White Papers
White Papers
Last Updated (Saturday, 27 September 2008 13:00)
White Papers
General information on SOPHIA
This paper is a product flyer giving a high level overview of SOPHIA
This paper is a brochure which gives a little more detail on SOPHIA
This paper describes the advantages of SOPHIA for Patent searching
White papers - general
A general overview of the SOPHIA search technology can be found here
More information on its functionality can be found here
Insight on the contextual linguistic model SOPHIA is based upon can be found here. This overviews how we as humans read information, assimilate information, interpret meaning from it and understand it. It is based on the science of semiotics and intertextuality. In order to develop an excellent search tool we felt it was important to understand these issues at the outset and base our technology on it. Semiotics is all about how we understanding signs, language and information in context.
White papers - scientific
An outline of the empirical work carried out to assess the quality of the themes SOPHIA discovers can be found here.
Empirical analysis of how SOPHIA can incrementally update themes as new information is added to a dataset without loss of quality can be found here
An analysis of how SOPHIA can be used as a search technique based on a browsing model can be found her