Re: [ontolog-forum] Commercial semantic search offerings

[Duane Nickull <dnickull@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve:

We wrote and publicly lunched such a system in 1998 whereby searchers were given a two phase set of results.  I believe it was heralded as the first true XML Search engine which made use of XML’s hierarchy to present back a path.  It came with an SDK to link it up to semantic topics by using xPath expressions equating to semantics in context.

The system was called GoXML and I may be able to still get a copy of the code base as it is not being used currently.

Here is how it worked.

1. A searcher searched for a term like “Rocky”
2. The index retrieved a list of “contexts” in which the term appeared.  It might look something like this:
   

Results sets:

     1.   //purchaseOrder/BuyerPerty/FirstName
     2.  //Geography/roads/descriptions
     3.  //Entertainment/Movies/1980s/Rocky4
     etc.

It was always envisioned that these could be aliased to an ontological set of concepts

4. From there, the user selected their context and it could either presented a set of results or the capability to dig deeper into specific semantics.

Please contact me if you are interested in testing this system and I’ll see if I can set the code.

Duane




On 23/05/08 8:02 PM, "Steve Ray" <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I got a call the other day from someone looking to buy a semantic search capability that could incorporate context and meaning as well as word match. Since things seem to be progressing pretty rapidly these days, I thought I would check with this community to inquire as to what people thought were recommended systems.
 
(Recognizing that I should probably be at Semtech 2008 if I wanted first-hand information. Maybe someone on this list just got back from it?)
 
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