Lexis-Nexis and Semio Partners in Taxonomy
Lexis-Nexis forms alliance with Semio Corporation to provide customizable taxonomy systems
15 March 2001, 6 pm GMT
The Lexis-Nexis Group is entering an alliance with Semio Corporation, a leading provider of content categorization software, to present its customers with the opportunity to adopt Semio Taggerä, a taxonomy system enabling them to optimize the value and usability of a firms’ information.
A taxonomy solution organizes large amounts of unstructured information within a hierarchy of categories and subcategories. This format offers the ability to easily gain access to specific information online regardless of the amount of data being searched. Semio Tagger taxonomy software offers the customer a custom-built taxonomy for their particular business needs and complements the legal-specific Lexis-Nexis Search Advisorâ taxonomy, developed by the legal experts of Matthew Benderâ, Michieâ and Shepard’sâ.
Semio Tagger will be available as an optional, add-on component to the Lexis-Nexis Portal. Powered by Plumtree Software, the Lexis-Nexis Portal is a totally integrated, customized desktop solution that allows a firm to dramatically expand its knowledge-management capabilities, substantially broaden its access to information and increase its productivity.
The Lexis-Nexis Portal is part of the Lexis-Nexis Customized eSolutionsSM family of products. This comprehensive line of web based tools is designed to deliver vital information to the desktops of legal professionals in customized, user defined formats.
Under the alliance, Semio Tagger will also be available to Lexis-Nexis customers who already have an existing portal solution in place. For the first time, all law firms can have access to a custom built organizational strategy for information.
“Semio Tagger creates customized, browseable category structures for web portals, giving users better and faster access to the information they need. It also allows Lexis-Nexis Portal customers the ability to create and implement customized, automated text categorization and browsing capabilities as part of a complete web portal solution,” says Michele Vivona, vice president of Large Law Market Planning for Lexis-Nexis.
The ultimate beneficiary of the alliance is the end user in a law firm. "Semio is pleased to partner with the Lexis Nexis Group to help lawyers increase productivity by providing instant access to the right information in the right context," says Roger Ferguson, CEO of Semio Corporation. "Lexis-Nexis provides high-value and trusted information solutions to the legal profession and by incorporating Semio's content categorization technology within the Lexis-Nexis portal, legal professionals are guaranteed a new competitive advantage."
With firms becoming increasingly dependent upon portals to manage their practice, “an increased demand will be placed on the need to organize and retrieve large amounts of text-based information linked to the portal. Taxonomy serves this function by organizing this information,” claims Vivona.
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