Creating a pre-populated dictionary directly from the results of an analysis
PolyAnalyst 6.5.1402 introduces a new, convenient feature for creating custom dictionaries. When analyzing text, you can use dictionaries to bias and tweak your analytic results, such as by excluding keywords through the use of a stop list, or grouping keywords as synonyms through the use of a thesaurus-like dictionary. PolyAnalyst ships with a variety of default dictionaries to kick start your analytical projects. Sometimes the default dictionaries are enough, but sometimes they are insufficient, in which case you are then faced with the task of creating a new dictionary. This often happens because of the domain of your analytical task. To really gain insight from the data, you need to teach PolyAnalyst about the jargon the speakers in the data happen to be using. Just like visiting a foreign country, you can get around town much more easily when you speak the local language. The traditional way of doing this…
