Getting Started Videos

Sintelix Core Process

To get a better understanding of the Sintelix process and core concepts, view the Sintelix Core Process video.

MySintelix Portal

As a Sintelix user, you will have access to the My Sintelix portal where you can access a range of resources which include training videos, demonstration projects and videos, courses, certification tests, and our support ticketing system.

As a new user, we recommend you go through our Quickstart video training course that will show you the basics of using the system.

Training Videos

There are a range of training videos available, along with sample projects and video demonstrations, summarised below:

Introduces the Sintelix Training videos.

Explains how to access the Sintelix demo sites, which contain example projects.

Suggests a sequence of learning, from new users, beginners to intermediate and advanced videos.

Explains how to download sample projects and supporting files used during the training.

 

The quickstart course is for new Sintelix users, to help you get up to speed with key capabilities, and also let you familiarise yourself with core Sintelix functionality. It includes:

  • Starting a new project
  • Creating a new collection
  • Loading documents into a collection
  • Harvesting content from the web
  • Searching document collections
  • Creating networks
  • Identifying connections between entities
  • Analysing data on a timeline
  • Configuring Sintelix to automatically extract entities
  • Configuring Sintelix to automatically extract relationships
  • Creating a custom rule for harvesting web content

User essentials contains tutorials of frequently performed Sintelix tasks.

  • Manage projects
  • Collect and harvest data
  • Perform automatic entity extraction
  • Search collections
  • Monitor collections
  • Modify entity markup
  • Create networks
  • Analyse data

This course focuses on information extraction, including dictionaries and entity extraction scripts. It also provides some useful tips for dealing with common problems. Information extraction allows you to identify:

  • named entities (persons, organisations, locations)
  • ordinary entities (items of interest, clothing, affiliations)
  • relationships (relations, employment)
  • remarks (dates, times)
  • sentiment (positive, negative)

Provides exercises and examples to help you gain a deeper understanding about Sintelix and how to use specific configurations and tools.

The projects and PDF guides contain exercises and examples for:

  • Dictionaries
  • Entity Extraction Scripts
  • Network Creation
  • Search
  • Text Reference Refiner
  • Cluster Refiner
  • Document Editor
  • Taxonomies
  • Structured Classifiers
  • Network Table Views
  • Network Field Selections

Configuration examples are walk throughs showing how Sintelix is configured. These videos combine skills that you would have learned in the Quickstart and essentials courses.

The purpose of these training videos is to help you improve your configuration skills by showing the process of how configuration is performed to solve real extraction and analysis problems.

Examples include:

  • eBay product listing harvest and extraction
  • Hotel amenities comparison