Text analytics

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  Swimming with Piranha: Testing Oak Ridge's text analysis tool

  Oak Ridge lab's scalable software shows why it could be of value to investigators, researchers and analysts, especially once it adds Raptor, a metadata tool.
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  Piranha: Decoding the genomic tree in millions of documents

  ORNL's text analytics software sees documents as mathematical vectors, clustering them according to their similarities.
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  Energy lab's Piranha puts teeth into text analysis

  Nearly nine years in the making, the agent-based software, available to other agencies, clusters huge volumes of text documents into groups that are easily processed.
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  Text analytics ready for the heavy lifting of agencies' data mining

  Agencies that deal with the public in any way -- and what agencies don't? -- should be using this data mining technology now, experts say, because they'll be doing a lot of it in the future.
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  Canary in a data mine: How analytics detects early signs of bio threats

  A DHS-funded collaborative mines data from poison centers, EMS reports, population, health care infrastructure, social media and other sources.
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  Text analytics: Reading between the lines of terabytes of data

  With natural language processing and statistical pattern analysis, agencies can dive deep into the tea leaves of public sentiment to detect signs of terrorism, fraud and any number of other activities. They just don’t always want to talk about it.
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  NASA applies deep-diving text analytics to airline safety

  The agency's Aviation Safety Program analyzes incident reports from pilots, air traffic controllers and others to find trouble before it strikes.