Tropes Zoom
| Developer(s) | Pierre Molette, Agnès Landré, Rodolphe Ghiglione |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 10 November 1994 |
| Stable release | 8.4.0 / July 8, 2013 |
| Operating system | Windows, Mac and Linux under Wine (software) |
| Size | 65.0 MB (per language) |
| Available in | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian |
| Type | Semantic analysis |
| License | Free License (BSD-like) |
| Website | www.semantic-knowledge.com |
Tropes Zoom is a desktop search engine and semantic analysis software from Acetic/Semantic-Knowledge.
Originally written by Pierre Molette in 1994 in partnership with University Paris 8, Tropes Zoom was the first search engine based on semantic networks to be widely known.
Unlike other search engines, Tropes Zoom will suggest that the user replace each identified word with the sense it is contained into. Thus, the search is not carried out directly on the words you have chosen, but on the totality of their semantic equivalents. It let users to group files together by subject, and to analyze all the texts dealing with one or several themes within a large collection of documents.
Since 2011, Tropes is available as a free software under a variant of BSD licenses agreement.
Tropes Zoom features
The Tropes Zoom suite for Microsoft Windows comprises five components:
- Tropes, text analysis and semantic classification software.
- Zoom, semantic search engine.
- Integrated web crawler, to collect Internet content.
- Integrated report writer.
- Optional Web module (Web Repository generator).
Tropes text analysis
Tropes is a semantic analysis (free) software designed to extract relevant information from texts.
The software use several analysis tools and techniques including:
- Word-sense disambiguation
- Summarization and text style identification
- Word categorization
- Natural language Ontology manager
- Chronological analysis
- Real-time graphs and hypertext navigation
This software was initially developed, in 1994, by Pierre Molette and Agnès Landré on the basis of the work of Rodolphe Ghiglione.
Since June 2013, Tropes V8.4 can export results formatted for Gephi (network analysis and visualization software).
See also
- Desktop search
- List of desktop search engines
- Text mining
Further reading
- R. Ghiglione, G. Minnini & E. Salès. The intralocutor's diatextual frame. Journal of pragmatics, 1995.
- Vander Putten, Jim; Nolen, Amanda L. (2010). Comparing Results from Constant Comparative and Computer Software Methods: A Reflection about Qualitative Data Analysis. Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 5(2), 99-112.
- W. Visser & M. Wolff. A cognitive approach to spatial discourse production. Combining manual and automatic analyses of route descriptions. Proceedings of European Science Conference 2003. EuroCognSci03 (pp. 355–360). Osnabrück, Germany, 2003.
- Y. Kodratoff. Knowledge Discovery in Texts: a definition and applications in Foundation of Intelligent Systems, Ras & Skowron (Eds.) LNAI1609, Springer, 1999.
- A.Piolat & R.Bannour. An example of text analysis software (EMOTAIX-Tropes) use: The influence of anxiety on expressive writing Current Psychology Letters, 2009.
- S. Despres & B. Delforge. Designing medical law ontology from technical texts and core ontology. 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management,EKAW Ontology and texts Workshop, 2000.