What is the difference between Concept Extraction and Search technologies?
Search technologies are generally incapable of overcoming the effects language complexity (e.g. multiple meanings, punctuation) have on fully understanding what knowledge a user is seeking. Search technologies index every word in every document to identify search terms, a process that is memory intensive and not very effective at finding the knowledge a user requires. Concept extraction begins with an understanding of the user’s need prior to indexing, and leverages this understanding to very efficiently and effectively locate and store knowledge of interest to the user. Through this process, unstructured text or data is directly converted to actionable information or knowledge without requiring the user to read through all the information returned by a search.
