Sense Engine.Crystal Semantics has developed the 'Sense Engine' in order to produce relevant search results by utilising the senses of words, rather than statistical algorithms used by other search technology. Because any word in the English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. can be part of a search enquiry, each word is analysed to determine its potential to discriminate which context the search should cover. The 'Sense Engine' identifies all the likely search words, advises the user of the different contexts the search should cover, and categorises the results encyclopedically providing users with results relevant to their request. The 'Sense Engine' is the result of a six-year search linguistics development programme undertaken by Professor David Crystal Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales, and Liverpool, England where he attended St Mary's College from 1951. , a world authority on linguistics, encyclopedia editor and published author for Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). and Penguin Books. L4 million has been invested in lexicographical lex·i·cog·ra·phy n. The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary. [lexico(n) + -graphy. and encyclopedic en·cy·clo·pe·dic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia. 2. Embracing many subjects; comprehensive: "an ignorance almost as encyclopedic as his erudition" research, giving the' Sense Engine a classification system of around 2,000 categories derived from an encyclopedia component of over five million words. Using the 'Sense Engine' users will be able to easily refine their searches to retrieve information that they actually want. For example, a typical search for the word 'depression' can return results that relate to mental health, climate, economics, geography, etc, and results will not even be grouped in any logical order. Therefore, if the user is only interested in results in relation to climate they still have spend significant time filtering the other results or expanding their search. In contrast the 'Sense Engine' automatically categorises the various senses of 'depression' and shows them to the user, allowing them to simply refine the search and only see results relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc 'economic depression! for instance. The 'Sense Engine' has immediate applications for corporate/consumer search and navigation on intranet and internet sites, such as classification of documents, online contextual advertising Contextual advertising is the term applied to advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile phones, where the advertisements are selected and served by automated systems based on the content displayed by the user. and e-commerce. www.crystalsemantics.com |
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