Inxight Software, Inc. was a
software company
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Types
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specializing in
visualization
Visualization or visualisation may refer to:
*Visualization (graphics), the physical or imagining creation of images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message
* Data visualization, the graphic representation of data
* Information visualiz ...
,
information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...
and
natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...
. It was bought by
Business Objects
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For example, a "Manager" would be a ''business object'' where its attributes c ...
in 2007;
Business Objects was in turn acquired by
SAP AG
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in 2008. Founded in 1997, Inxight was headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California
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Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the nort ...
. It was originally spun out of
Xerox PARC
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.
Products
Inxight offered text analysis products in the form of C++ libraries:
* LinguistX for the identification of stems, parts of speech, and noun phrases.
* Summarizer for the identification of key phrases and key sentences.
*
ThingFinder for the identification of entities and grammatical patterns, such as "facts", events, relations, and sentiment. This was built on a proprietary pattern-matching language.
* Categorizer for matching a document to nodes in a taxonomy hierarchy.
And also visualization products:
* StarTree, a
hierarchical
A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important ...
and graph visualization/navigation tool.
* TableLens, a trend visualization tool for large data sets.
* TimeWall, an event/timeline visualization tool.
This functionality is now available via SAP Hybri
YaaS Marketand is embedded in various SAP platforms (such as SAP HANA and SAP Data Services).
See also
*
Computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, comput ...
*
Natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...
*
Named entity recognition
Named-entity recognition (NER) (also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction) is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre ...
References
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External links
Inxight website- (moved t
SAP website
Software companies based in California
Defunct software companies of the United States
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Xerox spin-offs