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RESOURCES FOR EVALUATING ENTERPRISE SEARCH TECHNOLOGIES
November 24, 2008

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LTU technologies Releases New LTU engine
Classifying lifestyle content
ADAM Software Launches ADAM SharePoint Connector
Hot Neuron Announces Version 2.0 of Clustify
AppSense Releases AppSense Management Suite 8.0
Digg Announces Next Digg Dialogg with Al Gore
Automatic categorization
From Russia with search
ebrary Launches QuickView
Content Analyst Announces Integration of dtSearch Engine
EBSCO Announces Music Research Resources
ProQuest Unveils Redesigned Website, New Archives
Independent News and Media Chooses Nstein

LTU technologies Releases New LTU engine

LTU technologies, a multimedia content control solutions provider, announced a new version of its LTU engine, a comprehensive platform that packages LTU’s suite of image, video content control, and search tools into one platform, using one single application programming interface (API). Designed for government agencies and commercial enterprise, LTU engine powers the technology to control, organize, search, or identify images and video within large databases. The platform also features new local matching and color search capabilities. Local matching enables the user to detect small, common parts between two images, or logos, within an image or video clip. Color search enables the user to sort and identify images according to various shades of color, compute color palettes for collections of objects or images, or suggest color arrangements based on the colors used within a collection.
 
(www.ltutech.com)

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Classifying lifestyle content

Scripps Networks has chosen a text-mining solution from Nstein Technologies to semantically analyze its immense library of lifestyle content. Scripps Networks owns and creates content for five home, food and lifestyle cable networks and Internet sites, including HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network (FLN) and Great American Country (GAC).

With its sites recording an average of more than 18.5 visitors per month, the SN (Scripps Networks) Digital team wanted to enhance the functionally of its search technology, and to create a taxonomy and thesauri based on the top terms searched. It chose Nstein to incorporate those foundational elements in its semantic analysis engine.

"All good search is based on the quality of the tags," says Michael Campbell, program manager of search for SN Digital. "Without proper tagging and a broad and deep tagging exercise, it really can’t be an optimal user experience."

As an example of the frustration users previously encountered, Campbell says, "The HGTV Dream Home is exceedingly popular, and is often a search term used by site visitors. But instead of always getting the most recent information and content, they could get something from years prior. Another example relates to our food sites, where terms like ‘dressing’ could related to salad dressing or stuffing and needs to provide both options. We want a search that gives users what they came to the site to find."

According to a recent press release from Nstein, its TME (Text Mining Engine) allows a combination of machine learning and business rules to automate much of the tagging with the highest degree of accuracy possible. Editors still have the ability to verify results, but the overall burden of manual tagging is greatly reduced, Nstein says.

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ADAM Software Launches ADAM SharePoint Connector

ADAM Software, a Digital Asset Management company, has launched the ADAM SharePoint connector, which extends the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) environment with ADAM functionality. Users experience ADAM’s digital asset management capabilities, together with the workflow and collaboration support provided by SharePoint, through the familiar user interface of the Microsoft Office System. The ADAM SharePoint connector exposes the ADAM retrieval functionality through SharePoint Web parts (SharePoint user interface elements), enabling users to retrieve assets from within ADAM through a guided search using the ADAM classification tree. This includes free text search on all the metadata available including IPTC, XMP, etc. The search works on all files, including audio, video, office documents.

(www.adamsoftware.net)

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Hot Neuron Announces Version 2.0 of Clustify

Hot Neuron LLC, an information retrieval software and services company, announced the release of version 2.0 of its Clustify document clustering software, featuring automatic document categorization, and other tools to help corporations and law firms explore and organize large document sets. Clustify automatically categorizes new documents based on the categories assigned to similar documents in the past. Documents that aren't sufficiently similar to previously categorized documents are put into clusters for manual processing. Other features added since version 1.0 include: keyboard shortcuts for manual categorization, the ability to drag and drop one document onto another to display a side-by-side comparison that highlights common text, options for greater control over the clustering process, and handling of additional file formats on Windows via the same IFilter technology that is used in Microsoft's search products. Clustify can generate concept-based clusters, or it can require documents in the same cluster to contain identical passages of text in order to detect near-duplicates.

(www.cluster-text.com)

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AppSense Releases AppSense Management Suite 8.0

AppSense, a provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise, announced the availability of AppSense Management Suite Version 8.0. This release includes Environment Manager 8.0, as well as upgrades to Application Manager and Performance Manager. AppSense technology enables corporate policy and personalization data, known as the ‘user personality’ to be abstracted from the desktop and managed independently. This personality can then be applied ‘on-demand’ to any user environment. AppSense Management Suite Version 8.0 consists of three products (Environment Manager, Application Manager and Performance Manager) that provide policy and personalization management, application entitlement, and resource control.

(www.appsense.com)

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Digg Announces Next Digg Dialogg with Al Gore

Digg has announced that the next Digg Dialogg guest will be former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Chairman of Current Media, Al Gore. Digg successfully kicked off Digg Dialogg with Nanci Pelosi at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Digg Dialogg gives the Digg community an opportunity to submit and vote up questions to be posed to individuals and leaders of the moment. These questions are unfiltered by editors or journalists, and represent the most popular questions as voted on by the community. On Wednesday, November 5th, Digg will open up Digg Dialogg for questions.

(www.digg.com)

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Automatic categorization

Hot Neuron has released Version 2.0 of its Clustify document clustering software, which automatic document categorization and other tools to help corporations and law firms explore and organize large document sets.

The company explains that Clustify groups related documents into clusters, allowing the user to explore the document set and categorize entire clusters of documents with a single mouse click. The addition of automatic categorization further leverages any manual labor put into categorization by automatically categorizing new documents based on the categories assigned to similar documents that were categorized in the past. Documents that aren't sufficiently similar to previously categorized documents are put into clusters for efficient manual processing.


Other new features include:

  • keyboard shortcuts for faster manual categorization,
  • the ability to drag and drop one document onto another to display a side-by-side comparison that highlights common text, and
  • options for greater control over the clustering process, and handling of many additional file formats on Windows via the same IFilter technology that is used in Microsoft's search products.
Further, says Hot Neuron, Clustify can generate concept-based clusters, or it can require documents in the same cluster to contain identical passages of text in order to detect near-duplicates (i.e. different revisions of the same document).

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From Russia with search

Quintura, a provider of site search solutions for online content publishers based near Moscow, Russia, has introduced several new features of Quintura Site Search designed to maximize user experience and performance and to enhance back-end analytics for publishing affiliates. New capabilities include:

  • search cloud in Adobe Flash--the Quintura search cloud has been enhanced with the Flash technology to create a more dynamic user experience.
  • search cloud customization--Web publishers can customize the Quintura search cloud on their site using new layout options and the ability to pre-populate the search cloud with desired search terms or content.
  • improved analytics--real time analytics for online editors, including queries, volume of results, term rankings and click-throughs. This data can now be further sorted using a term or date filter and can also be displayed graphically.

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ebrary Launches QuickView

ebrary, a provider of e-content software and services, announced the availability of ebrary QuickView, which enables end-users to view documents in many web browsers and on the iPhone. No software downloads or installations are needed. Currently offered in conjunction with ebrary’s new Java-based Reader, ebrary QuickView can be used to access and explore documents in the ebrary system such as e-books, maps, journals, and reports. An end-user can also choose to use ebrary’s Java-based Reader. ebrary QuickView currently offers the following features: viewing and page flipping in a web browser, relevancy ranking at the chapter level with links to specific sections, navigating to search terms or specified pages, searching within documents for key words, and navigating to highlights and notes created using an ebrary Reader. ebrary offers several viewing options including Java-based Reader with QuickView and ActiveX Reader.

(www.ebrary.com)

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Content Analyst Announces Integration of dtSearch Engine

Content Analyst Company, a provider of advanced text analysis software for the document management, legal, and intelligence communities, and dtSearch Corp., a supplier of enterprise and developer text retrieval software, will announce the integration of the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine into Version 3.3 of CAAT, Content Analyst’s text analytics software platform. The new release embeds the dtSearch Engine for Windows/Linux cross-platform native 64-bit full-text searching. CAAT 3.3 supports cross-lingual categorization and provides users with a categorization "self-test." The new SharePoint connector allows CAAT 3.3 users to analyze and search unstructured information in SharePoint repositories. New optional filters include an OCR filter and email filters. dtSearch products can index over a terabyte of data in a single index. The software offers over two dozen search options, including Unicode support. A built-in Spider supports searching of local and remote, public and secure dynamic and static web data, with WYSIWYG hit-highlighted display of web-ready data. The dtSearch Engine API supports .NET, Java, C++, SQL, etc., including native 64-bit Windows/Linux support.

(www.contentanalyst.com, www.dtsearch.com)

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EBSCO Announces Music Research Resources

EBSCO Publishing has released the RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 (RISM), as well as the Index to Printed Music, (IPM). RISM, which indexes musical sources, is a resource for music researchers and historians while IPM offers researchers and students access to individual pieces of printed music that are provided within scholarly literature. RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 contains bibliographic records of music manuscripts written after 1600 and up to 1800. The records include information in standard bibliographic categories as well as graphical images of over 780,000 music incipits, which can be viewed as musical scores. The goal of the database is to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections. RISM is put together by the International Inventory of Musical Sources — an international, non-profit joint venture based in Germany that documents what materials exist and where they are stored.
 
(www.ebscohost.com)

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ProQuest Unveils Redesigned Website, New Archives

ProQuest has launched a redesigned website that gathers information on ProQuest brands and products and enhances discovery with search capabilities and tools. The redesigned site is the result of librarian and user feedback, testing, and focus groups. Among the key features of new site are the ProQuest Support Center, a search engine, and an all-new product access feature that directs end-users to library gateways.With a virtual decision-tree, the Support Center allows users to diagnose and fix problems.

Also, major works by American playwright David Mamet are available online for the first time through Twentieth-Century Drama from ProQuest. Resources include a complete biography and criticism of his work. Twentieth-Century Drama now contains 1,700 plays by more than 170 different authors. ProQuest also announced that the full backfile of The Spectator from 1828 to 2000 will be made available to academic, public, government and corporate libraries exclusively as part of Periodicals Archive Online Collection 7, early in 2009. Digitizing The Spectator’s entire backfile and including it in Periodicals Archive Online will allow it to be cross-searched alongside humanities and social science academic journals.

(www.proquest.com, www.cambridgeinformationgroup.com)
 

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Independent News and Media Chooses Nstein

Nstein Technologies Inc., a provider of digital publishing solutions for newspapers, magazines, and online content providers, announced that the Independent News and Media (UK) Ltd has selected Nstein’s Text Mining Engine (TME) solution to semantically tag and organize its library of media assets. TME is the foundation and a component of Nstein’s Digital Publishing Suite also including Web Content Management Solution (WCM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), and Picture Management Desk (PMD). The international media chain owns paper and radio stations on four continents. With Nstein’s TME, Independent News and Media’s news articles will be semantically analyzed and automatically given content tags, enabling better search engine optimization.

(www.nstein.com)

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