Text Analytics perspective

The Text Analytics perspective provides the interface from which you create and work with Text Analytics projects.

From the Text Analytics perspective, you can add unstructured texts to a project and extract data analytically. The Text Analytics feature applies data mining and extraction techniques against unstructured text documents by using rules-based knowledge engine.

Opening the Text Analytics perspective

To open Text Analytics perspective, select Window > Open perspective > Other > Text Analytics.

Text Analytics perspective views

The Text Analytics perspective consists of the text viewer in the editor area and several views, which are defined below:

  • Highlighter

    This view displays the text with the highlighted word selected in the Word Map view.

    Use this view to scroll the text with the highlighted word and find its textual context.

  • Sources Explorer

    This view displays the tree structure of the files, belonging to the projects.

    Use this view to add folders to or delete folders from a project and open word matches in the Highlighter view.

  • Text Analytics Explorer

    This view displays the lists of Text Analytics and Simple Text Analytics projects that can be run to analyze the specified documents.

    You use this view to manage a project.

  • Entities Explorer

    If you work with Text Analytics projects, this view displays the tree structure of the entities that are found based on knowledge base rules.

    If you work with Simple Text Analytics projects, this view displays the following tree branches:

    • Predefined dictionaries. This branch lists the built-in dictionaries if you decide to use them for text analysis process.
    • User dictionaries. This branch lists your own dictionaries that you specify in the New Dictionary wizard.

    Use this view to select the necessary nodes and display the appropriate analysis results in the Word Map view.

  • Word Map

    This view displays the text analysis results in the form of a word cloud.

    The level of importance of each word is indicated by font size.

    Use this view to select a necessary word and find it in the textual context in the Highlighter view or to export the results of the analysis to a file or a database.