The advanced search functionality available with EOS.Web Enterprise includes natural language searching, the ability to deal with spelling variations, similar word forms, and semantic relationships.

Semantic Network technology is concept-driven, translating user requests into complete searches for all relevant and related concepts. With its 500,000 word dictionary and 1.6 million word relationship database, the semantic network pinpoints all relevant meanings without requiring users to think of every possible way of expressing their idea. Broad support for the major business languages provides a global solution that multi-lingual applications require. Not only can you deliver search results for documents in a specific language when queried in that same language, but you can also deliver cross-lingual search results or relevant documents in many different languages from a query in one language.

Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (APRP) uses pattern recognition to find relevant information even when the word is misspelled by the searcher or where there are legitimate spelling differences.

Natural language queries, such as “what is the best selling stock on the NASDAQ over the last year” provide additional terms that are used to qualify the search, resulting in greater recall and precision. Advanced search solutions that employ natural language querying make searching easier by allowing your users to phrase queries the same way they speak: in plain everyday language.

Concept searching relieves you of determining in advance what the “right” keywords must be to get relevant results from your search. Concept searching puts your search request in context so the true meaning of your request is considered, not just the words. That means when you search for “army tanks”, the concept search considers the words around it. When it sees military or vehicle it will give higher weight to those instances and return them at the top of the list.

Concept searching also has a built in dictionary returning instances that contain synonyms for your search words. For example, you might ask for “international commerce.” When your search engine utilizes concept search techniques, you will also get documents that discuss “foreign trade.”

Once a record is displayed, the user can highlight a word or heading and the system will perform text-mining on the desired word, phrase, or heading, eliminating the need to enter a new search. If there are links from a bibliographic record to images, audio, video, programs, URLs or full-text documents, the user will be able to link to this material directly.