Answerchase
 

Background:  
Answerchase, Inc. is a provider of natural language based search solutions. The company's core technologies include intelligent navigation, sequence indexing (Syndexing), fuzzy inference, artificial intelligence, patent-pending complete natural language processing (NLP), and computational linguistics.

Role:
Information designer, writer, consultant.

White Paper:

The Evolution of Search:  
Moving from Information Retrieval to Dialog-driven Advisory Systems
After e-mail, searching typically ranks as the second most popular activity among Internet users. This paper follows the evolution of search, from relatively simple text indexing engines to intelligent text-parsing systems. In particular, this paper describes full natural language processing (Full NLP), a technology for computerizing language understanding in way that sets the stage for search based on similarity of content rather than on a strict vocabulary of key terms.