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LOBBY of the AGENCY
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Picture a
virtual office building, where teams of Search Agents
work 24x7 to keep their clients abreast of news in professional areas
of interest. Picture yourself in the lobby of that building,
about to meet two of these Agents.
Agency web services utilize
the semantics of terms,
not just their spelling, to support search
applications. They also support Agents
that users can refine interactively. This preview site uses two example
applications to help us better explain how this combination can be used.
Subscribers can easily build new applications focused on different or additional
data, over which authorized end-users (or the public) can search. Agents help their users by noticing changes in monitored data or vocabulary, then reacting
semi-intelligently with user-customized reports and analysis.
[Login] has been temporarily disabled, so
please browse all pages freely. The examples are similar
enough to show common themes, but differ enough to let you sense the
range and power of the Agency service framework:
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PubMed Alerting services lets
users
define an interest area scoped by a few thousand NCBI
abstracts. Its Research Agents
report new abstracts of similar content; show their key subtopics and related links; and trigger
subscriber reaction scripts.
Private variations could track clinical trials, patient treatment
notes or medical records in ways equally perceptive.
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Executable Lexicon services track registered definitions of vocabulary for schema
or ontologies, then offer semantic search over structured
or semi-structured data that relates. Vocabulary Agents that users define monitor data feeds or web sites by using
such terms; learn new ones as they
scan text; notice how definitions differ
semantically; report changes in terms similar to those user-registered;
and help them
interoperate.
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The data
driving these and similar applications comes from subscribers
or as they direct from public
sources. Agents can
be configured to import any Corpus
of text or DBMS data to which they have access, or to accept bulk data
feeds posted to
an
HTTP end point they can monitor.
Either approach gets you Smart
Alerting on the data you specify, Semantic
Search on demand, and
Agent-triggered Business Rule Scripts, all
delivered under one low-cost group subscription to Agency web
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