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Now Available - New Version of SAS Text Miner

SAS Text Miner 4.2, now available, delivers numerous enhancements to SAS text mining customers. SAS Text Miner 4.2 includes new node tools, a new server platform, and additional supported languages.

The three new SAS Text Miner nodes are the Text Parsing node, the Text Filter node, and the Text Topic node.

  • The Text Parsing node enables you to parse a document collection in order to quantify information about the terms that are contained therein. The Text Parsing node provides a standard parsing facility, and enables you to import custom entities as defined in SAS Content Categorization.
  • The Text Filter node enables you to reduce the total number of parsed terms or documents that are analyzed so that you can eliminate extraneous information from your analysis. The Text Filter node enables you to perform spell checking, do full text searches using integrated Teragram search capabilities, view and analyze results with concept linking, and conduct subsetting management of terms and documents.
  • The Text Topic node enables you to combine terms into topics or provide your own topics that you want to analyze. With the Text Topic node, you can manage topics by mining for multiple topics per document, automatically creating single and multi-word topics, editing automatically generated topics, and defining your own topics. The Interactive Topic Viewer enables you to manage your topics. Results from the Text Topic node provide charts and tables that enable you to analyze—for example—the number of documents by topics and the number of terms by topics.
SAS Text Miner 4.2 now supports the Solaris for x64 server platform.

In addition to the languages supported in previous releases (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), SAS Text Miner 4.2 also supports these languages:

  • Arabic
  • Dutch
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Swedish

Entity parsing is available for all supported languages.


Overview

SAS Text Miner provides tools that enable you to extract information from a collection of text documents and uncover the themes and concepts that are revealed therein. In addition, because you can embed SAS Text Miner nodes in a SAS Enterprise Miner process flow diagram, you can combine quantitative variables with unstructured text in the mining process and thereby incorporate text mining with other traditional data mining techniques.

SAS Text Miner is a component of the SAS software offering, SAS Enterprise Miner. SAS Enterprise Miner is required software and must be installed on the same machine.

Visit our general product information page on www.sas.com for more information.



System Requirements at a Glance

SAS Text Miner runs in Microsoft Windows and UNIX operating environments. The Enterprise Miner client runs only in Windows environments.

SAS Text Miner is a component of the SAS software offering, SAS Enterprise Miner Server. SAS Enterprise Miner is required software and must be installed on the same machine.

For details about the operating environments that SAS supports, see Supported Operating Systems.

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