NetBase, Inc., a US-based provider of research software solutions that enable knowledge workers to mine the Internet and other online data to accelerate research, has announced the launch of healthBase (healthbase.netbase.com), a semantic search tool. healthBase is projected as a public showcase of the company’s Content Intelligence platform, which can read sentences inside documents, linguistically understand the meaning and power breakthrough search and discovery solutions.
The product uses Content Intelligence technology to automatically find treatments for any health condition or disease; and pros and cons of any treatment, medication and food. Like all NetBase-powered applications, healthBase enables users to get summarised answers and insights automatically from millions of online sources.
The company expects the product to demonstrate its technology by providing simple and comprehensive answers to health questions. Each question takes seconds to answer and is equivalent to someone manually reading thousands of documents. As no manual work is required to build the semantic index, healthBase can search on and find answers to tens of thousands of health conditions, diseases, treatments, medications, supplements, foods and even plants.
NetBase had launched Content Intelligence in April 2009, projecting it as a technology to harness billions of documents, linguistically understand sentences and automatically find answer to questions, not just lists of 'results.' The company had also announced that it had expanded its customer relationship with STM publisher Elsevier for several more years. The agreement was seen to validate NetBase's leadership position in helping large publishers such as Elsevier transform rich content into fully searchable insight applications that easily map to the workflow of today's fast-paced knowledge worker.
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