U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Selects Convera for New Web-Based Initiative; RetrievalWare Search Technology Provides Fast, Accurate Access to Public Documents Archive.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2003 Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ) today announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent U.S. government commission, created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and charged with licensing and regulating civilian use of nuclear energy to protect the public and the environment. (NRC NRC abbr. 1. National Research Council 2. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Noun 1. NRC - an independent federal agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants ) is using Convera's RetrievalWare(R) search, retrieval and categorization technology as part of a newly launched web-based initiative designed to simplify the process of searching for and accessing documents in its Publicly Available Records System (PARS) library. RetrievalWare is helping to advance the NRC's electronic government (e-gov) activities by providing agency stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. access to more than 200,000 full text publicly available documents in the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS is an information system that provides access to all documents made public by the NRC since November 1, 1999, as well as documents from the regulatory activities of the former Atomic Energy Commission Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), former U.S. government commission created by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 and charged with the development and control of the U.S. atomic energy program following World War II. . ADAMS contains the full-text of regulatory and technical documents and reports written by NRC, NRC contractors, or NRC licensees. Documents include NRC Regulatory Guides, NUREG NUREG US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulation series reports, correspondence, Inspection Reports, and others, all searchable and accessible from the NRC Website. Users of the Web-based interface include both NRC staff and the general public. The latter group, served by the Public Document Room (PDR PDR A trademark for Physicians' Desk Reference, a group of reference books containing drug listings, especially one for prescription drugs. PDR ), may include engineers and other technical professionals, information brokers, and representatives of utilities, the nuclear industry, law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
Prior to the installation of RetrievalWare, users needed to download special software. NRC staff members and the public now can access RetrievalWare's advanced search features directly from their desktops, (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html) without having to install additional software. The new ADAMS Web-based search and retrieval interface, powered by RetrievalWare, offers the following features: -- "Relevancy ranking" locates the "best" (most relevant) documents and brings them to the top of the search results list -- "Natural language queries" eliminate the need for users to master structured search languages to find needed information -- "Hit Highlighting" identifies key words or phrases in the text of a document. -- An "Already Seen" indicator identifies documents that the user has already viewed in the listed search results -- The "More Like" search allows users to refine and optimize a search by narrowing the list of matching documents to those that are similar to an especially relevant document found in the initial search results. In addition to the basic ability to search for documents containing a text phrase, the interface enables users to perform more advanced searches using three kinds of queries: -- A "concept search" expands the user-specified search terms to include related terms using 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. dictionaries and thesauri instead of limiting the search to exact matches for words in the query. This allows the Web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. interface to find a far more complete set of responses than would otherwise be expected in a traditional Boolean search A search for specific data. It implies that any condition can be searched for using the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT. For example, the English language request: "Search for all Spanish and French speaking employees who have MBAs would be expressed as follows. . -- A "pattern search" expands the user-specified search terms to include words that are spelled similarly, and then matches those terms against documents in ADAMS. This type of search is useful when the search terms include words with difficult or variant spellings or "dirty" text produced by optical character recognition. -- A "Boolean search" matches the exact user-specified search terms against the documents in the ADAMS library. This is a traditional method of searching for documents and can be used with the Boolean operators ("AND," "OR," "NOT," among others) in the search statement to control matching. About the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Public Document Room The mission of NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) is to help the public find and obtain NRC information in the agency's extensive electronic, paper, and microfiche Pronounced "micro-feesh." A 4x6" sheet of film that holds several hundred miniaturized document pages. See micrographics. collections. The PDR is staffed by technical reference librarians. The PDR's holdings are focused on unclassified un·clas·si·fied adj. 1. Not placed or included in a class or category: unclassified mail. 2. documents related to the NRC's licensing and rulemaking activities, as well as documents from the regulatory activities of the former Atomic Energy Commission. The PDR currently has about 2.6 million documents in paper, microfiche and electronic formats. The NRC's mission is to regulate the Nation's civilian use of byproduct by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. Noun 1. , source, and special nuclear materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment. The NRC's scope of responsibility includes regulation of commercial nuclear power plants; research, test, and training reactors; fuel cycle facilities; medical, academic, and industrial usages of nuclear materials; and the transport, storage, and disposal of nuclear materials and wastes. About Convera's RetrievalWare RetrievalWare is a high-performance multimedia, cross- and multi-lingual search system that allows broad flexibility and scalability for implementation across corporate intranets and extranets. RetrievalWare enables users to index and search a wide range of distributed information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. , including text, video, image and audio files, HTML, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , over 200 proprietary document formats (such as word processors and publishing systems), relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. tables, document management systems, and groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. repositories. Advanced search capabilities that can be used independently or interactively to enable the highest levels of accuracy include concept and keyword searching, pattern searching, and query-by-example. RetrievalWare excels in distributed client/server environments with thousands of users, documents, images, and/or multiple media assets. About Convera Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages. More than 800 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and more. For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com. This release, including any statements from Convera personnel, contains statements about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans, and prospects, as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. 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These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements. This press release should not be construed as an endorsement by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Convera or its products or services. The Convera design logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera: Convera(R), RetrievalWare(R), and Screening Room(R). The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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