Excalibur integrates RetrievalWare with Netscape Server and Navigator 2.0.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1995--Excalibur Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ), the leading provider of software components for information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. , Wednesday announced the integration of its RetrievalWare(TM) Web Server with the Netscape(TM) Server family of products. The integration enables developers of World Wide Web sites to develop large-scale, high-performance applications which leverage the pattern recognition and semantic search Semantic Search attempts to augment and improve traditional Research Searches by leveraging XML and RDF data from semantic networks to disambiguate semantic search queries and web text in order to increase relevancy of results. capabilities of Excalibur in combination with the rich features and functionality of Netscape servers. Using the Netscape Server API, Excalibur has created a RetrievalWare module which can be loaded as a shared library into any Netscape server. This close integration offers several advantages over a CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. (common gateway interface) for high-volume Web applications. Excalibur also announced compatibility with Netscape Navigator(TM) 2.0, the latest version of Netscape's Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . "This announcement puts Excalibur at the forefront of providers of information retrieval tools for the World Wide Web," said Patrick Condo, president of Excalibur Technologies. "No other information retrieval company provides the flexibility of an HTTP server integration or our template-based CGI. "With our scalable client/server architecture, breakthrough retrieval accuracy and support for text, image and signal-based information, this is an unbeatable combination for creating world-class Web sites." "BTG BTG BIT (Built-In Test) Target Generator BTG Bridging the Gap BTG British Technology Group BtG Betreuungsgesetz (Germany) BTG Biomass Technology Group BV BTG Begbies Traynor Group chose Excalibur as its information retrieval solution for the World Wide Web for its accuracy, scalability and ease of integration," noted Brad Osborne, Imaging Division manager for BTG Inc., a leading systems integrator and value-added reseller to federal, state and local government organizations. "Excalibur's support for the Netscape server and browser products strengthens our own position as the Netscape Distributor to the United States Federal government." Excalibur Technologies Corp. meets the challenge of information retrieval, empowering end-users with the industry's most complete set of capabilities to find the information they need. Only Excalibur delivers both Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability (TM)) and semantic network searching, simultaneously leveraging the underlying patterns of digital information, and the actual meaning of words. Excalibur's RetrievalWare provides the first set of tools optimized for creating retrieval solutions for text, images and other forms of digital data. Excalibur was founded in 1980 and is a publicly held corporation trading under NASDAQ (EXCA). Contact Excalibur in North America at 619/625-7900, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, and on the World Wide Web at http HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. ://www.xrs.com. Excalibur Technologies Corp. and the Excalibur logo are registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. APRP and RetrievalWare are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. Netscape and Netscape Navigator are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corp. Other brands or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective organizations and should be treated as such. CONTACT: Excalibur Technologies Judith Feder, 619/625-7900 judy_feder@cq.com |
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