Excalibur raises the ante in Web searching with RetrievalWare Web Server.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) ) Tuesday introduced the Excalibur RetrievalWare Web Server, a major upgrade to its Web Server integration kit. Leveraging Excalibur's distributed and modular RetrievalWare architecture, the RetrievalWare Web Server is uniquely suited to enable users to exploit the massive volume of data the World Wide Web can deliver. It is the only Web search system which provides plain English Plain English (sometimes known, more broadly, as plain language) is a communication style that focuses on considering the audience's needs when writing. It recommends avoiding unnecessary words and avoiding jargon, technical terms, and long and ambiguous sentences. searching with breakthrough accuracy using the built-in word meanings and word relationships of the Excalibur Semantic Network (data) semantic network - A graph consisting of nodes that represent physical or conceptual objects and arcs that describe the relationship between the nodes, resulting in something like a data flow diagram. . In addition, it fully incorporates Excalibur's Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability ), providing not only exceptionally robust fuzzy text searching, but the ability to support Excalibur's growing family of image and signal retrieval servers. Excalibur's home page is at http://www.xrs.com. "Web sites and Web applications are proliferating, and rudimentary search methods such as browsing through menus of categories or entering key words are rapidly becoming obsolete," observed Patrick Condo, president of Excalibur. "With the RetrievalWare Web Server, developers of public and internal Web sites can empower their users with tools that truly mine the breadth and depth of content on the Web, today and into the future." The RetrievalWare Web Server supports very large-scale, distributed electronic publishing and enterprise applications. Unlike other World Wide Web search engines A Web site that maintains an index and short summaries of billions of pages on the Web, Google being the world's largest. Most search engine sites are free and paid for by advertising banners, while others charge for the service. , it deploys a dedicated front-end server. The advantages of this design are superior handling of large volumes of user queries, extensible functionality through integration with relational database, accounting and other systems, and support for a fully distributed Fully distributed A new stock issue that has been completely resold to the investing public and is no longer held by dealers. fully distributed Of or relating to a new issue of securities that has been sold out. , multiprocessor-based architecture. The RetrievalWare Web Server also provides an advanced 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) based upon templates and a macro language for creating HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. pages. This approach eliminates the need for users to master programming languages such as PERL in order to customize Web pages to their own look and feel. The RetrievalWare Web Server incorporates an integrated security server, a key requirement for corporate enterprise solutions. Its functionality is easily extended with the full range of RetrievalWare components. This includes the RetrievalWare Profiling Server, enabling Web applications to deliver the accuracy and ease of use of semantic networks to real-time information filtering. The RetrievalWare Web Server operates on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows/NT platforms and will be available for shipment in November, 1995. The RetrievalWare Web Server is priced at $12,500. About Excalibur Technologies 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 pattern-based 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). For more information, contact Excalibur in North America at 619/625-7900, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-44, and on the World Wide Web at http://www.xrs.com. -0- Excalibur Technologies Corp. and the Excalibur logo are registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. APRP and RetrievalWare are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. CONTACT: Excalibur Technologies Corp. Judith Feder, 914/328-2962, judy_feder@cq.com Darrell Atkin, 619/625-7900, datkin@excalib.com or Phase II Strategies Beth Johnson, 415/772-8419, beth_johnson@p2pr.com |
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