tex.tuals
Here’s a preview of the upcoming tex.tuals, one of our technologies for user adaptive learning
systems…Usable tools for mobilizing the multiple dimensions of
digital data.
surfacing embedded structure
Lets face it. Texts are not random collections of words. Every text is embedded with many levels of structure.
Authors work hard to follow rules for how to put words together properly. Syntax is not the whole story. The rules of grammar tell us how to put sentences together. The rules of logic structure assertions and arguments.
But a text works or fails based on how well it coheres. Coherence tell us how well sentences fit together. Does it make sense?
And authors that follow the rules to a 'T' bore us. Good authors play with the rules. They know how to bend them. And when to break them.
So our tuals dont 'structure unstructured data.' They just uncover as many layers of embedded structure as we can find.
intuitive text mining & content analysis
While
written texts are structured by logic and grammar, the way we use language
everyday is far less formal. Colloquial or 'natural language' doesn't follow
all the rules. Sometimes it even makes up its own.
The first step for tex.tuals is to figgure out how well a text conforms to the rules. And whose rules.
We do this by reading the text and breaking it up into chunks. Every word is assigned an appropriate Part of Speech by the Parts-of-Speech (POS) Tagger.
The next step is to run several types of analysis on the text, which draw upon the POS tagging to help disambiguate any portions of the text that could have multiple interpretations.
Then, tex.tuals has to give the reader the space and tuals to read the text and to notice things about it. To draw out connections that are especially important, and engage with the statements assertions, and assumptions of the author.
tuals currently under development...
conceptuals tools for automatically mapping the semantic networks embedded within texts and creating personalized visualizations of the relations between concepts.
perceptuals tools for automatically deriving perspectives of authors from texts and for eliciting experiential and perspectival data in both individual and groups settings (.
aspectuals tools for automatically identifying and classifying attributes, features, characteristics, and other properties of entities embedded within texts, drawn from the particular perspectives of the authorial voice.
factuals tools for harvesting and evaluating facts from large collections of textual and statistical data.
counterfactuals tools for managing false, misleading, and erroneous facts in large collections of textual and statistical data.
actuals tools for assessing the modal status of data from large collections of textual and statistical data.
virtuals multi-dimensional visualization tools for engaging and interacting with virtual spaces and data collections.
hypertextuals tools for the manangement of networked, world-wide-web data collections.
instinctuals tools for exscavating and highlighting high frequencies in biological and neurological microbehaviours.
habituals tools for exscavating and highlighting high frequencies in linguistic and behavioural microbehaviours.
rituals tools for identifying and highlighting high frequencies in individual and social macrobehaviours and for identifying use factors for identified behaviours.
punctuals tools for managing personal timetables and time-based responsibilities.
preceptuals tools for identifying and visualizing ordered value systems.
spirituals tools for identifying and visualizing alternative value systems.
intellectuals tools for exscavating and highlighting high frequencies in higher function .eneurological microbehaviours.
precedentuals tools for identifying historically validated actions, events, and decisions and establishing justifications for current decisions and decision paths.
eventuals tools for managing risk and forecasting market and other complex event probabilities and outcomes.
precinctuals tools for visually managing geographic information.
percentuals tools for visually managing statistical information.
conflictuals tools for visually mapping and managing conflictual relationships.
consentuals tools for statistically aggegating and democratically mobilizing consensus-based relationships.
contractuals tools for managing obligatory relationships.
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