Concept Searching’s conceptClassifier for SharePoint Improving Search Outcomes

March 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Concept Searching a leader in developing automatic conceptual metadata generation, automated classification, and taxonomy management software improves findability and search results in SharePoint search, FAST for Internet Business, and FAST for SharePoint 2010.  

Search alone often presents end users with overwhelming results that may or may not be what they are seeking.  Even advanced search capabilities fall far short in retrieving relevant information.  It is estimated that 85 percent of relevant documents are never retrieved in a search.  As enterprise portals are burgeoning under the daily additions of unstructured information the amount of documents retrieved in a search is also increasing substantially.  The end user is left to sort through a myriad of information resulting in lost productivity and increased organizational costs.  conceptClassifier for SharePoint delivers not only the industry’s only classification technology in the world that uses automatic concept extraction and semantic metadata generation, but also delivers features to dramatically improve search in a SharePoint environment.

conceptClassifier for SharePoint will automatically generate conceptual metadata as content is created or ingested.  Using the unique concept extraction technology, Concept Searching’s statistical engine can understand, out-of-the-box, the incremental value of keywords, multi-word fragments, and compound terms and as a result identify concepts resident within an organization’s own information repositories that are highly correlated to particular topics.  With the identification of these highly correlated topics in the form of keywords, multi-word fragments and compound terms the result is automatically generated metadata that is unique to that particular organization’s corpus of information.  By weighting compound terms (multi-word phrases) instead of single words used in isolation, and placing them in the search engine index, the knowledge workers search and retrieval experience is significantly improved.

Taxonomy navigation capabilities have been proven to reduce search time by 35 percent to 48 percent, offering organizations a substantial savings in time. Taxonomy browse capabilities are easily implemented in all Microsoft search products.  This feature provides users the ability to search via the taxonomy nodes to more readily find the information they are seeking, and find relevant information that may not have in been contained in their search string.  

Organizations are focused on improving search outcomes.  Typically organizations will have one (or more) search engines and will change their search engine expecting higher accuracy and relevancy, without success.  It isn't about which search engine you use.  More and more organizations are focusing on the metadata problem as the crux of the problem.  Relying on end users to accurately and consistently determine the metadata to be applied has been unsuccessful and directly impacts the ability to retrieve relevant information during the search process.  Metadata generation, classification, and taxonomies go hand-in-hand with improving search and this more comprehensive approach is rapidly being understood and adopted.  conceptClassifier for SharePoint effectively addresses the problem and delivers relevant and precise results based on concepts within the content.

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Founded in 2002, Concept Searching’s software products deliver conceptual metadata generation, auto-classification, and powerful taxonomy management from the desktop to the enterprise. Concept Searching is the only statistical metadata generation and classification software company in the world that uses concept extraction and compound term processing to significantly improve access to unstructured information. The Concept Searching Microsoft SharePoint suite of products run natively in SharePoint 2007 and 2010, FAST, Windows Server 2008 R2 FCI, and in Microsoft Office applications. Headquartered in the U.K. with offices in the U.S. and South Africa, Concept Searching solves the problem of finding, organizing, and managing information capital. For more information about Concept Searching’s solutions and technologies please visit http://www.conceptsearching.com.