Variations of Expression

 

Now, let's say you are searching for documents containing information about terrorist organizations who were involved in transacting weapons with (to or from) Iran. Again, if you type the words "...sold weapons to Iran." you will only get documents with those words. If a document contained the sentence "Iran bought Stingers from Hamas." it would be hard to find because you would have to provide specific terms in your query (Hamas, Stinger, Bought). Moreover, if the phrase was reversed "Hamas traded for weapons with Iran" or something like this, a different term for transacting (traded) is being used.

 

Unification of Meaning

 

Ontreweb technology is able to identify all these documents with a single query! The same set of concepts #TerroristGroup, #Transaction, #Iran can be used because many known terms, variants and conjugations are meticulously mapped to concepts. For instance, the verbs "sell,selling,sold,sale,bought,traded,trade" etc, are mapped to #Transaction. Thus, ontreweb is able to discern these terms to mean the same concept. The same is true of #TerroristGroup, where terms like "Hamas" and "Al Qaeda" are already known. This means you, the user, do not have to possess these specific facts beforehand and yet can find information you would have missed.

 

Now, keep in mind we have over 200,000 words, phrases and expressions mapped to over 35,000 concepts across multiple taxonomies and ontologies!

 

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