Concept Searching Limited is a
software company that specializes in
information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...
software. It has products for
Enterprise search, Taxonomy Management and
Statistical classification.
History
Concept Searching was founded in 2002 in the
UK and now has offices in the
USA and
South Africa. In August 2003 the company introduced the idea of using
Compound term processing Compound-term processing, in information-retrieval, is search result matching on the basis of compound terms. Compound terms are built by combining two or more simple terms; for example, "triple" is a single word term, but "triple heart bypass" is ...
.
Compound term processing allows statistical information retrieval applications to perform matching using multi-word concepts. This can improve the quality of search results and also allows unstructured information to be automatically classified with semantic metadata.
The company's products run on the Microsoft
.NET platform. The products integrate with Microsoft
SharePoint and many other platforms.
Concept Searching has developed the Smart Content Framework, which is a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues. The Smart Content Framework is used by many large organizations including 23,000 users at the
NASA Safety Center
Concept Searching was acquired by
Netwrix on 28 November 2018.
FAQ: Concept Searching’s Acquisition by Netwrix Corporation Completed
See also
* Compound term processing Compound-term processing, in information-retrieval, is search result matching on the basis of compound terms. Compound terms are built by combining two or more simple terms; for example, "triple" is a single word term, but "triple heart bypass" is ...
* Enterprise search
* Full text search
In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts ...
* Information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...
* Concept Search A concept search (or conceptual search) is an automated information retrieval method that is used to search electronically stored unstructured text (for example, digital archives, email, scientific literature, etc.) for information that is concept ...
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External links
Company Website
Knowledge management
Information retrieval organizations
Privately held companies of the United Kingdom
Software companies of the United Kingdom