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Getting Started with The Mole Content Analyzer
"Intuitive and simple browser user interface"
Within 15 minutes understand how The Mole Content Analyzer can save you a significant amount of time
assessing the relevance of information that you have to deal with every day.
Quickly analyze the content of a single document or multiple documents
using The Mole Content Analyzer. Content Analyzer is activated from
within a Word document, PDF file or HTML page; or from a search result across
a pool of documents.
To analyze the content of a single document, open a Word document or a pdf file. Select The Mole toolbar icon within Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If The Mole is not available as a toolbar icon in any of your information sources
refer Trouble Shooting.
If you cannot solve your installation problem send an email to: .
To analyze the content of multiple documents, enter your search term in The
Mole Search. Documents with your particular search term will be displayed
with a link to analyze the content of each document based on your search term.
The results from The Mole Content Analyzer are displayed within a Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser window.
The Internet Explorer Browser options, Forward/Back/Printing/Saving, are available.
The Mole Content Analyzer enables you to get the information you need
quickly and easily.
You will use The Mole Content Analyzer in different ways depending on your individual needs.
In this section we discuss the following:
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Screening
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What is this document about?
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Is this document worth reading?
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Do I want to keep this document?
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Use The Mole Content Analyzer
to create an initial abstract based around the key word in the
document.
- Read the abstract to get an understanding of the document.
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Use Refine Analysis to further analyze the use of the key word in the context of the suggested word.
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Review Key Words and Key
Phrases and create abstracts of text related to any points of interest.
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Enter a Search expression to create an abstract of the text based on a specific topic of interest.
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Searching
- What does this document have to say about a specific topic?
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Enter a Search expression using
words or phrases to create an abstract of text based on your topic of interest.
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Use Key Words or Key Phrases to broaden your coverage of the text based on
actual terms used within the content.
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Discovering
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Review the Key Phrases in the document.
The list of phrases gives you an insight into the main themes in the text.
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If you are looking for a particular phrase you can order the phrases alphabetically.
Select the menu option Order alphabetically.
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If you want to display phrases that appear in a minimum number of sentences, select a number from the options provided with Minimum
sentences.
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Select a phrase from the list to display the sentences that the phrase
is in. The phrase must be in at least 2 sentences to be included in the list.
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Review the Key Words in the document
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If you are looking for a particular word you can order the words alphabetically. Select the menu option Order
alphabetically.
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If you want to find a particular word within
the list of words displayed use the Internet Explorer Edit and Find (Ctrl
F) Option.
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If you want to display words that appear in a
minimum number of sentences, select a number from the options provided with Minimum
sentences.
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Select a word from the list to analyze its contextual use.
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Use Refine Analysis to further
analyze the use of the word in the context of the suggested word.
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Iterate the process by selecting suggested
words of relevance to get a tighter focus on the meaning.
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If you want to display all the sentences that
the word appears in select the number displayed next to the required word.
(This is different to selecting the word as there is no analysis of the word's
contextual use in this instance.)
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Enter a Search expression to create an abstract of the text based on a specific topic of interest.
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Editing (in association with authoring)
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How tightly written is this document?
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Is the document focused or discursive?
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Is there a single strong theme, or several themes of similar
strength?
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Is the style appropriate?
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Have I used non-preferred terminology?
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I need to create an Executive Summary for this document.
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I want to create key terms for profiling this document.
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The Mole Content Analyzer can answer these questions for you in the following ways:
Focus and writing style
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Review the Phrases in the document.
The list of phrases gives you an insight into the main themes
in the text.
The phrases are listed in order of occurrence.
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Select the phrase(s) representing the
theme(s) of the document to
review the text in relation to the selected phrase.
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Review the phrases for appropriate style and to identify if
colloquialisms or turns of phrase have been used inappropriately.
Intended meaning and executive summary
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Use The Mole Content Analyzer to
create an abstract based around the key word in the document to gain an insight into the meaning of the
document as conveyed to the reader.
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The default analysis gives an unbiased view of the document for you to decide if it conveys the meaning you
intended.
It also gives you a fresh view of the information from which to create an executive summary.
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Comparing 2 Versions of a
Document
- How do I find out what has changed between 2 versions of a document?
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Use The Mole Content Analyzer to create an
abstract based around the key word in each document,
with the results of each analysis in a separate browser window.
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Resize each browser window so one set of results are on the left hand
side of the screen and the other set of results are on the right hand side of
the screen.
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Review the Phrases in each document noting the number of times
the phrase appears in each document.
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You may want to order the phrases alphabetically. Select the menu
option Order alphabetically.
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Select a phrase from the list in each document to display the sentences
that the phrase is in. Scroll through the abstract of sentences in each
document to gain an understanding of the differences between each document.
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Online
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