Since 1984
You may not have heard of Readware though
this technology has been in use at web sites in Europe and in the
United States since 1994. Various products of Readware
Technology have been under development since 1987, including The
Research Assistant, ConSearch for Windows and the Readware
IpServers. Readware has been embedded in products offered by
Siemens, OpenText and other well known brands.
Readware Technology has matured into a
high-performance, full-featured and scalable software framework for
parsing and indexing words and semiotic concepts
from all kinds of text for purposes of identification, classification,
topic analysis, search and retrieval.. These semiotic
concepts underlie the interonnectedness of the
topics, facts, and entities found in text, along with other
interpersonal and intersubjective elements of a text. Topics,
facts and named-entities are actuators of
relevant signals. They can be used to identify, classify and
organize all the relevant elements of any text in any supported language
You may download a copy of ConSearch version 7.9 here