Cognition Upgrades Its Meaning-Based Search
April 17, 2008
Culver City, California’s Cognition Technologies, Inc. has released Semantic NLP. “NLP” is short hand for “natural language processing”. The idea is that a search system understands a user’s query. No Boolean statements or formal search syntax is required to obtain an answer or a result list from the system.
The company told Beyond Search:
[Our] engineers have crafted a technology which is “the next evolution” in search. That remains to be proven, but Cognition, like a number of rich text processing companies have jumped into advanced search with verve. However, compared to other search newcomers, Cognition has uniquely solved one of the biggest hurdles toward increased precision and recall and understanding the meaning of user queries and the searched content. Through this understanding it is able to resolve both the ambiguity and synonymy of the English language.
The company says that Semantic NLP understands words and phrases in enterprise and Web content. A demonstration of some of the Cognition system’s functions are available here. Registration is required.
The company is the subject of an in-depth profile in Beyond Search: What to Do When Your Enterprise Search System Won’t Work, published in April 2008 by the Gilbane Group. This study identified 24 vendors whose technology illustrates next-generation search and content processing features.
Additional information about the firm is available at its Web site or by writing learnmore at cognition.com.
Stephen Arnold, April 17, 2008
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