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EBSCO Launches eBook Subscription
EBSCO Publishing has released their first subscription eBook collection – eBook Academic Subscription Collection™. The full-text eBooks cover a broad spectrum of academic subjects with the nearly 70,000 titles.
Read MoreNew Semantic Search Engine
A new semantic search engine that classifies and analyzes the meaning of text has been developed by NEC. Now users will be able to locate text related to a keyword by referencing keyword aspects, thus enabling a more dynamic search result.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 8
As we continue the series on search and how it works we are looking at file indexes more completely, more specifically complex inverted file indexes.
Stemming is the de-pluralization or removing the gerund endings. It is also called lemmatization. Truncation – left and right – are popular parts of search. Right, in some cases, chopping a word off at its end; is pretty easy. Left-hand truncation is hard because if you look at this wild card in the word ‘organization’ which can be spelled with either an ‘s’ or a ‘z’, depending on where you are from, the ‘-ation’ can be chopped off pretty easily but the right part, I have to build an entire index, starting with o, or, org, org, so that I can go through all of those to see where the full extension is. When people do left-hand truncation, it is a lot more expensive. It is a much bigger, additional index.
Read MoreSemantic Search Used in Discovery
PureDiscovery is combing their semantic discovery technology with LexisNexis® LAW PreDiscovery. This integration will help litigation discovery professionals find the most relevant documents faster than ever before. Semantic search technology allows the system to ‘learn’ as litigation documents are uploaded and searched. By applying the intelligence gathered to run smarter searches and help produce precise search results, the results will be much more comprehensive.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 7
This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Next let’s look at an inverted file index, let’s pretend that this is the outline of the presentation. I have Define Key Terminology, Thesaurus Tools, Functions, Features, Class, Construction of the Thesaurus etc in the figure below. You can see that the word “Thesaurus” is used three times here. I have a number of other words that you might focus on to see where they are. If I am going to take these and make them into an inverted file, the simple inverted file index is just going to take them and make them into an alphabetic list. So it will sort the high ASCII characters first – the special characters and the numbers – and then it will sort the rest of them alphabetically.
Read MoreThe Advances of Search
New developments in semantic search are popping up every day. This intelligence approach to finding what you want online quickly and easily has potentially huge implications for ecommerce.
Read More1940 Census Available Digitally
Archives.com and the National Archives have worked together and set up a site where the 1940 census will be made available digitally and free of charge beginning April 2. This ends a 72-year wait for the records.
Read MoreLeveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 6
This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works. Last week we ended with natural language processing and we are picking up this week on automatic language processing or ALP.
Read MoreUnderstanding Intention
Fact-Finder is a well-known semantic search guru that just went live on a German online travel agency. This recent international adventure was the brain-child of Carsten Kraus, Fact-Finder founder.
Read MoreSmart Search Equals Smart Content
Medical search engine and database tools aren’t all equal. Depending on your needs, a clinician could gain access to dynamic data to diagnose and treat patients must faster than ever before. One of these options is ClinicalKey, which is now in beta testing.
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