Inxight Software, Inc. is a software company specializing in visualization

Information visualization

Information visualization is the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information, such as files and lines of code in software systems, library and bibliographic databases, networks of relations on the internet, and so forth".- Overview...

, information retrieval

Information retrieval

Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...

 and natural language processing

Natural language processing

Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....

. It was bought by Business Objects

Business Objects (company)

SAP Business Objects is a French enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence . Since 2007, it has been a part of SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers worldwide in its final earnings release...

 in 2007; Business Objects was in turn acquired by SAP AG

SAP AG

SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

 in 2008. Founded in 1997, Inxight is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...

. It was originally spun out of Xerox PARC

Xerox PARC

PARC , formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and co-development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems....

.

Products

Inxight offers text analysis products in the form of C++ libraries:

• LinguistX identifies stems, parts of speech, and noun phrases.
• Summarizer identifies key phrases and key sentences.
• ThingFinder identifies entities and grammatical patterns, such as "facts", events, relations, and sentiment. This is built on a proprietary pattern-matching language that is compiled into a finite-state transducer.
• Categorizer matches a document to nodes in a taxonomy hierarchy.

And also visualization products:

• StarTree, a hierarchical and graph visualization/navigation tool.
• TableLens, trend visualization tool for large data sets.
• TimeWall, an event/timeline visualization tool.

See also

• Computational linguistics
  Computational linguistics
  Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....
  
  
• Natural language processing
  Natural language processing
  Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
  
  
• Named entity recognition
  Named entity recognition
  Named-entity recognition is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify atomic elements in text into predefined categories such as the names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc.Most research on NER...
  
  

External links

• Inxight web site - (moved to SAP web site)
• Teragram web site