Sophia Search Comes to the US
May 31, 2012
The Digital Librarian has reached our shores, Northern Ireland’s Sync Ni announces in “Sophia Search Discovers US Market.” Sophia Search now has several US publishing customers, including Random House, who use their newest innovation Digital Librarian to better understand the interests of their online customers. Writer Lauren McCoy describes the software:
“The ‘Digital Librarian’ understands the meaning of documents including pdfs, word files, news feeds and social media, so that it knows what is discussed in them. It uses this inherent understanding to enrich each document with additional knowledge to make it more findable when people search. Sophia automatically enriches documents with information about its topic & sub topic and also adds new knowledge about its meaning. For example a document that refers to heart attack will be enriched with additional terms such as heart disease, or myocardial infarct to increase the number of ways users can find it.”
I like Sophia Search’s motto: “great minds think differently.” Their technology uses Semiotics and Intertextuality to increase information findability, as opposed to approaches that rely on mathematics or pattern matching. Founded in 2007 by Dr. David Patterson from the University of Ulster and Dr. Vladimir Dobrynin from the State University of St. Petersburg , the company is headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland and has offices in San Jose, CA.
Cynthia Murrell, May 31, 2012
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