GovText
Discover GovText, a Natural Language Processing-based text analytics platform that analyses textual data to help users understand the contents better.
Last updated 28 April 2025
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Enabling efficient analyses of textual data with GovText
GovText is a government platform that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyse textual data for public officers.
Analyse large amounts of textual data efficiently, identify key topics in text using topic modelling and generate summaries of text documents.
Access specific tools like Hansard Analysis and IM8 Q&A for drafting replies and policy understanding, and experiment with alpha tools like feedback clustering and sentiment analysis.
Accessible via Whole-of-Government credentials.
Public officers often handle and process large amounts of textual data. Analysing and using this information for their daily tasks can be time-consuming.
GovText, a text Natural Language Processing (NLP) platform, was introduced to help officers work more effectively and efficiently. It helps them analyse text by finding important information using methods like topic modelling and Large Language Models (LLMs) for drafting and finding information.
Why use GovText?
GovText provides a variety of text analysis services through web portal tools and a model hosting platform, which can be accessed by government agencies.
1. General text analysis
Topic Modelling
Uncover hidden topics
A statistical technique will study the text and highlight different themes.
Understand the topic models better
Results are presented through visualisations and an interactive dashboard for easier understanding.
Know what the key topics are
You'll get to see the different topics, as well as the weightage that's given to them.
Summarisation
Abstractive Summarisation
Key points are paraphrased into a short and coherent paragraph for quick and effective reading.
Extractive Summarisation
The most important sentences from an article are stacked together to create a summary.
Improved efficiency and time saving
Speed up your reading and digesting of information with this feature.
2. Productivity tools
Hansard Analysis Tool
Public officers can get information from the Official Reports of the Parliament of Singapore to draft replies to parliamentary questions and speeches.
IM8 Q&A Tool
Public officers can understand IM8 policies by searching relevant IM8 clauses and documents, and generating a summarised answer to their questions.
3. Alpha tools
These are ongoing experimental tools that officers can try out on the platform, such as feedback clustering and sentiment analysis.
How to use GovText?
Visit the GovText website and log in with your Whole-of-Government credentials to get started. Refer to the user guide and demo videos for help on how to use the platform.
What's the latest on GovText?
Users can look forward to new document drafters, Q&A tools, and more LLM platform services to come.
