IBM OmniFind was an
enterprise search
Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.
"Enterprise search" is used to describe the software of search information within an ente ...
platform from
IBM. It did come in several packages adapted to different business needs, including OmniFind Enterprise Edition, OmniFind Enterprise Starter Edition, and OmniFind Discovery Edition. IBM OmniFind as a standalone product was withdrawn in April 2011 and is now part of
IBM Watson Content Analytics with Enterprise Search.
IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition was a free-of-charge version that could handle up to 500,000 documents in its index and was intended for small businesses. IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition was simple to install, provided a user friendly front end for administration, and incorporated technology from the open source
Lucene
Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a ...
project. IBM withdrew this product from marketing effective September 22, 2010 and withdrew support effective June 30, 2011.
IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search was a research product launched in 2007 for doing
semantic search
Semantic search denotes search with meaning, as distinguished from lexical search where the search engine looks for literal matches of the query words or variants of them, without understanding the overall meaning of the query. Semantic search seek ...
over personal emails by extracting and organizing concepts and relationships (such as phone numbers and addresses).
The project appears to have been silently abandoned sometimes around 2010.
See also
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LanguageWare LanguageWare is a natural language processing (NLP) technology developed by IBM, which allows applications to process natural language text. It comprises a set of Java libraries which provide a range of NLP functions: language identification, tex ...
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UIMA UIMA ( ), short for Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is an OASIS standard for content analytics, originally developed at IBM. It provides a component software architecture for the development, discovery, composition, and deploy ...
External links
IBM OmniFindIBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition
IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search
Online demo and review of IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition
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