SAS® Text Miner
What is SAS Text Miner? SAS Text Miner provides a rich suite of tools for discovering and extracting knowledge from text documents. It transforms textual data into a useable, intelligible format that facilitates classifying documents, finding explicit relationships or associations between documents, clustering documents into categories and incorporating text with other structured data to enrich predictive modeling endeavors.
Why is SAS Text Miner important? SAS Text Miner is the industry’s first mining solution that tightly integrates text-based information with structured data to provide complete views for improved analyses and decision making.
For whom is SAS Text Miner designed? It is designed for anyone who must look through large volumes of text to extract information, ideas and trends.
Key benefits
- Reduced time-to-decisions and a more accurate organizational view. By combining structured data and unstructured text, and automating the process of analyzing the data, SAS Text Miner helps organizations gain meaningful insights that successfully drive overall business direction.
- Improved organizational performance. While most software vendors offer classification of one text field into a single class, SAS Text Miner enables the classification of multiple structured and unstructured fields. It improves your organization's performance by distilling information from multiple business units into a format that is easy to manage and analyze.
- Recognize trends and predict business opportunities. Analysis of information such as customer letters and call center notes may provide valuable information about customer dissatisfaction or insights into service and product needs. SAS Text Miner provides a full range of predictive modeling tools that can unearth opportunities for timely exploitation.
Key Features
- Access a wide variety of document formats and languages. SAS Text Miner can read text stored in a variety of document formats, such as PDF, ASCII, HTML, Lotus, Microsoft Word and WordPerfect. Customized routines and dictionaries numerous languages are also included.
- A distinctive, integrated interface for analyzing text (unstructured data) in conjunction with multiple related database (structured) fields. The graphical user interface significantly reduces text-mining time for both business analysts and statisticians.
- Sophisticated text parsing capabilities automatically extract terms or phrases from large text collections, while stemming terms to root form based on parts of speech and finding phrases of interest such as abbreviations, country names, organization names and other specific entities.
- Transform data into a compact, information-rich structure. SAS Text Miner distills key concepts contained in large document collections and analyzes relationships between isolated terms or phrases and documents. This reduces the complexity of text and structures it for use in data exploration, clustering and predictive modeling.
- An interactive results browser enables analysts to interactively explore concepts and relationships between documents and dynamically make modifications to further tailor analyses.
- Full integration with SAS Enterprise Miner™ software provides a full range of mining tools for text and related structured data, including prediction, classification and clustering, as well as the full range of data access and data preprocessing tools.
For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the SAS Text Miner fact sheet. 
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