Enterprise search engines have made retrieving information from humongous databases simple. Obtaining contextually relevant results from enterprise search engines, however, remain a challenge. A taxonomy can enable enterprise search engines to deliver relevant results by enabling entity extraction, facilitating faceted search, and enriching the vocabulary.
Enterprise search engines have made retrieving information from humongous databases simple. Obtaining contextually relevant results from enterprise search engines, however, remain a challenge. A taxonomy can enable enterprise search engines to deliver relevant results by enabling entity extraction, facilitating faceted search, and enriching the vocabulary.
Taxonomy has been a game-changer in the knowledge management world. For example, taxonomy enables the addition of metadata to content, which aids in contextualization. Once the context is added to the content, the findability of relevant information improves manifold.
One of the many ways a taxonomy enables enterprise search engines is by helping them empower crawlers to identify and classify key elements from unstructured documents through entity extraction. This creates a structure of the data, which in turn makes the search results more relevant.
Similarly, taxonomy enables robust faceted search by helping to add consistent and accurate metadata to content. Besides, taxonomy facilitates the customization of metadata according to an enterprise’s business requirements. In practice, this helps in deciding the facets that show up on the left-hand navigation. Subsequently, adding navigation filters and facets to search can ease navigation and precision.
A cognitive search without taxonomy fails to infer intent. Consequently, if synonyms and acronyms are mapped with a taxonomy, users can benefit from more relevant results. Lastly, taxonomy helps to train enterprise search engines and deal with issues of the ambiguity of terminologies.
In conclusion, taxonomies enable consistent and accurate retrieval of enterprise content. Consequently, enterprises and users benefit from them. However, implementing, and deriving benefits from a taxonomy would require a multidisciplinary team of experts.
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