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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.<br><br>
Normand Peladeau<br>
Provalis Research<br><br>
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<b>Montreal - June 8, 2006. </b> <b>Provalis Research</b> 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: <br><br>
<ul>
<li>Rule-based codification of terms using Boolean (AND, OR, NOT) and
proximity (NEAR, BEFORE, AFTER)operators.
<li>Ability to define external text preprocessing modules.
<li>Automatic document classification using Naive Bayes and k-Nearest
Neighbor methods.
<li>Powerful text retrieval features that are fully integrated within
tables and visualization tools.
<li>A vocabulary extractor for identification of technical terms, product
names and company names.
<li>A feature to store normative frequency data to disk and to compare
observed frequencies to saved norms.
<li>New clustering options such as second-order proximity and
probabilistic co-occurrence measures.
</ul><b>QDA Miner</b> 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.<br><br>
<b>Provalis Research</b> also announces plans for the future release of a
software developer's kit (SDK) for the integration of WordStat
categorization and <br>
classification technologies into applications, databases or document
management systems.<br><br>
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 <b>Provalis Research</b>’s web site at: <br><br>
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<a href="http://www.provalisresearch.com/">http</a>
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www.provalisresearch.com<br><br>
</a>Founded in 1989, <b>Provalis Research</b> 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. <br>
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Normand Péladeau<br>
Provalis Research<br>
<a href="http://www.provalisresearch.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.provalisresearch.com</a> <br>
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