SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys
Gain Full Value from Text Responses
SPSS Inc. created SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to help you gain full value from text responses without the drudgery and expense associated with manual coding.
Specifically designed for survey text, SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys is based on our powerful SPSS® natural language processing (NLP) software technologies. SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys offers both automated
and manual techniques, giving you greater control over the process and your results.
With SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys, you can import data not only from SPSS for Windows, Microsoft® Excel®, and ODBC-compliant databases but also from our versatile Dimensions family of survey research
products, which includes solutions for paper-based, Web-based, and telephone interviewing. Export results created in SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys either as categories or dichotomies for further analysis in SPSS,
mrTables, or Excel.
Benefits of Using SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys
Whether you conduct surveys to support decision making in business, education, or government, or as part of your academic research, you can benefit from using SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to categorize text
responses. For example:
- If you're currently categorizing responses in-house, you can do so faster, yet with equal or greater reliability
- If you use outside services to categorize responses, you can save money by doing some or all of it in-house instead
- If you categorize responses for clients, you can streamline the creation of categories, making your process more efficient and increasing client satisfaction
- You can save and reuse categories, saving time and making your analysis of similar or "follow-up" surveys more consistent
- Your analysis, whether for internal use or for clients, will provide added insight into survey participants' opinions, attitudes, and behavior
New features in SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys 2.1 extend and enhance the abilities of this software. You can now:
- Work with the Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating system—Windows Vista Business or Home Basic (32- and 64-bit) is supported
- Work with survey text in non-English languages—different native language versions (Dutch, French, German, and Spanish) are available
- Attain better automated extraction and classification performance—extraction and classification components have been enhanced
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