Concept-based rules allow users to ask questions in familiar terms while increasing the relevancy of the results. Topics have been used many years by many Verity customers to classify, disseminate, organize, and retrieve mission-critical information. Intelligent Classifier merely brings this value to more Verity users. For example, Dow Jones Interactive CustomClips uses Verity's Profiler technology to continuously deliver news from thousands of sources, using Topics created by Dow Jones editors and customized to an individual's needs. Throughout the day, subscribers are alerted online or by e-mail to news about companies, industries and events that are important to them.
Topics help define the criteria for matching documents to the users' interests.
At Restrac, a leading provider of networked recruiting solutions, the advanced searching capabilities of Verity's Topics provides recruiters and hiring managers with an easy, yet powerful way to search through thousands of candidate resumes using concepts and context rather than keywords, to significantly increase the probability that a resume matches a job offering. Restrac uses Topics to map job candidate skills and experience, and delivers an extensive set of skill concepts to customers with their recruiting system. Topics automatically map a recruiter's job search to all related skills evidence, irrespective of the actual search terms used by the recruiter or hiring manager. NIS, a division of News Corporation, uses Topics to improve user access to an online entertainment database. Because of the complexity and size of the databases, NIS needed a way to create easily understandable views of the content for site visitors.