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

Criterion (Example)SEMPRIA-SearchTraditional
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 of ambiguity (jaguar: car or animal) ✔
Comparison of meanings (no comparison of character strings) ✔
Co-references in texts (Mrs. Miller - the actress - she) ✔
Multilingual internal search engine (armchair - Sessel; long-distance traffic - Fernverkehr) ✔ English, Germanpartially
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)✔
Search hit processing and response generation✔partially
Explanation of search hits (How did the computer infer the search hit?)✔
Freely selectable format of search engine results✔
Indexing of audio documents and video documents✔
Automatic keywording and subject catalogs✔
Metadata integration (over 30 predefined attributes)✔✔
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
No advertisements✔partially
White label solution✔partially
SaaS solution is available✔partially
Server solution is available; on-premises search✔partially
GDPR-compliant solution in German data centers✔partially

In each Example movie, a search query is at the top. An intelligently matchable text snippet from a document is at the bottom.

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