LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™

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LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™

LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ provides the exact information you’re looking for. We guarantee ease of use with LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™. All of our raw data is hidden under metadata or classification technology™. This technology™ is always at work in the background of your searches, giving context to your terms and enabling the most agile and exact content discovery. LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ categorizes our data into 29 industry brackets and 19 subject categories, with six additional levels of detail. It also works in nine languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Arabic allowing you to conduct multi-lingual searches with ease and confidence.

What does LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ do?

The terminology and algorithms needed to generate the most robust and accurate results are created, tested, and maintained by the LexisNexis team of information specialists and subject matter experts.

SmartIndexing makes it possible to find information about specific themes and industries even if they aren't addressed clearly in the material. SmartIndexing, in other words, finds relevant stuff that you might otherwise overlook.

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Accuracy

Our indexers and analysts conduct a battery of iterative tests on new index terms time and again. The existing index terms are updated frequently to ensure the maximum level of recall and accuracy. The same taxonomies are used throughout LexisNexis Products.

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Language-neutral

For English - whether US or UK, German- and French- we use the same SmartIndexing codes for the documents in several languages. This is to allow you to search among foreign as well as English language sources and documents using English index terms.

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Current & Precise

Index terms and hierarchies change sometimes, but many databases do not have any capability to re-index past documents to stay up-to-date. The automatic processes of SmartIndexing crawls all documents in the database quarterly so that all indexing is current. The technology uses codes for indexing for precision. For example, when a company or a country changes its name, it can be recognized instantly.

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Narrower term roll up

Subordinate terms include searches for higher level terms unless explicitly excluded by the user. This method matches the natural assumption of most users that, for example, a search on (the broad term) Insurance Products should return an article indexed to (narrower terms) Automobile Insurance or Health Insurance.

How Can SmartIndexing Technology™ Help You?

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Search with Single Term

SmartIndexing Technology™ allows you to capture broad concepts in a single term rather than having to tie together many keywords.

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Augmented Search

SmartIndexing Technology™ allows you to search for information by industry, augmenting your keywords to bring up relevant material that you might not have found otherwise.

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Add Context to the Search

SmartIndexing Technology™  allows you to supplement additional search words to give context to your search, refine it further.

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Easy, Quick & Accurate

SmartIndexing Technology™ helps you find the information you need easily, quickly and most importantly, accurately.

LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ covers:

Content - Newspapers, news wires, newsletters, magazines, journals, transcripts, and digital content in English, German, and French, including:

Sources of Information:

  • Company Intelligence—global reports
  • LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations
  • MarketLine reports
  • Extel® Cards
  • Financial Post

Even if your original search did not include index terms, you can still use the Subject, Industry, Company, Geography, or People groups.

Names & Topics - 6,080 + subjects English language

  • 2,396+ subjects French language
  • 3,030 + subjects German language
  • Covering news, business, science, and social topics such as  Labor & Employment, Population & Demographics, Trends  & Events, and much more.
  • 6,449+ industries English language
  • 2,541+ industries French language
  • 2,945+ industries German language

What is Multi-Language Indexing?

The MULTI-LANGUAGE INDEXING phrase look-up option on our search page allows for a multi-language indexing search. This "word wheel" displays the whole thesaurus that was used for indexing. You can select a term from the lookup, for example, in English, and retrieve results from sources in these languages (assumed sources in these languages have been chosen) using our indexing technology™: French, German, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Arabic are some of the most widely spoken languages in the world.

When should non-English languages be indexed using LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™?

Multi-language indexing, like English indexing, gives value to any search performed on non-English news and business information. The following are some of the most compelling reasons to use LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ in many languages:

  • With LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™, you may search non-English-language sources with the same assurance you search English-language sources.
  • Find articles in French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and other languages.
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