%0 Journal Article %T Herramienta inform¨¢tica para vigilancia tecnol¨®gica -VIGTECH-. %A V¨ªctor A. Bucheli G. %A Fabio A. Gonz¨¢lez O. %J Avances en Sistemas e Inform¨¢tica %D 2007 %I %X The paper presents a software tool for supporting techniology monitoring tasks. The tools allows to find cognitive and social relationships in a set of documents, which have been extracted from a reference database such as SCOPUS. Specifically, the tool the following activities: gathering of information from scientific documents, metadata extraction, descriptive statistics calculation, social network analysis, keyword network an¨¢lisis and visualization. the paper describes the conceptual bases that supported the development of the the tool, and describes its architecture and functionality. %K Society of knowledge %K technological monitoring %K machine learning applied to scientific documents %K social networks analysis %U http://pisis.unalmed.edu.co/avances/archivos/ediciones/Edicion%20Avances%202007%201/15.pdf