We will have a free vendor-sponsored search solutions call June 9th at 1 PM EDT. I run these calls from time to time at no charge to hear from innovative technology firms. On occasion we offer these vendor sponsored calls when they offer real educational value and are not just a pitch for products and services.

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In this session, we will see examples of advanced and innovative integrated search environments that will leverage various classes of search tool. This will include:

• Complex federated search
• Leveraging of large taxonomies
• Integration of multiple taxonomies
• Entity extraction
• Advanced clustering to improve search results and usability
• Integration of public data sources with custom taxonomies
• Auto linking of results
• Streamlined search that combines multiple data sources and leverages one result set to derive the second result set
• Natural language queries and semantic search

The goal is to simplify what users need to go through to find information for their tasks. This means that simple to use systems have to emulate the thought processes and manual steps that a user will take. This can be done by analyzing work steps and building connection points between search systems. The two companies we are going to hear from will show you how this has been accomplished.

Teragram is a well known tool vendor whose linguistic analysis engine has been incorporated into major search vendor's offerings. You could say "Teragram doesn't make search tools, they make search tools better" (to paraphrase the old BASF commercials...). You'll learn how this particular tool addresses many taxonomy challenges (such as leveraging large taxonomies and term disambiguation).

Raritan is an integration firm comprised of a bunch of talented engineers who have been building complex search integration applications for the past 10 years. They use a framework that they have developed to help tie the pieces together - taxonomy integration, search integration, cascading search queries and other very innovative ways of putting the pieces together.

Earley & Associates, Inc helps organizations in the areas of content management, knowledge management, search, and taxonomy strategy. They offer results driven solutions that allow our clients to realize a better return on their investment in content management and collaboration systems.

If you have problems registering on line, please contact Monique deVries at Earley & Associates. monique@earley.com, 406-370-1716 or 406-273- 5431.

Earley & Associates provides organizations with taxonomy strategy, development and implementation services to support content management, knowledge management, e commerce, enterprise integration, portal and compliance initiatives.