Desarrollo de una herramienta de evaluación de proximidad de información para Vigilancia Estratégica

Abstract

Nowadays, information overload leads managers to not properly use the relevant information they collect in Strategic Scanning processes. This information is usually presented in the form of small pieces of text that are scattered in terms of time, language, and sources; and that they must be linked to allow an adequate analysis. Since the characteristics mentioned generally prevent identifying connections in the information collected, in the present project we implemented a tool to address this problem through the use of topic analysis techniques. The resulting tool provides a quick-read interface, in which the proximity relationship between several texts can be observed and “constellations” of related texts can be easily visualized. We compare the developed tool with two existing proximity measurement and grouping mechanisms, obtaining results that show that our tool stood out in terms of execution time and relevance of results.