[Corpora-List] New WordStat 5.0

[Normand Peladeau]

I didn't know whether it was appropriate to do an announcement for a 
commercial product on this list but since it is closely related to the 
analysis of text corpora, I thought it would be of interest for members of 
the list. You will find below the press release that was made last week.

Normand Peladeau
Provalis Research

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Montreal - June 8, 2006.   Provalis Research is pleased to announce the 
release of WordStat 5, a content analysis and text-mining tool offering new 
features that dramatically improve the flexibility of processes for text 
categorization and document classification and that enhance support for 
knowledge-discovery tasks. WordStat 5 delivers improved performances and 
more than 40 new features, including:

    * Rule-based codification of terms using Boolean (AND, OR, NOT) and 
proximity (NEAR, BEFORE, AFTER)operators.
    * Ability to define external text preprocessing modules.
    * Automatic document classification using Naive Bayes and k-Nearest 
Neighbor methods.
    * Powerful text retrieval features that are fully integrated within 
tables and visualization tools.
    * A vocabulary extractor for identification of technical terms, product 
names and company names.
    * A feature to store normative frequency data to disk and to compare 
observed frequencies to saved norms.
    * New clustering options such as second-order proximity and 
probabilistic co-occurrence measures.
QDA Miner users will appreciate the new capability to perform, directly 
from within WordStat, autocoding based on a powerful keyword retrieval 
feature.  The most advanced users will also appreciate the ability to 
define disambiguation rules.

Provalis Research also announces plans for the future release of a software 
developer's kit (SDK) for the integration of WordStat categorization and
classification technologies into applications, databases or document 
management systems.

For more information on all the new features introduced in Version 5 or on 
related products, or to download a free fully functional version of 
WordStat, visit the new Provalis Research’s web site at:

         <http://www.provalisresearch.com/>http://www.provalisresearch.com

Founded in 1989, Provalis Research provides a family of software systems 
that is flexible, easy to use and offers an unsurpassed integration of 
statistical analysis, qualitative data analysis, content analysis and text 
mining.


Normand Péladeau
Provalis Research
www.provalisresearch.com
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