SENTENSA Knowledge Miner is a very advanced tool for information retrieval and is issued under GNU GPL and LGPL Open Source Licenses.

Built on a Vector Space Model, SENTENSA is the perfect tool to easily and quickly extract knowledge from a huge amount of information. With SENTENSA you can simultaneously analyse information in different proprietary and public databases.

The name SENTENSA originates from the concept that the content of the search text is taken into consideration to find correct information. This is extremely important for creating very effective searches in large amounts of data - in all forms of databases.

SENTENSA can be downloaded from the webpage with a web based GUI and with a well defined API.

• Life Sciences
  • Drug Discovery
    Use SENTENSA's intelligence to explore the Medline database. Medline is the world's most comprehensive database of medical articles and scientific reports within Life Sciences. It is imperative that scientists researching new drug candidates can access this data to be up to date with new developments and findings within their research area.
  • Health Care
    Create searching and retrieving methods for patient care. As new methods of treating diseases are tried and tested, it becomes imperative that successful methods are made available to the medical community. Creating a central repository of this information and making it readily available to the medical profession will be beneficial to doctors and patients.
  • Pharmacological / Side Effect Information
    All medicines have side effects on patients. These may be more or less of a problem for those taking the medicine. Given a particular report about side-effects of a medical preparation, you will, within seconds, be able to analyse this report, comparing it with thousands of other reports in a database and weigh up the results. The result will be presented according to how well the reports match. This will help in choosing the best medical preparation for a particular patient.
• Document Storage and Retrieval
  Your central repository of company documents. Many organisations create a large amount of unstructured documentation. Often it is difficult to retrieve particular documents when needed. By using an effective method of storing and retrieving all this documentation, you will save time and effort and run your business more efficiently.
• Media: Newspaper Articles / Press Releases
  Create a service for news or article retrieval. Using SENTENSA's pattern-matching technology, you will easily find similar articles in a press database. The system can also categorize new articles when they are added into the database.
• Business Intelligence / Financial Information
  Search for a company in a region, according to its size, turnover or other criteria. Within a couple of seconds you will be able to analyse this company according to its business activities or annual report compared to millions of other companies. The results will be ranked according to how well they match the search criteria.
• Crime Database
  Build an online library of crime records for fast retrieval and discovery. A big challenge in solving crimes is access to known data about criminals and cases. An efficient method for accessing such information will be a very useful toll in solving crimes. The SENTENSA pattern-matching technology is very useful for analysing an unknown individual's criminal profile against a database of criminals in order to find a match.