Templates and Resources

IBM® SPSS® Modeler Text Analytics rapidly and accurately captures and extracts key concepts from text data. This extraction process relies heavily on linguistic resources to dictate how to extract information from text data. See the topic How extraction works for more information. You can fine-tune these resources in the Resource Editor view.

When you install the software, you also get a set of specialized resources. These shipped resources allow you to benefit from years of research and fine-tuning for specific languages and specific applications. Since the shipped resources may not always be perfectly adapted to the context of your data, you can edit these resource templates or even create and use custom libraries uniquely fine-tuned to your organization's data. These resources come in various forms and each can be used in your session. Resources can be found in the following:

  • Resource templates. Templates are made up of a set of libraries, types, and some advanced resources which together form a specialized set of resources adapted to a particular domain or context such as product opinions.
  • Text analysis packages (TAP). In addition to the resources stored in a template, TAPs also bundle together one or more specialized category sets generated using those resources so that both the categories and the resources are stored together and reusable. See the topic Using Text Analysis Packages for more information.
  • Libraries. Libraries are used as building blocks for both TAPs and templates. They can also be added individually to resources in your session. Each library is made up of several dictionaries used to define and manage types, synonyms, and exclude lists. While libraries are also delivered individually, they are prepackaged together in templates and TAPs. See the topic Working with Libraries for more information.

Note: During extraction, some compiled internal resources are also used. These compiled resources contain a large number of definitions complementing the types in the Core library. These compiled resources cannot be edited.

The Resource Editor offers access to the set of resources used to produce the extraction results (concepts, types, and patterns). There are a number of tasks you might perform in the Resource Editor and they include: