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 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, German	partially

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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