Inxight Software, Inc. was a software company specializing in visualization, information retrieval and natural language processing. It was bought by Business Objects in 2007;[1] Business Objects was in turn acquired by SAP AG in 2008. Founded in 1997, Inxight was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It was originally spun out of Xerox PARC.
Products
Inxight offered text analysis products in the form of C++ libraries:
And also visualization products:
This functionality is now available via SAP Hybris YaaS Market and is embedded in various SAP platforms (such as SAP HANA and SAP Data Services).
- 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.
- StarTree, a hierarchical and graph visualization/navigation tool.
- TableLens, a trend visualization tool for large data sets.
- TimeWall, an event/timeline visualization tool.
See also
- Computational linguistics
- Natural language processing
- Named entity recognition
External links
- Inxight website - (moved to SAP website)
References
- Business Objects completes Inxight acquisition Computer Weekly^