SearchInk's algorithm also learns how to understand and analyze a document as a whole, the way a person would, and therefore find relevant content quickly and accurately.
OpenCalais, which is free, uses natural language processing, machine learning and other methods to analyze a document and finds the entities within it.
So scientists continue to strive for the day when a computer will analyze a Web document and, without any human interference, instantly understand what that document is about.
The high-level idea is to analyze a stream of documents and find features whose behavior is 'bursty': they occur with high intensity over a limited period of time.
Two teachers an agronomic engineer and an applied linguist, together with around 20 master students, analyzed a patent document by contrasting it with a 'twin' research article written by the same authors on the same technology and examining their differing contexts and textual and social outcomes.
During the class session, students received an orientation to both the Rubenstein Library and the digitized materials, followed by a group exercise focused on analyzing a single document from the Allen Building Takeover Collection.
For users, DOCODE produces a number of visualizations and reports from the different outputs to let teachers and professors gain insights on the originality of the documents they review, allowing them to discover, understand and handle possible plagiarism cases and making it easier and much faster to analyze a vast number of documents.
In addition, it is shown how the system analyzes a document containing natural language sentences in order to recognize its main topics or themes.
More broadly, she has collaborated with Bilal to both publish and analyze an array of original-source documents about Armenian women, ranging in time from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Currently, users can customize permissions to share the full content of some documents, or instead only allow the system to analyze information in a document, but prevent its retrieval by others.
Files meeting the search criteria are then ranked by relevance -- and here's the cool part that sets it apart from even the best Web search engines -- the computer will analyze the document and create a brief synopsis of the file's contents, not just the first few lines of text.
