Template Editor vs. Resource Editor

There are two main methods for working with and editing your templates, libraries, and their resources. You can work on linguistic resources in the Template Editor or the Resource Editor.

Template Editor

The Template Editor allows you to create and edit resource templates without an interactive workbench session and independent of a specific node or stream. You can use this editor to create or edit resource templates before loading them into the Text Link Analysis node and the Text Mining modeling node.

The Template Editor is accessible through the main IBM® SPSS® Modeler toolbar from the Tools > Text Analytics Template Editor menu.

Resource Editor

The Resource Editor, which is accessible within an interactive workbench session, allows you to work with the resources in the context of a specific node and dataset. When you add a Text Mining modeling node to a stream, you can load a copy of a resource template's content or a copy of a text analysis package (category sets and resources) to control how text is extracted for text mining. When you launch an interactive workbench session, in addition to creating categories, extracting text link analysis patterns, and creating category models, you can also fine-tune the resources for that session's data in the integrated Resource Editor view. See the topic Editing resources in the Resource Editor for more information.

Whenever you work on the resources in an interactive workbench session, those changes apply only to that session. If you want to save your work (resources, categories, patterns, etc.) so you can continue in a subsequent session, you must update the modeling node. See the topic Updating Modeling Nodes and Saving for more information.

If you want to save your changes back to the original template, whose contents were copied into the modeling node, so that this updated template can be loaded into other nodes, you can make a template from the resources. See the topic Making and Updating Templates for more information.

Note: If you make changes to templates or libraries and save them to a backup directory, and then upgrade your version of IBM SPSS Modeler Text Analytics, you will be given the option of importing your custom templates and libraries. The first time you run a SPSS Modeler Text Analytics stream or open the Resource Editor after an upgrade, default templates and libraries are copied to your machine. A Saved templates warning or a Saved libraries warning (or both) is displayed with a list of the templates and/or libraries that are updated as part of the product upgrade, and you are given the option of importing your custom templates and libraries from the directory in which you saved them. After clicking OK in the warning message, you can open the Manage resource templates dialog or the Manage libraries dialog at any time to choose which custom templates or libraries you want to import.