Use Cases for Unstructured Data

Automating text analysis requires prior knowledge of what the text is about and a great deal of upfront work to build relevant dictionaries or ontologies. The exception is InterSystems iKnow technology, which employs a unique “bottom-up” approach that analyzes text based solely on what is contained in the text itself.This paper outlines four basic use cases for the kinds of insights that can be gained from text analysis.For each use case, we briefly describe how real InterSystems customers have leveraged iKnow technology to enhance their applications with text analysis.