Semantic Search Technology Used by New Start-up

Big data startup, PureDiscovery, is offering an answer to outdated enterprise search technology. Brainspace can learn just about everything about how pieces of content are related to one another. That means users will become less dependent on searching for information because the platform will feed them what they want to know as they interact with other content.

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Enhanced Semantic Technology

Sprylogics International has announced the leveraging and enhancement on their existing patent pending technology base to build mobile search solutions that interpret what people are saying online and on their mobile phones.

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Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 10 (Taxonomies in SharePoint)

I hope this series on search has been helpful to users and professionals alike. Let’s close with a look at taxonomies in SharePoint. Let’s look at this data flow in another way. We have incoming information; going to dump into a repository. We need to add metadata to that repository. We want to add taxonomy terms. The taxonomy terms all need to be controlled or suggested. So, there’s a backend to do that. Once we have the data in that repository it could be exported to a SQL or a relational database, transactional system, for e-commerce. It might be put into a repository so that the full displays can be done. It might be loaded into a search system and you also might have a presentation layer for display.

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The Challenges of Search

Revising the search query in the world of search is not new news. When a user is looking for results, there is little patience with vague results. Much like Google’s millions of results confuses searchers and often wears them down from continuing the search.

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Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 9

As we continue the series on search, we are close to wrapping up with a more in-depth look behind the scenes of database management systems. Let’s take a quick look at behind the scenes. We want to connect the database management system to the thesaurus tool so that we can validate the terms and make sure that they are in good shape and, as people are adding records to the database, if they have any suggestions or candidates, we want to lock those in as well. The thesaurus tool will tell you which terms are actually correct, allow you to add, change, and delete, and otherwise manage the term base. Then the indexing is used to actually suggest indexing terms to records as they are loaded to the database management system. That system can be SharePoint, it could be a content management system, it could be a Documentum or a FileNet, or any other thing you want to use as a repository to manage your data. That is driven by the taxonomy.

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