IDOL uses its patented pattern-matching technology to form a conceptual and contextual understanding of all content, independent of language or format, thereby enabling searches to be performed conceptually. Since conceptual search can find information based on words not located in the document, it does not fall prey to the limitations of legacy methods. In addition to the traditional search performed by entering a few terms.
Advanced Conceptual Retrieval
IDOL solutions offer higher degrees of accuracy and sophistication, using a scalable technology that recognizes concepts. Putting information into context, this unique IDOL differentiator provides powerful conceptual retrieval features, including:
Natural Language Retrieval
IDOL accepts sample data as input (a sentence, paragraph or page of text, or the derived contextual information of an audio or speech snippet) and returns references to conceptually related documents ranked by relevance or contextual distance.
Query By Example
Users can submit sample data as input and IDOL returns references to conceptually related documents ranked by relevance or contextual distance.
Refine By Example
Users have the ability to refine by example. Based on the results of a natural language query, users can quickly refine their search by selecting refined examples to precisely focus on the context they require.
Relevance Ranking
In evaluating all types of queries, IDOL employs complex algorithms based on a combination of Information Theory and Bayesian methods to automatically weight and rank documents by statistical relevance. In doing so, it makes use of theoretic values calculated dynamically for all concepts on indexing, allowing the relevance of content to be evaluated. In practice, relevance can be seen as a measure of the conceptual overlap between the query text and the text within a document. Additionally, IDOL allows administrators to manipulate the relevance of query results in several ways:
Setting up a field process - users modify IDOL's configuration file, raising the percentage relevance of results according to the number of times that terms in specified fields match the terms in the query
Using BIAS - users can employ the BIAS field specifier to dynamically boost the percentage relevance of a query's results according to the numerical proximity of a specified field to a given value
Using Multipliers - users can multiply the weights of individual query terms in order to boost the relevance of results that match these terms accordingly
Key Benefits
Improves user experience by ordering search results in formats that better match expectations better
Relevance can be customized by administrators to suit business needs and employee roles
Properly implemented relevancy ranking can result in productivity gains and cost savings
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Summary: ...the County reduce the waste associated with manual processes, printing and storage of paperbased application forms. The municipality also eliminated data entry errors by incorporating database validations, calculations and other intelligent eForm features. Case study | County of San Diego Case study | County...
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Summary: ...For example: • Conceptual Search retrieves documents which are thematically similar even if they don't feature the keywords used in the original query thus moving beyond traditional approaches which depend heavily on grammatical structure or specific vocabulary. • IDOL's unique AQG refines search...
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Summary: ...combine Boolean and Proximity operators to form simple or complex Boolean expressions Parametric search Users can search for items by certain field values. When they provide fixed values in parametric fields, the parametric search returns consistent values in the non-fixed parametric fields. For example,...
Summary: ...of data types & sources • Moves beyond reporting towards pattern recognition & predictive analytics Autonomy IDOL is the engine that allows Autonomy’s enterprise search applications to solve key business problems. IDOL uses patented algorithms to automatically recognize concepts and ideas expressed...
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Summary: ...170 patents, IDOL offers higher degrees of accuracy and sophistication using a scalable technology that recognizes concepts. Since conceptual search can find information based on words not located in the document, it does not fall prey to the limitations of legacy methods. Full XML Support IDOL allows...
Summary: ...to the contact center—to define the best bid strategies and improve elements of the campaign to attract the greatest value audience. Autonomy’s bid management system is unparalleled. We determine the most effective bid and match type across all engines and automatically place and refine bids based...
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Summary: ...soon as they happen. Increase your productivity with an intuitive user interface The IUS user interface is intuitive and easy-to-use. Visual guides, such as concept clouds and clustering, help you quickly refine queries. You can preview each document while IUS automatically generates links to other conceptually...
Summary: ...Expertise The Expertise Locator Portlet allows users to find people who have been dealing with a specific subject by entering a brief natural language description of the subject. It returns all agents and profiles that match this description together with the names of the users who own the agents or profiles....
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Summary: ...conceptual retrieval Built on a unique pattern-matching technology, IDOL’s conceptual query mechanism allows a seemingly simple query expression to be evaluated in complex ways; as well as the matching of the basic terms within documents using patented weighting algorithms, it is able to develop the...
Summary: ...the form of emails, documents, IMs, social media, SMS messages, audio in the form of speech and sounds, video, XML, and images. • Ideas do not match, they have a distance. No two ideas are exactly the same, but they have degrees of similarity based on how conceptually close they are to each other.
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Summary: ...search have proven to be both insufficient and inefficient. One way to measure effective search is the rate of precision and recall at which the technology performs. Precision is the proportion of documents in a query result that are relevant. A query result with perfect precision would consist of all...
Summary: ...functionality to meet their business objectives. IDOL functionality includes: 1.2.1 Automated content operations: ? Concept matching & retrieval IDOL offers higher degrees of accuracy and sophistication, using a scalable technology that recognizes concepts. This unique Autonomy differentiator provides...
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Summary: ...workings and underlying theory. Autonomy’s approach is based on a unique combination of technologies with theoretical underpinnings that can be traced to Bayesian Inference and Claude Shannon¹s Principle of Information. Bayes Theorem has become a central tenet of modern statistical probability modeling....
Summary: ...process • Weight of every field can be manipulated • User feedback used to calculate relevancy and primacy • Recently added features include: • Query bread-crumbing/Audit • Real-time validation sampling • Defensibility reporting • Intent-based ranking • Social media scoring New Enhancements...
Summary: ...data with several Word documents and PDFs of 100 pages or more. Unbeknownst to the vendor, you must ensure that a query found on page 90-100 actually matches and returns these documents. This will force a vendor to search and index documents in their entirety, rather than limit retrieval to a reduced...
Summary: ...core to load the information. The uniqueness of the query then forces the only truly complex step, a one-off calculation in which combination algorithms arrive at the most relevant set of documents to the query. These can then be returned without the need for looping through every potential match. Autonomy...
Summary: ...as quantum clustering, to form them. It understands that there is an X probability that the content in question deals with a specific subject by studying the preponderance of one pattern over another. IDOL is built on algorithms rooted in Bayesian Inference and Shannon’s Information Theory. With Bayesian...
Summary: ...content, but the most relevant. Advanced heuristics such as user profiling and intent-based ranking ensure that IDOL orders results not just based on popularity or keyword matches or other legacy algorithms, but tailors the results to the user’s purpose and to the specific query, making search more...
Summary: ...document. 2. The enhanced document is processed using Intelligent Document Recognition to extract key terms. 3. Best matching deals are identified and then returned with a percentage match statistic. 4.
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