Semantic search engines on the wild: Sensebot

Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts. SenseBot (Beta) is a semantic search engine that generates a text summary of multiple Web pages(Multi Document summarization) on the topic of your search query. It uses text mining and multidocument summarization to extract sense from Web pages and present it to the user in a coherent manner. A “Semantic Cloud” of concepts is displayed above the summary, allowing to steer the focus of the results.”

Examples with results can be viewed here.

SenseBot takes searching a step further by providing users with more precise and relevant information, just pluck in documents that contain the keywords. Loads of key info from credible sources are brought together in a user-friendly forum. Though far from perfect, is a peek into the applications and possibilities of this functionality in search engines.

The engine is still in beta, but it already provides 2 extra functionalities:

• LinkSensor- LinkSensor semantically analyzes posts or articles on-the-fly and highlights key concepts in the text. When the user’s mouse is over a highlighted word, a small balloon shows up suggesting other articles from your blog related to the word.
• OpinionCrawl – Web sentiment analysis site.

It also provides a functional API, deployed in the Amazon computing cloud. This gives us virtually unlimited scaling capabilities to support client applications. This is the same API that powers SenseBot and LinkSensor. Semantic API features include:

• Extraction of semantic concepts from a page or document;
• Creating a “semantic cloud” of concepts describing a group of documents;
• Generating a multi-document summary of a set of pages;
• Generating an essay on a topic based on a set of documents.
• Multiple parameters allow the client to control the type and format of results.

Dmitri Soubbotin pointed that the engine can return more relevant summaries if associated with vertical segment (medical, legal) or as an added feature that feeds major search engines.

Try SenseBot and share your comments on it.