PolySpot
Encyclopedia
PolySpot is a privately held enterprise search
software company
.
Created in 2001, PolySpot has its headquarters in Paris, France and also has offices in the United Kingdom. PolySpot designs search and information access
solutions. PolySpot’s technology allows users to search numerous source of information simultaneously, stored in both the enterprise and on the web and deliver search results through a single profiled interface. PolySpot facilitates access to documents, helping users to capitalise on information resources, and, by using the product’s collaborative features, to share their knowledge with other communities.
On september 8th 2011, PolySpot has raised EUR 2m from Newfund.
PolySpot Enterprise Search contains standard search engine
behaviour such as advanced searches, topic clustering
and also federated searches
, social searches, faceted navigation, entity extraction module, multilingual search (50 languages) and drill down features. Results are presented with a context summary and its interface can be customised by users, for example in terms of relevance tuning.
PolySpot also use natural language technologies
.
PolySpot Information At Work is an infrastructure component that can be integrated into business information systems.
PolySpot indexing capabilities are based on the Apache
Lucene
Java-based open-source project.
PolySpot is a member of the 1% for the Planet
organisation.
Enterprise search
Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.-Enterprise search summary:...
software company
ISV
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Created in 2001, PolySpot has its headquarters in Paris, France and also has offices in the United Kingdom. PolySpot designs search and information access
Information access
Information access is a term used to describe an area of research at the intersection of informatics, Information Science, Information Security, Language Technology, Computer Science, and library science....
solutions. PolySpot’s technology allows users to search numerous source of information simultaneously, stored in both the enterprise and on the web and deliver search results through a single profiled interface. PolySpot facilitates access to documents, helping users to capitalise on information resources, and, by using the product’s collaborative features, to share their knowledge with other communities.
On september 8th 2011, PolySpot has raised EUR 2m from Newfund.
PolySpot Enterprise Search contains standard search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
behaviour such as advanced searches, topic clustering
Document clustering
Document clustering is closely related to the concept of data clustering. Document clustering is a more specific technique for unsupervised document organization, automatic topic extraction and fast information retrieval or filtering.A web search engine often returns thousands of pages in...
and also federated searches
Federated search
Federated search is an information retrieval technology that allows the simultaneous search of multiple searchable resources. A user makes a single query request which is distributed to the search engines participating in the federation...
, social searches, faceted navigation, entity extraction module, multilingual search (50 languages) and drill down features. Results are presented with a context summary and its interface can be customised by users, for example in terms of relevance tuning.
PolySpot also use natural language technologies
Natural language processing
Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
.
PolySpot Information At Work is an infrastructure component that can be integrated into business information systems.
PolySpot indexing capabilities are based on the Apache
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
Lucene
Lucene
Apache Lucene is a free/open source information retrieval software library, originally created in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License....
Java-based open-source project.
PolySpot is a member of the 1% for the Planet
One Percent for the Planet
One Percent for the Planet is an international organization whose members contribute at least one percent of their annual sales to environmental causes. Their mission is to "use market forces to drive positive environmental change by inspiring companies to give"...
organisation.