Semantic Search Delivers
Ontology Systems is preparing to release a new version of their semantic search platform. Visitors to the Mobile World congress in Barcelona received a sneak preview of Project Rothko.
Internal Search Should Not Be Overlooked
Search and search strategy are common topics across the world of technology, retail, and the Internet. But what about on your own intranet? Much is said and written about search optimization for the external sites, but ensuring that your own staff can find information to serve your customers is just as important.
Don’t Lower Your Standards
Pingar recently introduced its beta Taxonomy Generator Service, which will enable enterprises to generate instant taxonomies from an analysis of the content on large internal document sets.
Inverted Files, Parsing, Discovery, and Clustering
Last time, I told you that inverted files and Boolean are basic to most or all search. So, what we have is the inverted file – that big alphabetical list of all the terms and where they came from – and a way to combine them. At the end of the day, no matter which direction you come from on the high end and even higher presentation levels, you are depending on these two to make it work. If you add that taxonomy to that, you are strengthening the use of your terms.
Kinds of Search
There are search systems that are advertised as keyword search. There are ones that say that they are Bayesian. There are ones that are Boolean. There are ones that are primarily ranking algorithms.
New Zealand Looks at Search Technology in a New Way
New search engine technology is now being used for external web sites of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in New Zealand. Locally-developed Syl offers client relationship management databases, information management system, global expert database, and Windows file share.
Social Search Expands
Sprylogics recently announced that its semantic search technology will be integrated into its chat and search application, 2ya for Facebook.
College Search Takes On New Technology
Choosing a college is daunting to every high school student looking to broaden their horizons and further their education. Now there is a new tool available to assist seekers in refining their searches using map search technology.
What Does the Future Hold for Search?
The act of search continues to evolve and grow as technology does the same. Semantic technology takes search to a new level. It demands that the software understand the information in the way it was intended. For software to comprehend the meaning behind what a human has put to text requires a certain amount of artificial intelligence.
Measuring Accuracy in Search
When people talk about how accurate the search is, there are lots of different ways to measure that. This list indicates some of the ways that we talk about measuring accuracy.