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Intelligence Analysis is the process of taking known information about situations and entities of strategic, operational, or tactical importance, characterizing the known, and, with appropriate statements of probability, the future actions in those situations and by those entities. The descriptions are drawn from what may only be available in the form of deliberately deceptive information; the analyst must correlate the similarities among deceptions and extract a common truth. Although its practice is found in its purest form inside intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States or the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6) in the UK, its methods are also applicable in fields such as business intelligence or competitive intelligence.

A typical application is to scan a set of documents written in a natural language and either model the document set for predictive classification purposes or populate a database or search index with the information extracted. Current approaches to text analytics use natural language processing techniques that focus on specialized domains.

Text Analytics describes a set of linguistic, lexical, pattern recognition, extraction, tagging/structuring, visualization, and predictive techniques. The term also describes processes that apply these techniques, whether independently or in conjunction with query and analysis of fielded, numerical data, to solve business problems. These techniques and processes discover and present knowledge - facts, business rules, and relationships - that is otherwise locked in textual form, impenetrable to automated processing.

Typical subtasks are:

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