Semantic Technology Used in Police Data Search

July 25, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Semantic Technology Used in Police Data Search

New Zealand Police have embraced semantic search technology in their three 24×7 contact centers. The search engine technology was developed locally by Wellington-based software company Syl Semantics.

Computer World brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “NZ Police deploy semantic search technology.” New Zealand Police have recently implemented a new content management system, which necessitated a new specialist search component to enhance that system’s overall performance.

This new technology has improved search efficiency when compared to generic enterprise tools with a search component. The engine’s semantic design delivers smarter search capability by providing contextual results.

This is all achieved through the use of semantic technologies and natural language processing techniques like entity extraction, semantic graph creation, disambiguation, and clustering to process massive volumes of unstructured data.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.