Tropes Zoom
Encyclopedia
Tropes Zoom is a desktop search
engine and semantic analysis software from Acetic/Semantic-Knowledge.
Originally written by Pierre Molette in 1994 in partnership with University Paris 8, Tropes Zoom was the first search engine
based on semantic networks to be widely known.
Unlike other search engines, Tropes Zoom will suggest that the user replace each identified word with the sense it is contained into. Thus, the search is not carried out directly on the words you have chosen, but on the totality of their semantic equivalents. It let users to group files together by subject, and to analyze all the texts dealing with one or several themes within a large collection of documents.
Since 2011, Tropes is available as a free software under a variant of BSD license agreement.
comprises five components:
Desktop search
Desktop search is the name for the field of search tools which search the contents of a user's own computer files, rather than searching the Internet...
engine and semantic analysis software from Acetic/Semantic-Knowledge.
Originally written by Pierre Molette in 1994 in partnership with University Paris 8, Tropes Zoom was the first 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...
based on semantic networks to be widely known.
Unlike other search engines, Tropes Zoom will suggest that the user replace each identified word with the sense it is contained into. Thus, the search is not carried out directly on the words you have chosen, but on the totality of their semantic equivalents. It let users to group files together by subject, and to analyze all the texts dealing with one or several themes within a large collection of documents.
Since 2011, Tropes is available as a free software under a variant of BSD license agreement.
Features
The Tropes Zoom suite for Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows
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comprises five components:
- Tropes, text analysis and semantic classification software.
- Zoom, semantic search engineSearch engineA 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...
. - Integrated web crawlerWeb crawlerA Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, Web spiders, Web robots, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters.This process is called Web...
, to collect Internet content. - Integrated report writer.
- Optional Web module (Web Repository generator).
See also
- Desktop searchDesktop searchDesktop search is the name for the field of search tools which search the contents of a user's own computer files, rather than searching the Internet...
- List of desktop search engines
- Text miningText miningText mining, sometimes alternately referred to as text data mining, roughly equivalent to text analytics, refers to the process of deriving high-quality information from text. High-quality information is typically derived through the devising of patterns and trends through means such as...