{"id":515,"date":"2011-01-04T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T08:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2011-01-04T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T08:02:33","slug":"x-search-worldwide-expert-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2011\/01\/04\/x-search-worldwide-expert-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Search, worldwide expert search engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 18th of January 2011, PRESANS introduces X-Search (<a href=\"http:\/\/x-search.presans.com\">x-search.presans.com<\/a>), worldwide expert search engine. (1) X-Search crawls tens of millions of scientific sources (scientific literature, patents, research center websites etc.). (2) X-Search indexes and structure the information into expert profiles. (3) Sending a query from X-Search search bar returns a list of potential most qualified experts.<\/p>\n<h1>X-Search mines the web for millions of experts<\/h1>\n<p>Millions of experts exist in the world; most of them leave tracks on the web through scientific literature, patents, research center corporate websites, blogs, forums etc. X-Search, PRESANS Expert Search Engine technology allows automatically building network of Expert (expertise mapping).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The \u201ccrawling module\u201d constantly crawls tens of millions of these scientific sources to collect relevant information.<\/li>\n<li>Collected information is then analyzed (indexed and structured): the engine automatically builds a real-time network of experts. Experts are described by a number of fields including contact details, institution, collaborations, and field of expertise.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201cvisible part\u201d of the search engine is a search bar. A query corresponding to the scientific need is launched through the search bar. The engine returns a list of potential qualified experts. A ranking function ranks most relevant experts first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Technological innovations<\/h1>\n<p>Dr Vassilis Plachouras and his team at PRESANS have made a series of technological innovations to provide the following advantages to X-Search:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Structuring:<\/strong> the \u201centity recognition module\u201d recognizes and analyses textual documents referring to potential experts and builds structured expert profiles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intelligent:<\/strong> semantic analysis and supervised machine learning give sense to the query and allow suggestion of relevant experts beyond a simple keyword search.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>X-Search is the first free worldwide expert search engine<\/h1>\n<p>X-Search is launched by PRESANS on the 18th of January and the best thing is that anybody can ask for a free activation code. Registration to access X-Search Freemium is completely free and will always be! Drop us a line at x-search [at] presans [dot] com if you&#8217;d like to join the private beta.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 18th of January 2011, PRESANS introduces X-Search (x-search.presans.com), worldwide expert search engine. (1) X-Search crawls tens of millions of scientific sources (scientific literature, patents, research center websites etc.). (2) X-Search indexes and structure the information into expert profiles. 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