LING052

"Text analytics" survey

(due 3/5/2014)

Take a quick look at this (somewhat random and incomplete) sampling of companies now offering one variety or another of "text analytics" software and/or services:

accelrys
Angoss
BBN Web Monitoring
DayWatch
DiscoverText
IBM Watson
IBM jStart
IBM SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys
Idibon
Luminoso
Lexalytics
NICE
OdinText
Provalis
Relativity
rapidminer
saplo
SAS Text Miner
Semantria
Verint

What does "text analytics" mean, anyhow? What sorts of capabilities are involved?

For each of the organizations in the list, summarize in a couple of sentences who they are and what they do.

Pick one of the organizations and write a more detailed report. What do they (claim to) do? How do they (claim to) do it? What are the ideas behind their product(s)? What evidence is there about how well they work?