Analytics giant SAS has announced a new offering, SAS Visual Text Analytics, to extract value from unstructured data using the combined power of natural language processing (NLP), machine learning and linguistic rules.

It addresses business challenges across industries, including managing and interpreting notes, assessing risk and fraud, and using customer feedback for early detection of problems.

Capabilities of SAS Visual Text Analytics include text mining, contextual extraction, categorisation, sentiment analysis and search within a modern and flexible framework.

The software allows users to prepare data for analysis, visually explore topics, build text models and deploy them within existing systems or business processes.

Users can quickly analyse large volumes of data using predefined templates and integrate the output of text analytics with other machine learning and forecasting techniques.

http://www.sas.com/vta