SAS Text Analytics for Business Applications

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Information Extraction with SAS

1.1. Introduction to Information Extraction

1.1.1. History

1.1.2. Evaluation

1.1.3. Information Extraction versus Data Extraction versus Information Retrieval5

1.1.4. Situations in Which to Use IE for Business Problems

1.2. The SAS IE Toolkit

1.2.1. NLP Foundation for IE

1.2.2. LITI Rule Syntax

1.2.3. Predefined Concepts

1.2.4. Taxonomy of Concepts

1.2.5. Algorithms for Matching

1.2.6. Interfaces for Building and Applying Models

1.3. Reasons for Using SAS IE

1.4. When You Should Use Other Approaches instead of SAS IE

1.5. Important Terms in the Book

1.5.1. Strings versus Tokens

1.5.2. Named Entities and Predefined Concepts

1.5.3. Parent Forms and Other Variants

1.5.4. Found Text and ...