Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced that it was awarded a major contract by the National Agricultural Library (NAL), one of the world's largest agricultural information collections, part of the United States Department of Agriculture. Under the deal, NAL will use Luxid for Content Enrichment to automatically index hundreds of thousands of documents annually.
To keep up with the escalating demand for its information services, NAL has acquired through TEMIS an automated indexing software that vastly expands the potential number of articles indexed each year while simultaneously achieving a high level of quality.
TEMIS will tackle NAL's indexing challenge with its Luxid for Content Enrichment Platform. The Text Mining platform turns unstructured data into actionable knowledge, enabling advanced content enrichment for indexing, enhanced search and navigation, content analysis and strategic information discovery. Luxid's automated categorisation process will rely on the NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (NALT), a key component of the library's organisational tools.
With Luxid for Content Enrichment driving its indexing processes, NAL expects significant productivity gains. Six in-house indexers will be able to index by subject 300,000 articles per year, a four-fold increase over the current average indexer's level of production. The assignment of subject retrieval terms in NAL's AGRICOLA Index is currently performed entirely by human indexers who average 75,000 articles each year.
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