Beyond the keywords: search engines getting smarter

Frédérique Segond, manager of parsing and semantics research at Xerox Research Centre Europe, who are responsible for the new FactSpotter search engine.

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June 22, 2007 Keyword-based search engines are a huge compromise; think for a moment about the tricks you need to use to get a good specific result from Google. The next generation of search is contextually and linguistically smarter, thinking more like a human and able to chase the meaning of a search term through a document instead of just looking for a handful of words. Xerox's new enterprise FactSpotter engine uses smart semantic and concept parsing to deliver quality search results from huge text databases.

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