Search Tools Product Report

DMP Scout

Product Information

Platform: Windows NT or 2000 toolkit
Price: contact company

• Indexes text, HTML, XML, PDF and Word files.
• Natural-language query interface.
• Cross-lingual search with language identification.
• Linguistically-based relevance ranking.
• Topic tree to expand or define results.
• Customizable interface.

Articles & Reviews

• DMPartners Scout 3.1 search engine technology KM-Informer, by Erik Vlietinck
  Results of an informal test of 600 documents reports consistently accurate results.
  
  
• Multilingual analysis tools for international Web Shopping ITWeek ZDNet UK Briefing Paper, October 16, 2000 by Erik Vlietinck
  Describes tools to handle the special problems of multilingual searching on e-commerce sites. LexTek Onix is mentioned as using linguistics-based technology and translation tools. Lernout & Hauspie of Belgium provides speech recognition and translation tools in 22 languages, and is associated with DMPartners Essence (summarization) and Scout (search engine) tools. Compares statistical processing of natural-language queries to Scout's linguistic analysis for retrieval and describes the value of linguistic searching.