Q-Sensei
Encyclopedia
Q-Sensei is a privately-owned software company developing search-based applications for searching through unstructured
and structured data on the internet, business networks, private computers, databases and hand-held devices. Q-Sensei is based on multi-dimensional search, which lets you search by full text
and also by the various dimensions of data -- date, tag, author, source, language, content type.
Q-Sensei was formed in 2007 through the merger of German-based social knowledge network Lalisio and the US search technology company, QUASM. The company is headquartered in Rockledge, Florida
. Its European office is in Erfurt
, Germany.
Its name is derived from the Japanese word Sensei
, meaning "master" or "mentor".
Unstructured data
Unstructured Data refers to information that either does not have a pre-defined data model and/or does not fit well into relational tables. Unstructured information is typically text-heavy, but may contain data such as dates, numbers, and facts as well...
and structured data on the internet, business networks, private computers, databases and hand-held devices. Q-Sensei is based on multi-dimensional search, which lets you search by full text
Full text search
In text retrieval, full text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full text database...
and also by the various dimensions of data -- date, tag, author, source, language, content type.
Q-Sensei was formed in 2007 through the merger of German-based social knowledge network Lalisio and the US search technology company, QUASM. The company is headquartered in Rockledge, Florida
Rockledge, Florida
Rockledge is the oldest city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The population was 20,170 at the 2000 census. As of 2008, the estimated population according to the U.S. Census Bureau is 24,747. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical...
. Its European office is in Erfurt
Erfurt
Erfurt is the capital city of Thuringia and the main city nearest to the geographical centre of Germany, located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 150 km N of Nuremberg and 180 km SE of Hannover. Erfurt Airport can be reached by plane via Munich. It lies in the southern part of the Thuringian...
, Germany.
Its name is derived from the Japanese word Sensei
Sensei
' is a Japanese word that basically means "person born before another." In general usage, it means "master" or "teacher," and the word is used as a title to refer to or address teachers, professors, professionals such as lawyers, CPA and doctors, politicians, clergymen, and other figures of authority...
, meaning "master" or "mentor".
Products/applications
- Q-Sensei Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) -- a "next-generation" enterprise searchEnterprise searchEnterprise 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:...
platform "for all kinds of data." It received a Frost & Sullivan 2011 North American Enterprise Search New Product Innovation Award. - Q-Sensei FeedBooster -- an RSS/web feedWeb feedA web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator...
tool and feed reader that "lets you search or filter the information in your feeds" - Q-Sensei Scholarly Search Site (lambda.qsensei.com) -- an online service to search for information on books and scholarly articles in science, medicine, mathematics, medicine and literature from the Library of CongressLibrary of CongressThe Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
, the National Library of Medicine, arXivArXivThe arXiv |Chi]], χ) is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all...
, IngentaConnectIngentaFounded in 1998, Ingenta provided technology and associated services to the publishing and information industries. Its software enables scholarly, financial and business publishers to make content available to online institutional and individual end users, under a variety of business models.In...
, and Research Papers in Economics (RePEC)Research Papers in EconomicsResearch Papers in Economics is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 57 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, preprints, journal articles and software components. The project started...
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