The Heart of the Matter: Text Search
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| How Can theExact Word®'s Technology Improve Communication? Before we realized the world had changed, the Internet and World-Wide Web created a new age. The nineties became the information age once and for all with cyberspace. Available to anyone with a computer, the Net and the Web meshed the global populations into a new unit, a village, a community, a neighborhood, depending upon how you see it. Anyone who wants an audience can have one. Make a home page, visit a chat room. Talk, chat, pontificate, read, or write. Make a statement; be a statement; inform. At the same time, therefore, language became something new. Language has lost the dimension of gesture as we talk to each other on the screen; on the other hand, language has gained a dimension. We have to depend upon language to capture context in a new way. theExact Word® makes context visual. Thus, context becomes a new, visual dimension of conversation. You can picture the context of what someone says to you. You can paint the context of your own thought so that you can see it objectively. How Can theExact Word®'s Technology Improve Search Engines? The proliferation of Internet and World-Wide Web communications has changed how quickly we communicate. Even more intensely, it has changed how much information we have. In this new information age, we have almost more information than we know what to do with. Information can become a glut, as much an impediment as a boom. What do you do? Who do you trust? Or what do you believe? If you search for the word "still," you may find a million locations. But, because "still" has five meanings, at least, you then must "search" or "sort" the list for the particular meaning that you want. Finding a million locations for the word, "still," may not create any sense of distrust, but, nonetheless, you have to trust technology to help you search and work efficiently, else you lose time and do not benefit very easily for your effort. theExact Word®'s technology can change the nature of the search technology. The word, "still," to have meaning in English, must have a context. "My uncle owns a still" means that he owns a distillery. "Still, he has another job" means "yet," or "on the other hand." If you search for the "still" which means "yet," you do not want to see the references for "distillery." This frivolous example illustrates the point. Certainly, you would write "distillery" if that were what you want. Nonetheless, references to distilleries would include "still" abbreviations and those would tag by search engines if you were to look for the "yet" or "nonetheless" meanings. If you could identify the contexts for each meaning to reduce the initial search. Or, if you could look at the contexts for the meanings in order to sort which ones you wanted, you would save time. In less frivolous examples, the impact of reduced searches could redefine text search. What New Definition Can Context Have? The nature of thought already has a context. As this web site illustrates, the context patterns of thought occur automatically as language patterns. The colors of random passages throughout the site illustrate the thought patterns. WordPrint® automatically highlights the context of sentences. If you searched for thought patterns on the Web, you would find discussions, not just words. You would find where words formed specific types of discussions. How Will New Kinds of Context Help Me? If you read a document, for example, or an e-mail, you would find how an entire document treated Conditions, or Processes. You can "trace" substance as it connects the substance of an idea. You could search for the Conditions or the Primary ideas before you started a search. Current R&D seeks a way to "gist" the underlying meaning in text. Making "big" into "smaller" would help to manage information. It could help to prevent jumping to conclusions. So much "miscommunication" occurs when a reader does not know how to check a premise Imagine being able to "see where someone is coming from." Imagine making queries in natural language. Imagine thinking in patterns of thought. Imagine "thinking on the screen." How Does theExact Word®'s Technology Work? theExact Word® has created its software technology as a baseline program, in C++, to port to other applications such as search engines. The WordPrint® program creates the automatic display of natural language in thought patterns, the "bigger chunks of meaning." This technology allows for sorting substance, identifying "bigger chunks of meaning," and visualizing the flow and relationship of thoughts, not simply words. This software automatically "gists" meaning beyond word-tagging and indexing. theExact Word® has begun to identify probable partners in such a venture. Therefore, we welcome inquiry and strategic relationships to add value to current technology.
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