Text Analytics – Two Worlds Collide

About a month ago, I was telling someone a story about my morning jog. I described what I do as “ambulating”. She looked at me strangely and asked if I worked in the medical field because no one uses the word “ambulate” in everyday language. I laughed and said, “no.” [...]

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Uncovering opportunities and risks in social media, call center logs, customer surveys

~ Contributed by Mary Grace Crissey ~ Today our official press release hit the business wire! In this announcement we launched four new product pages featuring our offerings that sprouted from the power and expertise of the Teragram technologies acquired in 2008. I encourage you to take some time to [...]

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Dear Valentine, Wondering What's New with SAS Text Analytics?

~ Contributed by Mary Grace Crissey ~ =Whew! What a jam packed 4th quarter, holiday season, and fast paced New Year start we’ve had at SAS. Lots has happened since our last blog post in November, with the big news hitting the blog-o-sphere Feb 10th by Waynette Tubbs when she [...]

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Text Analytics for Ye of Little Faith

~ Contributed by Manya Mayes ~ While at a customer site last week, I presented our text analytics capabilities (text mining, content categorization, sentiment and crawling). Before the meeting proper, one attendee admitted that he wasn’t a text analytics believer. I guess he was warning me – not to wave [...]

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My wisdom (and lack thereof)

I just wanted to quickly introduce myself as the SAS R&D manager for SAS Text Miner. With my research-oriented background, I will be posting distinctly different types of blog entries than you will see from Manya, Barry and Mary. I will be looking at detailed technical approaches and algorithms being [...]

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