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Key phrases are all about being informative!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
 
A key phrase is defined as a meaningful and significant expression consisting of one or more words in a document. For example a keyword "information" is very general while phrases "information overload" and further "information overload syndrome" provide much better understanding.
 
Appropriately, key phrases serve as a highly condensed summary for a document, and they are used as contextual labels to supplement the title or they can be highlighted within the body of the document to facilitate users’ fast browsing and reading.
 
Key phrases are usually manually assigned by authors, especially for journals,  conference articles or back-of-the book indexes.  However, the vast majority of documents such as news, magazine articles, web pages do not provide key phrases because the manual effort of assigning key phrases is too expensive. Therefore it is useful to automatically extract key phrases from web pages to accompany the main content of the document.
  
Key phrases are all about being informative!
 
Informativeness tells us how well a phrase captures or illustrates the key ideas.  Practice shows that users prefer using key phrases in their searches because they are getting more accurate results.
 
Because informativeness depends on the background information - the context - the more context we have  the better is our understanding.
 
Context plays crucial role in rapid information analysis and synthesis. Software tools, such as Context Organizer,  that specialize in spotlighting the key phrases provide a convenient shorthand for researchers and writers.
 
Context Organizer immediately focuses on the essential information and helps with rapid reviews of large number of documents in short time. Quick reviews of the key phrases with relevant context provide practical clues as to the usefulness of the information.

 

 

 * This mind map was produced using Context Organizer for MindManager

Context Organizer is available in English, French, German and Spanish.
 
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There is a need to automatically create key phrases

Monday, April 26th, 2010
 
Key phrases are meant to serve multiple goals:
 
   1.  They enable the reader to quickly determine whether the given article is of interest
 
   2.  When key phrases are gathered in the cumulative index - the goal is indexing. They enable the reader to quickly find relevant content when the reader has a specific need.
 
   3.  A search that matches a given query term in the keyword field will yield a higher quality list of hits than a search for the same term in the full text of the documents.
 
Given the fact that we are inundated with information there is a need for tools that can automatically create key phrases. And paradoxically, although key phrases are very useful, only a small minority of the online documents provide key phrases.
 
The principle for choosing key phrases is that the key phrase list is relatively short  and it must contain only the most important, topical phrases for a given document.
 
Context Organizer  treats a document as a set of phrases which must be ranked in terms of relevancy. It  views key phrase determination as a classification problem.  The task is to classify content in the document into one of two categories: either it is a key phrase or it is not a key phrase. The software evaluates key phrases by the degree to which its classifications correspond to human-generated classifications.
 
A huge advantage of the product is that the use of Context Organizer does not require costly training. It works instantly. The applied genetic algorithm and statistical methods are applicable across any types of documents.
 
Key phrases serve diverse goals the main one being the ability to capture the most important topics of the documents.
 
And since a key phrase list can be read and judged in seconds the usefulness of this approach leads to practical applications. Once the key phrases are identified the contextual summaries are easily recognized and collected. The key phrases and summaries are a suitable candidates for mind mapping, generating briefings, reports, documents summaries,  indexes, back-of-the-book lists for browsing, profiling user interests, personalization of subscriptions and many more applications.
 
There are many ways to further customize summarization by creating keywords to watch and keywords to block lists. The biggest advantage of summarization is that it acts as content filtering applications. And in this sense it works in a similar way that we read text which is mostly by scanning and skimming.  

 

 

 

 

 * This mind map was produced using Context Organizer for MindManager

Context Organizer is available in English, French, German and Spanish.
 
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Context Organizer Web server enables large volume text summarization and extraction

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
 
  
Context Organizer Web server enables large volume text summarization and extraction of the essential keywords from a wide variety of sources such as search engines, SharePoint, RSSs, news feeds, etc. Each summary can be conveniently delivered as an XML file.
 
Summarization is an efficient form of text filtering. The result of summarization is a collection of the most vital content. In short, a long text is compressed to much shorter retaining all the essential information and leaving out secondary details. 
 
Context Organizer Web server makes otherwise difficult to find information easily accessible and relieves the users from tedious searches. The server works ideally for automatically building knowledge index comprised of subjects, contextual summaries, relevancy ranking and references.
 
With Context Organizer web server users spend more time on analysis, recommendations and scrutiny of information versus burning up valuable time on inefficient searches.
 
From the business point of view the objectives are:
 
  •   Save valuable time by finding relevant information fast
  •   Reduce costs through auto-discovery
  •   Increase revenues by finding new opportunities and leads and by being more informed in customer relations
  •   Through continuous monitoring identify the trends and adjust business strategy accordingly
  •   Support teams by enabling learning from each other, gaining inspiration for new ideas and shorten time to market
 
Deploying the Context Organizer web server automates such tasks as:
 
  •   Aggregating summaries and keywords from multiple sources.
  •   Classifying content using mind maps.
  •   Analyzing trends and patterns.
  •   Searching full text documents by topics and contextual summaries.
  •   Delivering content in a relevant format to authorized users
  •   Providing customization through profiling users’ interests
 
 The contextual summaries are easily integrated with the existing corporate systems such as data bases, content management, knowledge management, ERP, CRM, dissemination and subscription services.
 
 
 
 
* This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.
 
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Context Organizer Web server - a high performance text mining hub

Monday, April 12th, 2010

 

As much as over 80% of the daily decisions are based on mainly unstructured information coming from search engines, websites, emails, corporate documents, press and media information, competitor information.
 
The amount of corporate information doubles every three months, which
increases the need for implementing efficient and powerful text mining tools.
 
Context Organizer Web server offers a high performance text mining hub to support knowledge management and competitive intelligence. The product is easily customized for workgroups and individuals.
 
Context Organizer Web server can be easily integrated into a company’s intranet, where it works as the central hub for managing both internal and external information streams.
 
Context Organizer Web server can also be a hosted solution accessed via a web interface and thus does not require any software installation on the customer’s own server.
 
Information can be provided from many different types of internal and external sources: websites, newsfeeds, email, file servers, and databases. Users can publish and store information either through email or a web-based interface to automatically feed it into their own systems.
 
Context Organizer Web server is a flexible and modular tool that can suit the needs of both small and large organizations. Compared to many other software packages, it has a high price/performance ratio.
 
How does it work?
 
Context Organizer Web server is a software product that can:
•     rapidly summarize large amounts of information
•     structure the information according to a customized XML format
•     present the summarized information in a user-friendly way to many different users based on their profiles
•     store the keywords and contextual summaries in your corporate knowledge index to provide rapid access to any corporate information
•     deliver the summaries as mind maps such as Mindjet MindManager or Comapping
 
 
Context Organizer Web is highly scalable and users can choose to start with building only the knowledge index for specific projects or for monitoring specific information sources before deploying it globally.
 
The system can also be integrated with different business systems, such as Contents Management, Knowledge Management, ERP, CRM, and other similar types of systems.
 
Context Organizer Web is particularly well suited to summarize the results from search engines, RSSs, wide variety of subscription sources, blogs, and news feeds.  

 

 * This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.

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Context Organizer pinpoints salient information quickly

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

 

David Esko of ERP Blue Diamond owns a company specializing in providing knowledge and mind maps for SAP customers. His company developed hundreds of process and knowledge maps. Their preferred visualization tool is MindManager from Mindjet.

In the past few months David started to use Context Organizer for MindManager. Here are his comments:

Since I work in the SAP world as a project / program manager, my knowledge and process maps are exercised heavily!

I use Context Organizer extensively to generate summary information that relate to generation of sales and pre-sales content when researching industry vertical information as well as information regarding the latest best business practices and how the solution will apply to my prospect or client.

If I’m helping a sales effort, I can turn the summarized information that has been gleaned from very voluminous web sites, and spin a fact filled PowerPoint presentation so fast, most sales people wonder how I did it!

Best business practices are done in a similar way. In these instances, I need to go to multiple sources of data that are mostly web based, but also in huge Word documents and extract information regarding the way a prospect executes their business processes today (as is), but also compare it to future state business processes.

Two major time savers; first, older and voluminous ‘as is’ documentation needs to be summarized very quickly. My teams don’t generally waste a lot of our clients’ time on the way they perform their business processes today. That’s why we need to extract the salient information from their document archives quickly and extrapolate the critical from the non-critical information.

We compare the ‘as is’ results to the ‘to be’ future state and we can almost instantly identify where the bottlenecks might occur before diving into the project. The keywords for me are, proactive and pre-emptive! Context Organizer gives me these abilities!

 

 * This mind map was produced using Context Organizer for MindManager

Context Organizer is available in English, French, German and Spanish.
 
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Because the Internet is made of content…

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
 
There is lots of content on the Internet. The Internet is made of publishers.
 
And everybody knows how to publish: blogs, portals, newspapers, books, magazines, on line conversations… 
 
So here is a practical question: is content strategy about publishing or about consuming information? It seems that they are like hand-and-glove pairing. But is there a fit?
 
We are all familiar with the concept of information overload. There is not enough time and bandwith to be able to absorb all the information that is chasing us.
 
My work on text mining and summarization suggests that great value can be dervided from intelligently compressing large text into a much smaller text. And if the smaller text tells us through the keywords and the key sentences what the large text contains in all its rich details, than we have the best of both worlds.
 
The summaries are those well versed guides. They expertly inform us what we should pay attention to. They provide us with context to make us conversant with the topics. And all of this is done quickly and without overloading our cognitive capacities.
 
I firmly believe that content should always come with a companion summary.  This is the reason that I advocate the use of summarization as a friendly service for both the publishers and the readers.

 

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Context Organizer for MindManager and SharePoint

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

 

On February 23rd, 2010, Mindjet announced MindManager for SharePoint.  Michael Deutch writes on the Mindjet blog:

MindManager for SharePoint provides faster and easier ways to find, organize and update SharePoint tasks and information. With MindManager for SharePoint, you can create personalized interactive views (maps) of SharePoint data to save time accessing and updating your content within SharePoint.

 

Context Discovery Inc. is glad to announce that Context Organizer for MindManager supports SharePoint. The same capability of automatic generation of MindManager maps by Context Organizer is extended to SharePoint users.

 

Context Organizer for MindManager for SharePoint summarizes SharePoint documents and pages and instantly renders them as mind maps.

The primary challenge knowledge workers face is to make sense from reams of documents in SharePoint.  The automatic map generation frees the user from time consuming map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping and editing the visually mapped information.

Using the build-in summarization, the MindManager and SharePoint users get to their key information faster, saving precious time and energy.

Context Organizer summarization is a powerful add-in to the knowledge worker’s toolbox. 

Context Organizer for MindManager with SharePoint is available in English, French, German and Spanish.

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On this day - March 3, 1847…

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

 

Alexander Graham Bell  an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh.

Bell’s father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell’s life’s work.

His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.

In retrospect, Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.

Many other inventions marked Bell’s later life, including groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils and aeronautics. In 1888, Alexander Graham Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.

 

 * This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization. Information source: Wikipedia

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What makes an effective summary?

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

 

An effective summary is highly readable. It provides a way to gain quick understanding.

Summarizing is important for strategic readers because it helps rapidly grasp the meaning of text. Providing accurate and concise presentation of the original text’s most important points is at the heart of helpful summaries.

The extracted keywords serve as a powerful checklist guiding your eyes from one relevant point to another relevant point.

In effect the long original text is reduced without missing the main points and without distorting the meaning and intentions of the original version. The ability to identify the key topics and sentences is Context Organizer’s most essential capability.

To navigate the map just click on the " + " or "  - " markers to expand or contract the map.

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Context Organizer in Comapping

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

 

Gene Bellinger uses Comapping - a mind mapping application - to manage numerous projects and collaborate with various teams. He is also the editor of SystemsWiki.
 
As we know reading articles in Wikis can be very arduous. This is where Comapping’s visual presentation power comes very handy!
 
Mind mapping offers a refreshing presentation that  is much easier absorbed by human brains then endless lists and bullet points. The power of mind maps is that they communicate conceptual relationships by creating clear visual structure and connectivity between relevant elements.
 
However, the challenge of actually drawing a mind map is quite considerable. Each element has to be rendered and labeled and  connected. And here comes the power of automatic mind mapping enabled by Context Organizer that now is integrated with Comapping.
 
In the Context Organizer in Comapping  post Gene provides a simple comparison of a Wiki page before and after automatic mind mapping. As you can see, the difference is startling: from a difficult  to read page to a clear visual and vibrant presentation done just with a click of a button.
 
This is what Gene says about the usability and accuracy of Context Organizer automatic mind mapping ability:
 
The keyword analysis and context generation to the right of those links [after] was generated with a single mouse click. I’ve reviewed the analysis on several documents and I think it’s spot on. What’s the math telling you?
 
 
With Context Organizer in Comapping you can instantly convert plain textual information into visually attractive mind maps with a simple click to have both: powerful knowledge mining and knowledge representation tool under your fingertips!
 

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