MyRoar: NLP Financial Information Centric Service
March 6, 2009
A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to MyRoar.com. This is a vertical search service that relies on natural language processing. I did some sleuthing and learned that François Schiettecatte joined the company earlier this year. Mr. Schiettecatte has a distinguished track record in search, natural language processing, and content processing. French by birth, he went to university in the UK and has lived and worked in the US for many years. Here’s what the company says about MyRoar.com:
In today’s current political and economic environment people have never had more questions. MyRoar helps people sort through the hype to find just the answers they are looking for. Extraneous information is eliminated, while saving hours of time or abandonment of search. We provide a fun new interface that keeps users up to date on current news, which helps them formulate the best questions to ask. MyRoar is a Natural Language Processing Question Answering Search Engine. Using integrated technologies we are able to offer high precision allowing users to ask questions relating to finance and news. MyRoar integrates proprietary Question Answer matching techniques with the best English NLP tools that span the globe.
You can use the system here. The system performed quite well on my test queries; for example, “What are the current financials for Parker Hannifin?” returned two results with the data I wanted. I will try to get Mr. Schiettecatte to participate in the Search Wizards Speak interview series. Give the system a whirl.
Stephen Arnold, March 6, 2009
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[…] on Stephen Arnold’s weblog: A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to MyRoar.com. This is a vertical search service that […]
Arnold, thank you for the shout-out. I joined MyRoar in October last year at CTO and got deeply involved in late November. Kate McDonough (the original founder) has been working on this longer than I have. Right now we are focused on building out the technology, getting new customers and raising funding. I look forward to participation on the Search Wizards Speak interview series.
François Schiettecatte
No problemo. I will ping you to be in Search Wizards Speak at http://www.arnoldit.com/search-wizards-speak
Stephen Arnold, March 8, 2009