawa, GNU GPL): http:// balie.sourceforge.net/ FreeLing (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, GNU LGPL): http://nlp.lsi.upc edu/­freeling/ Gate—General Architecture For Language Engineering (Java, University of Sheffield, LGPL): http://gate.ac.uk/ MALLET—Machine Learning for Language Toolkit (Java—University of Massachusetts—Common Public License): http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/ NLTK—Natural Language Tool Kit: http:// nltk.org/ Ellogon—Visual NLP (C++, LGPL): http:// www.ellogon.org/ Business & Management “The chapters in this volume offer useful case studies, technical roadmaps, lessons learned, and a few prescriptions to ‘do this, avoid that.’” —From the Foreword by Joe LaCugna, PhD, Enterprise Analytics and Business Intelligence, Starbucks Coffee Company With the growing barrage of “big data,” it becomes vitally important for organizations to make sense of this data and information in a timely and effective way That’s where analytics come into play Research shows that organizations that use business analytics to guide their decision making are more productive and experience higher returns on equity Big Data and Business Analytics helps you quickly grasp the trends and techniques 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