PORTABLE CLASSIFICATION TOOLS

摘要

With the advent and popularity of Intranet portals, LEXIS-NEXIS has seen an ever-increasing customer need to simultaneously and consistently search both internal proprietary materials, the Internet, and LEXIS-NEXIS materials. One approach to this customer demand at LEXIS-NEXIS is to find ways to apply its SmartIndexing technologies to the Internet and Customer-Side data which will allow a single search from a topic hierarchy to return consistent and relevant results from all three sources. The challenge of porting internal LNG intellectual property into a third party system's format is an interesting endeavor that is the subject of this paper. LNG's intellectual property exploits algorithms and operators that are difficult or impossible to duplicate on many third party systems. The accuracy of LNG SmartIndexing depends upon these novel operators and accuracy is a key before LEXIS-NEXIS will brand Portable SmartIndexing. The heart of this paper is a discussion of the problems and solutions of taking proprietary algorithms and getting them to run accurately and effectively in a third party's system within the customer's firewall.