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by Steven Titch, Contributing Editor Posted on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:19:00 PM   Here's something for anyone who suffered through the grammar-school exercise of diagramming sentences and wondered, "Where will all this ever get me?" Attensity Corp.'s (Palo Alto, CA) text analytic tools work by diagramming sentences just like you did back in fifth grade. That's right, the software deconstructs text into subject, verbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases and sorts them into a relational database. Text analytics represents a leading-edge effort to slot unstructured data -- the written comments, emails, and repair notes that form a large part of the warranty reporting record -- into matrices that can be easily searched and mined for predictive analysis. Attensity has attracted customers as diverse as Whirlpool, Hill Air Force Base, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In addition to Attensity, SPSS Inc. (Chicago), ClearForest Corp. (Waltham, MA), and Teragram Corp. (Cambridge, MA) are active in this space. [Click to continue] |