How does it work?

 

Elsevier Scientific and Patent content and web + Semantic indexing Technology

illumin8 is the only productivity solution that provides access to web content, Elsevier's scientific content, and world-wide patents combined with powerful semantic indexing technology in one tool. illumin8's patent-pending search technology reads billions of documents from the web and authoritative scientific and patent sources. It searches and extracts summarized information and rich interrelationships based on deep semantic structures of sentences. In seconds, using semantic indexing technology, illumin8 identifies solutions to specific research problems.

 
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1. Enter simple search query on any topic, benefit or problem

  

2. Search across billions of documents

  

3. Discover 100's of summarized answers and insights in seconds
  • Topic: gives the solutions that exist in a topic area
  • Problem: gives the solutions that can address a specific problem
  • Benefit: gives the solutions that provide a set of benefits
  
  • 5 Billion business relevant web pages, blogs and forums
  • 3 Million full-text scientific and technical articles from 1,800 Elsevier journals
  • 33 Million scientific records from 15,000 peer reviewed journals & more than 4,000 publishers
  • 22 Million patents from 5 world-wide patent offices
  
  • Powered by NetBase, illumin8’s technology was developed at MIT’s Media Lab.
  • It reads and extracts deep meaning from structured and unstructured content.
  • The technology identifies solutions and benefit statements, whether expressed directly or indirectly.
  • These solutions and benefit statements are then collected into a dataset of over a billion solutions.
  • Search queries based on topic, problem and benefit are run against this massive dataset of solutions.
  • Solutions are categorized by products, organizations, approaches, and technologies into crisp, summarized answers to support R&D decision making