IBM OmniFind Personal Email Search (IOPES) is "smart" search software designed to help Lotus Notes users by identifying the most relevant information in a search query and extrapolating what they are trying to find. IOPES is powered by advanced algorithms that can interpret incomplete queries and find information such as phone numbers, people, meetings, presentations, documents, and images. With it, a user can find a phone number even if the e-mail database doesn't have the words "phone" and "number" in the text. IOPES also lets users create, save, and share personalized searches for future use.
"With gigabytes of e-mail storage readily available to nearly everyone, e-mail has evolved from a simple communication tool into a personal database where we retain vast amounts of valuable information," said Douglas Wilson, IBM Lotus distinguished engineer and chief technology officer. "We continue to deliver better tools to speed and improve personal mailbox search, and OmniFind Personal Email Search illustrates how IBM's advanced technology delivers the ability to quickly and easily access the precise information we need, exactly when we need it."
IOPES uses the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), an open source software framework that helps organizations build new analysis technologies to realize more value from their unstructured information by discovering relationships, identifying patterns, and predicting outcomes. Originally developed by IBM, UIMA is now an open source project at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). UIMA is used extensively to enable text analysis, extraction, and concept search capabilities in other parts of the IBM OmniFind enterprise search portfolio, including OmniFind Enterprise Edition, OmniFind Analytics Edition, and OmniFind Yahoo! Edition.
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