Content cruncher Leximancer launches version 4.5

Australian text analytics innovator Leximancer Pty Ltd will launch the latest version of its quick and powerful software platform on Thursday 19 May 2016.

Leximancer, spun out from novel research at The University of Queensland, has been helping commercial and government clients around the world understand what their customers are really saying since 2006.

Its ability to automatically identify key themes, concepts and ideas from large amounts of unstructured text, with little or no guidance, is also popular with more than 500 Australian and international research and academic organisations.

Sneak preview webinars on 19 and 20 May will explain the advantages of Leximancer v4.5 before the company’s new and existing customers experience the upgrade (details further on).

“Leximancer v4.5 includes 10 new features that make it even easier, faster and more insightful for research, marketing and customer experience management, business forecasting, informing public policy, and many other industry-specific applications,” said founder and chief scientist, Dr Andrew Smith.

“We’ve supercharged the Leximancer engine and introduced a project control panel to simplify how users configure the software for their needs.

“The new Synopsis function is a useful tool for analysts. It condenses the gist of large document collections to explain and complement Leximancer’s unique concept map capabilities, plus all reporting of comments can be automatically bucketed for more valuable customer feedback insight,” Dr Smith said.

Improved text extractors for pdf, doc, docx, and html documents will also please users.

“Because our customers use Leximancer for all kinds of decision-making, they need to analyse text from a variety of sources, like customer surveys, interview transcripts, long reports, research papers, web pages, feedback forms, tweets, and so on,” Dr Smith said.

Other features new to Leximancer v4.5 will improve how Leximancer integrates with existing systems, such as relaxing project and document file path name restrictions, and removing the need for Java to be installed separately.

Leximancer v4.5 also supports Windows 7, 8, 10 and Mac OS X (10.9+) platforms with IE 11, Firefox  45+, IE Edge and Chrome 50+, and Safari 9+ browsers.

Dr Smith and Leximancer’s lead trainer, Sue York from the Institute for Social Science Research, will explain the advantages of Leximancer v4.5’s new features during sneak preview webinars this week on Thursday 19 May – 11:00 am; Thursday 19 May – 7:00 pm; and Friday 20 May – 11:00 am (Brisbane time). The same webinar will run on three separate live occasions so users around the world can tune in when it best suits their time zones and schedules.

To register for the webinars, click on dates above. For more details about Leximancer, visit http://info.leximancer.com/