Enterprise Search

Search solutions are ubiquitous these days, but modern search systems can take advantage of advanced semantic extraction and name matching capabilities offered by NetOwl to provide key new functionality to end-users.

Semantic-based Faceted Search

Semantic-based faceted search is a popular search capability to navigate a large amount of text data effectively. It enables discovery of new information as well as search refinement based on how documents are enriched according to a variety of semantic dimensions. When using NetOwl’s entity extraction and event extraction, users can navigate the enterprise data through NetOwl’s built-in semantic concepts such as people, places, organizations, and events. NetOwl’s categorization, on the other hand, allows classification of text data using the semantic topics specific to the enterprise by training NetOwl with its own semantic categories.

Easy Integration with Leading Search Engines

Leading search platforms, including both commercial products like MarkLogic and open source platforms like Elasticsearch and Solr, all support the creation of facet indexes. The facet indexes themselves can be exposed to end-users in any number of ways through end-user facing interfaces. NetOwl supports the Elasticsearch and MarkLogic engines out-of-the-box by providing compatible output formats.

Geospatially-oriented Search

In addition to semantic extraction and categorization, NetOwl’s Smart Geotagging capabilities can be leveraged to build a geospatial index of the places mentioned in texts as well as the semantic events or other entities linked to those geo-locatable places. This allows the enterprise search to provide users the ability to search and analyze documents geospatially using a map or other GIS components.

Intelligent Name Search

In some applications, enterprise search functionality is challenged by many different spellings of person and organization names due to misspellings, transliteration variations, nicknames, or other reasons. This makes finding all relevant documents for those entities extremely difficult. Search applications that leverage NetOwl’s name matching capabilities can present users with possible name variants and allow them to select specific name variants to be included in their searches. The users no longer need to list all the possible name variations manually in their queries.