SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys | NLP Software, Categorize, Text Responses

Gain Full Value from Text Responses

You include open-ended questions in your surveys because you know there’s great value in letting people express their views in their own words. But it can be tedious, time-consuming, and costly to categorize or "code" 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

Read more about these and other new features in SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys 2.1.

SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys’ linguistic technologies automate the coding process, while its manual controls enable us to manage the process and the quality of the results. The insights that SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys delivers have enhanced the quality of our quantitative analysis and the decision-making ability of our customers. SPSS is among a rare breed of software developers that really do listen and respond to customer needs.
Karl G. Buchholz
Core Group Manager, Market Research
McKesson Provider Technologies

Different native language versions of SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys are available for analyzing English, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish survey text. Contact your local office to find out more about this product.

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Gain Full Value from Text Responses

Benefits of Using SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys