Comparison of search engines for websites, wikis, CMS, DMS and ECM. Approach and product features

Criterion (Example)	SEMPRIA-Search	Traditional
		search engines
Expansion with synonyms (policeman - cop)	✔	✔
Expansion with term hierarchies (Neodymium is a rare earth)	✔	partially
Expansion with alternative formulations (export - import)	✔
Use of geographical knowledge (Amberg is located in Bavaria)	✔
Handling ambiguity (jaguar: car or animal)	✔
Comparison of meanings (no comparison of character strings)	✔
Text cross-references (Mrs. Klein - the counselor - she)	✔
Question function (Who exports uranium?)	✔
Sentiment analysis (How is the new BMW?)	✔
Technical language: domain adaptation, customer vocabulary	✔	partially
Robustness against misspellings and spelling variants	✔	partially
Various orthographies (18th century till 21st century)	✔
Multilingual internal search engine (chair - Sessel; long-distance traffic - Fernverkehr)	English, German	partially
Search hit processing and response generation	✔	partially
Explanation of search hits (How did the computer infer the search hit?)	✔
Freely selectable form for search results	✔
Indexing of audio and video documents	✔
Automatic keywording and subject catalogs	✔
Metadata integration	✔	✔
Search facets (date, author, location, keywords, custom facets)	✔	partially
Autocomplete and search suggestions	✔	✔
Search for multiple web domains (techfirma.de and dev.techfirma.org)	✔
Content-based duplicate detection	✔	partially
Free from advertisements	✔	partially
White label solution	✔	partially
SaaS solution available	✔	partially
Server solution (on-premises) available	✔	partially
GDPR-compliant, German data centers	✔	partially

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