Introducing the new developments
in Tropes Zoom Version 7.0

 

Major Improvements

The entire range benefits from a New Semantic Kernel with extended capacities. On the technical side, the maximum size of a compound term has been raised to 79 characters, the maximum size of a Scenario has been increased to 65,000 groups (including over 100,000 lexical entries), and the internal dictionaries of the software have been doubled in capacity. This modification opens excellent prospects for the future. It is now possible to import most existing large thesauruses and encyclopedic dictionaries into the Scenario. Upstream compatibility is maintained: your old Scenarios can be imported into the new version.

We have greatly increased the number of semantic classes managed as standard in the V7 semantic networks, with the aim of making Zoom searches more precise, to have more legible references and to facilitate the creation of classifications (Scenarios) for projects concerning Business Intelligence, Marketing analysis or Information science.

The new Graph of the actors represents the concentration of relations between the main actors in the whole of the text. It can be used to make a visual comparison of the "weight" of the Relations between the principal references (or between the groups in the Scenario). The frequency of relations and the number of different relations are indicators of the center of interest of the text analyzed.

Addition of a Terminology extractor capable of automatically identifying most significant expressions and compounds, as well as all nouns not classified in the existing classification. This new tool is useful both for rapidly enriching the Scenarios of the software (for example, by grouping together all acronyms and the expressions corresponding to them) and for obtaining a more precise classification (proposing, for example, to "hard-wire" terms causing ambiguity problems, and/or which might generate "noise" in the list of Relations).

 

Other modifications

Tropes V7 can open several files simultaneously and manage the list of open files from a tab in its interface.

The Scenarios of earlier versions can be imported into V7 automatically (however, they must all be copied into the Scenario folder of the new version, and then saved, to convert them into V7).

The [Search] dialog box can create labels for groups in the Scenario (optionally).

Results of type Reference field, References, Relations, verbs and adjectives can be sorted by alphabetical order, using the toolbar (at bottom left in the Tropes result panel).

Copying of results into the clipboard has been improved for better legibility and to facilitate use of the data in spreadsheets and statistical software. The literals and counters have been interchanged.

It is possible to search for a word by entering the first character in the Tropes result list (for example, type "a" repeatedly to scroll through all the results that begin with A).

Version 7 accepts the installation of Plug-ins (external applications visible in the Tropes menus), by parameterizing the Windows registry (see installation documentation for further information).

Conversion of Unicode files has been improved, especially for XML files and TXT formats operating under BOM (Byte Order Mark) standard.

Maintenance and compatibility of classifications will be improved for all server applications using V7 Scenarios, thanks to a Scenario persistence mechanism (unique digital signatures), by which a semantic group can be recognized even if it has been renamed or moved in the arborescence. These signatures are already used in our V7 Web Module.

The default folder for example texts is now named /Text (instead of /Textes) in all languages supported.

The Tropes and Zoom logos are different.

 

Remarks on updating

1. Tropes and Zoom V7 use more RAM than preceding versions (about 20 Mb of RAM when both applications are running). Zoom's indexing speed is slightly decreased and the disk space required is up by 10% (though this depends on the type of Scenario used).
2. It is advisable to allocate about 10 Mb more to install the software (50 Mb per language).
3. Version 7 will cohabit with earlier versions on the same computer, so you can easily continue to use an earlier version for some time, if you feel this is necessary.
4. You must save your existing Scenarios before installing the new version.

For any other information, contact us
info@semantic-knowledge.com

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