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"Inxight's impressive suite of multilingual text analysis solutions made them the clear choice for a text mining development partner," said Keith Collins, senior vice president and chief technology officer for SAS. "As we serve customers around the world, the ability to offer the best text mining capabilities in multiple languages is essential to supporting our global business initiatives.^[1]

To enhance its text mining capabilities, Text Miner incorporates Inxight's LinguistX Platform, a natural language text analysis solution that automatically analyzes words, phrases and sentences from any unstructured source in multiple languages.^[1]

The technology from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Inxight, a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox that focuses on text mining, will be available in SAS Text Miner, due midyear.^[2]

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"Inxight is the best text mining development partner for us due to its advanced linguistic technology," said Keith Collins, senior vice president and chief technology officer for SAS, in a statement. Collins, in Cary, N.C tmpchng, said Inxight's products would add such capabilities as text pre-processing, concept extraction, data dictionaries and multiple language recognition to Text Miner.^[3]

"Inxight is the best text mining development partner for us due to its advanced linguistic technology," said Keith Collins , senior vice president and chief technology officer for SAS. "Inxight's products offer important functionality, such as text pre-processing, concept extraction, data dictionaries and multiple language recognition, which will significantly enhance Text Miner's capabilities for our customers worldwide."^[4]

Inxight's capabilities will enable Text Miner to access and run analysis against as many as 15 types of data files, including unstructured data sets such as e-mail, Microsoft Office applications, and PDF and HTML files. "We think that text mining has broad implications across several industries," said Wayne Thompson, product manager for Enterprise Miner at SAS in Cary, N.C. Thompson said that Text Miner is part of a broader strategy at SAS to analyze both structured and unstructured data. "We provide the analytics to do the clustering, predictive modeling, and CRM activities," he said.^[2]

• Find the n most similar items for the selected document, term or cluster. • Filter term(s) to show documents that contain them and clusters that contain those documents. With SAS Text Miner, anyone who must sift through large volumes of text to extract information, ideas and trends will be able to transform these mas- sive, largely untapped stores of data into insightful and valuable knowledge. SAS Text Miner Features Universal data access With access to numerous forms of textual data, including Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), extended ASCII Text, HTML and Microsoft Word, users can extract, transform, and load their textual data into a SAS data set for text mining.^[5]

Every day, we’re flooded with e-mails, Web pages, memos, agendas and countless other documents filled with simple words. While individuals seek to make sense of all the words that cross their paths, business analysts have had no way to use data mining techniques to detect meaningful patterns or to make predictions based on the massive volumes of text generated within their organizations and beyond. That’s why SAS, the leading provider of business intelligence, today announced the general availability of SAS® Text Miner, adding advanced text mining to the company’s market-leading data mining solution.^[6]

On May 31, 2002, SAS announced the general availability of SAS Text Miner, adding advanced text mining to the company's market-leading data mining solution.^[1]

SAS(r) Text Miner is available On May 31, 2002, SAS announced the general availability of SAS Text Miner, adding advanced text mining to the company's market-leading data mining solution.^[7]

The SAS® Intelligence Advantage With the integration of text mining into SAS’ proven Enterprise Miner solution for data mining, SAS is the first soft- ware vendor to offer a complete data mining solution for analyzing both unstructured and structured data (Figure 2).^[5]

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SAS Turns to Inxight to Go Multilingual By internetnews.com Staff January 21, 2002 Inxight Software, Inc tmpchng, a Santa Clara, Calif-based developer of software for organizing, analyzing and delivering information in multiple languages, on Monday announced a worldwide strategic text mining alliance with SAS Institute, a privately held business intelligence concern.^[8]

xSP News January 21, 2002 SAS Turns to Inxight to Go Multilingual By internetnews.com Staff Inxight Software, Inc tmpchng, a Santa Clara, Calif-based developer of software for organizing, analyzing and delivering information in multiple languages, on Monday announced a worldwide strategic text mining alliance with SAS Institute, a privately held business intelligence concern.^[9]

SAS Turns to Inxight to Go Multilingual As reported by InternetNews.com Staff, Inxight Software Inc, a Santa Clara, Calif-based developer of software for organizing, analyzing and delivering information in multiple languages, recently announced a worldwide strategic text mining alliance with SAS Institute, a privately held business intelligence concern.^[10]

SAS and Inxight Announce Worldwide Strategic Text Mining Alliance Tuesday, 22 January 2002 Inxight Software, Inc. , the leading provider of software for organizing, analyzing and delivering information in multiple languages on the Internet and enterprise networks, and SAS Institute , the leading provider of business intelligence, has announced a worldwide strategic text mining alliance.^[4]

Cary-based SAS Institute and California-based Inxight Software Inc tmpchng, which provides software for organizing, analyzing and delivering information in multiple languages on the Internet and enterprise networks, have formed a worldwide strategic text-mining alliance.^[11]

A recent strategic alliance between SAS and Inxight Software Inc tmpchng, a provider of software for analyzing information in multiple languages on the Internet, may change that. SAS will enhance their analytical Text Miner product with linguistic technology that Inxight has developed. Another SAS product, Enterprise Miner, has been used to help scientists research enormous amount of DNA data.^[12]

Recently, Inxight and SAS Institute, a provider of business intelligence software, announced an alliance by which Inxight's technology will augment SAS Text Miner software, which analyzes the vast amount of textual data that resides in databases, e-mail and on the Web.^[13]

The two companies are expected to announce an alliance agreement Monday. It will call for SAS to add Inxight's LinguistX Platform, for natural language text analysis, and Inxight Thing Finder, a software product that identifies and extracts desired content from documents, to SAS Text Miner, which is scheduled for release around the middle of this year.^[3]

Through a strategic text mining alliance with Inxight Software, Inc tmpchng, Text Miner ships with rich multilingual text analysis capabilities in English, French and German.^[6]

Inxight Software Inc. and SAS Institute Inc. formed a global text mining alliance that will include multilingual support.^[14]

LATEST NEWS January 21, 2002 SAS forms alliance with Inxight Software.^[11]

SAS forms alliance with Inxight Software - 2002-01-21 - Triangle Business Journal.^[11]

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