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new SoftInform Technology of Search for similar documents

In some cases capacities of phrasal search may not be sufficient. Say you need to find either absolutely identical documents or a document with content very similar to the query text. No information-retrieval system in the world, besides SearchInform, can quickly and adequately conduct search with full document acting as a query.

SearchInform’s Search for documents with similar content is based on SoftInform Search Technology and is conducted by a text extract, not by word or phrase. That is to say that a text of certain size represents the query. As a result, the program displays a list of necessary documents, maximally similar to the given text extract.

Similar search is much more than mere comparison of query words to the words in the text. While conducting search for documents similar in content with the help of SearchInform program, full set of words from the text, including their word forms is involved.

For instance, using standard phrasal search and having assorted a key word (phrase) you find a few dozens documents, in which this phrase occurs:

Naturally, the majority of documents will be absolutely irrelevant. Remember Internet search engines: how many relevant documents were there in the first dozen?

Using similar search option you do not have to think of key phrases for the query and conduct search for several times and look through the documents. It is enough to press the “search for similar” button and it’s done: there is a list of files containing the necessary information in front of you.

Search for similar with SearchInform is the easiest and most handy way to search for necessary information in big data volumes.