STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the Asia and Pacific (APAC) availability of illumin8, a Web-based natural language processing solution designed to help corporate research professionals answer complex R&D questions with greater speed and effectiveness. illumin8 extracts key relationships across the breadth of Elsevier's premium scientific content, millions of patents and 8 billion web pages and fuses them into an organised view.
Recent research projects R&D spending in Asia to reach $386 billion in 2009, accounting for 33.8 percent of the world's total R&D expenditures. Initially launched in the US in February 2008, illumin8 fills the void of streamlined, efficient research processes, setting a new standard for data extraction from high-quality content sources.
illumin8 searches across a wide range of technical and subject domains, serving the needs of research professionals in a number of different fields such as automotive, oil & gas, electronics, chemicals, coatings and consumer goods and packaging. Because of its unique algorithms, illumin8 is designed to go beyond simple keyword search and is the only tool that can extract relationships from vast amounts of information, thereby providing the quickest and easiest way to understand technology and remove roadblocks in the scientists' workflow. Further, illumin8 guides research at the front-end of innovation by uncovering undisclosed concepts, finding new technologies and identifying the leading experts and innovators in new areas.
illumin8 is part of Elsevier's portfolio of advanced information retrieval solutions that transforms its high value content into actionable knowledge to improve ROI for corporate R&D. illumin8 users can easily access the full-text of Elsevier journals if they have an online subscription to the journal through ScienceDirect, the world's largest online platform of science, technical and medical (STM) content.
