Effective Markup of Unstructured Text – Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two-part series about how SAS Law Enforcement Intelligence’s Markup Control can be essential in organizing data in an investigation. In Part 1 we learned how to add content, markup and edit text, view text instances, create concepts, and clear annotations. In this post, you will learn how to edit concept properties, move annotated text between concepts, display occurrences of concepts in context.
Let’s start with editing a concept property. We learned previously that the properties for a markup concept include information about the concept, about specific relationships that the concept is associated with, and about where the concept appears in the marked-up text. Here we see that to edit a concept property, we need to be on the Annotate Text tab in the Markup control. We select the concept that we want to view in the Concept Type list, Location > Trellis High School,
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and then click Display concept properties. From here, we’ll leave the Concept label as is but use the Concept type drop-down to select Organization to change the concept.
Alternately, if there were a concept we want to remove, we simply click the text in the Text instances section and then click the Remove icon. Again, that removes the concept only, not the actual text from the content pane.
You can move annotated text from one concept to another or create a new concept from an existing concept. For example, the annotated text might contain two variants of the same person’s name (Ginny and Ginnifer). You can merge the occurrence of Ginnifer into the same concept as the occurrences of Ginny.
To merge the Person concept Ginnifer to the Person concept Ginny, we select the concept that we want to update in the Concept Type list, Ginnifer, and click the Move text instances icon.
To complete the merge, we select the Existing concept option and use the arrow buttons to move the text instances that we want to move from the list on the left to the list on the right. In this example, to merge Ginnifer and Ginny Hall together, we select the Ginnifer concept label, click the right arrow, and select Ginny Hall in the Existing concept drop-down list.
Now in the Concept Type list, we see that Ginny Hall has three instances. In the text pane we see Ginny Hall, Ginny, and Ginnifer are all highlighted. And, in the Text instances we see text instances of all three merged names.
Lastly, as I mentioned in Part 1, excessive highlighting could keep truly important information from standing out and that could be overwhelming depending on the amount of text the officer needs to read through. To make important information stand out, you can display gists which display the occurrences of a concept in context within the text.
In View mode, we select the concept that we want to view either from the Concept Type list, Ginny Hall. We see the selected concept is then highlighted in the text that is displayed in the middle pane, and the occurrences of the concept are displayed in context in the Gists section in the right pane.
As you see, SAS Law Enforcement Intelligence's Markup Control can be essential in organizing data that is useful in efficiency and encourages investigation intelligence.
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