IDOL uses its patented pattern-matching technology to form a conceptual and contextual understanding of all content, independent of language or format, thereby enabling searches to be performed conceptually. Since conceptual search can find information based on words not located in the document, it does not fall prey to the limitations of legacy methods. In addition to the traditional search performed by entering a few terms.
Advanced Conceptual Retrieval
IDOL solutions offer higher degrees of accuracy and sophistication, using a scalable technology that recognizes concepts. Putting information into context, this unique IDOL differentiator provides powerful conceptual retrieval features, including:
Natural Language Retrieval
IDOL accepts sample data as input (a sentence, paragraph or page of text, or the derived contextual information of an audio or speech snippet) and returns references to conceptually related documents ranked by relevance or contextual distance.
Query By Example
Users can submit sample data as input and IDOL returns references to conceptually related documents ranked by relevance or contextual distance.
Refine By Example
Users have the ability to refine by example. Based on the results of a natural language query, users can quickly refine their search by selecting refined examples to precisely focus on the context they require.
Relevance Ranking
In evaluating all types of queries, IDOL employs complex algorithms based on a combination of Information Theory and Bayesian methods to automatically weight and rank documents by statistical relevance. In doing so, it makes use of theoretic values calculated dynamically for all concepts on indexing, allowing the relevance of content to be evaluated. In practice, relevance can be seen as a measure of the conceptual overlap between the query text and the text within a document. Additionally, IDOL allows administrators to manipulate the relevance of query results in several ways:
Setting up a field process - users modify IDOL's configuration file, raising the percentage relevance of results according to the number of times that terms in specified fields match the terms in the query
Using BIAS - users can employ the BIAS field specifier to dynamically boost the percentage relevance of a query's results according to the numerical proximity of a specified field to a given value
Using Multipliers - users can multiply the weights of individual query terms in order to boost the relevance of results that match these terms accordingly
Key Benefits
Improves user experience by ordering search results in formats that better match expectations better
Relevance can be customized by administrators to suit business needs and employee roles
Properly implemented relevancy ranking can result in productivity gains and cost savings
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Summary: ...El Mundo case study. These automatic hyperlinks point to conceptually related items and alert site visitors to similar information they would also like. In addition to this, suggested further query terms are automatically generated to further refine the user’s results, all based on the meaning contained...
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Summary: ...results is tuned for both the user’s context and the firm’s content. The solution also provides the ability to quickly refine the searches based on a host of criteria, as well as concepts embedded in the content, such as jurisdiction or area of law. Going into this project, DLA had a rich, firm-wide...
Summary: ...in the system simultaneously, regardless of format or repository, including rich-media such as audio or video files. In order to overcome the challenge of duplicate data, it would also need to be able to identify links between related data based on more than a simple keyword match. Finally the system...
Summary: ...that evaluated as many as 15 different software solutions before the company decided on IDOL K2. IDOL K2’s automatic classification capabilities are also vital. IDOL K2’s easily modified business rules ensure all new and updated editorial content accurately populates the logical topic areas. In InfoMedia’s...
Summary: ...Optus Success with Microsearch and Autonomy an HP Company. Solution Highlights • Capability to rank results based on contextual relevance and popularity. • Capability to promote products and services. • Capability to direct users to the right channel based on context. • Capability to augment default...
Summary: ...or what Autonomy calls “workers,” that connect to the Ultraseek search engines in operation across IDG sites so that one query can search all of them. Results from each source are then dynamically merged and re-ranked for relevancy, while duplicate hits are eliminated. Visitors can refine or expand...
Summary: ...IMR Alchemy Gold image archiving and retrieval system for storage of the original images. Today the surveys are scanned in to TeleForm, which automatically determines which of the over 600 American Express form templates matches the processed forms. Next, using a patented multiple-engine recognition technology,...
Summary: ...Scotiabank uses Scrittura Automatic Confirmations to match barcodes and document identifiers, as well as Digital Signing which allows users to stamp confirmed trades with electronic signatures and store signatures in the system. Figure 1 - Sample Scrittura Document Template Automated Regulatory Publishing...
Summary: ...BAE Systems - The right information to the right people in real time - Case Study. And it automatically alerts BAE SYSTEMS employees to documents in the system that relate to what they're doing, or to other employees in the company whose interests and expertise match their own. BAE SYSTEM’S CEN Clustering....
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Summary: ...Example Users can submit sample data as input and the system returns references to conceptually related documents. • Refine By Example Based on the results of the natural language retrieval, users can quickly refine their search to precisely focus on the context they require. • Cross-Language Search...
Summary: ...or storage location, and can perform advanced operations on that information in real-time. IUS accepts search input in simple human friendly forms like sample data, sentences and returns results to conceptually related documents ranked by relevance. Unlike traditional search engines that only search and...
Summary: ...or storage location, and can perform advanced operations on that information in real-time. IUS accepts search input in simple human friendly forms like sample data, sentences and returns results to conceptually related documents ranked by relevance. Unlike traditional search engines that only search and...
Summary: ...Intelligent Universal Search - Autonomy Product Brief. IUS accepts search input in simple, human-friendly forms like sample data and returns results to conceptually related documents ranked by relevance to help people utilize their company’s wealth of knowledge. As a result, IUS increases the speed...
Summary: ...combine Boolean and Proximity operators to form simple or complex Boolean expressions Parametric search Users can search for items by certain field values. When they provide fixed values in parametric fields, the parametric search returns consistent values in the non-fixed parametric fields. For example,...
Summary: ...170 patents, IDOL offers higher degrees of accuracy and sophistication using a scalable technology that recognizes concepts. Since conceptual search can find information based on words not located in the document, it does not fall prey to the limitations of legacy methods. Full XML Support IDOL allows...
Summary: ...Autonomy PiB 4.3 08/03. The Retrieval Portlet submits the natural language query to one or more databases that have been set up, in order to find documents that are related to your query. The concept of the query is analyzed and documents that are relevant to this concept are returned to the user. • Legacy...
Summary: ...improve elements of the campaign to attract the greatest value audience. Autonomy’s bid management system is unparalleled. We determine the most effective bid and match type across all engines and automatically place and refine bids based on performance. Autonomy’s solution allows marketers to analyze...
Summary: ...all aspects of the matching process directly within the application: • Barcodes with trade and document identifiers are attached to all confirmations in order to automatically match incoming documents against existing trades. • A powerful search engine can precision query unmatched trades on almost...
Summary: ...gas and electricity in familiar word processing environments without formatting diffculties or loss of document control n Resolving trade discrepancies through auditable trade annotations, precision queries on unmatched trades, and barcodes that automatically match returned documents against existing...
Summary: ...and an overall more effective approach to risk management. Policies can be based on concepts, keywords, Boolean rules or a combination of all three. They can also be created using existing documents or records as a sample, training the system to flag any content that is similar in context to the communications...
Summary: ...of the structured query that limits traditional database technologies, and relate n-dimensional structured objects to one another conceptually, even where no direct field match exists or when they belong to entirely different databases. For instance, if we have two distinct databases with data representing...
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Summary: ...query-by-example, BIAS and many more. One example of an IDOL operator that is not offered in standard database search is BIAS, which allows the user to easily modify the relevancy calculation by giving more weight to a specified field. Given a movie database with title, director, lead actors, year, genre...
Summary: ...in any language and any format, wherever it is stored. Search options include: Conceptual Search, Natural Language Retrieval, Query By Example, Refine By Example and Cross-Language Search. The technology retrieves and returns references to conceptually related information and results are presented with...
Summary: ...functionality to meet their business objectives. IDOL functionality includes: 1.2.1 Automated content operations ? Concept matching & retrieval IDOL offers higher degrees of accuracy and sophistication, using a scalable technology that recognizes concepts. This unique Autonomy differentiator provides...
Summary: ...Transitioning to a new Era of Human Information. MapReduce is a software framework that allows relatively finegrained control of how calculations can be performed on large data sets via a large number of computers. The “Map” step takes the input, divides it into smaller sub-problems, and distributes...
Summary: ...process • Weight of every field can be manipulated • User feedback used to calculate relevancy and primacy • Recently added features include: • Query bread-crumbing/Audit • Real-time validation sampling • Defensibility reporting • Intent-based ranking • Social media scoring New Enhancements...
Summary: ...conceptual profile of each user based on both explicit profiles (agents) and implicit profiles (click thru and submission), automatic profiling avoids the need for explicit input of any form from the user and delivers options for identifying and managing expertise and collaboration. ? Community & collaboration...
Summary: ...data with several Word documents and PDFs of 100 pages or more. Unbeknownst to the vendor, you must ensure that a query found on page 90-100 actually matches and returns these documents. This will force a vendor to search and index documents in their entirety, rather than limit retrieval to a reduced...
Summary: ...for SharePoint High-Speed Conceptual Search Built on a unique pattern-recognition technology, IDOL’s conceptual query mechanism allows a seemingly simple query expression to be evaluated in complex ways; as well as the matching of the basic terms within documents, it is able to “read between the lines”...
Summary: ...workings and underlying theory. Autonomy’s approach is based on a unique combination of technologies with theoretical underpinnings that can be traced to Bayesian Inference and Claude Shannon¹s Principle of Information. Bayes Theorem has become a central tenet of modern statistical probability modeling....
Summary: ...with a search query 20 times a second, leading not only to collapse of the SharePoint servers under the weight of queries, but subsequently poor search performance, as a results list cannot be accurately compiled until all repositories have generated results and the multiple rankings have been compiled....
Summary: ...capture and classify content based on this precedence. IDOL can also suggest a classification scheme based on similar concepts that exist within the enterprise data landscape. It can then continue to refine and “learn” from user behavior. The resulting refined knowledge is then made available to the...
Summary: ...it easier to follow up or modify past designs, or can explicitly take advantage of past history, are preferable. While it is possible to manipulate pre-planned designs to approximate such augmentation, these objectives can be met more precisely when using optimal designs. The ability to follow up in a...
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