Concept Searching Introduces Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Discovery Solution

Nov. 14, 2008 - PRLog -- Concept Searching, developers of concept based search, automatic classification, semantic metadata generation, and taxonomy management software have announced the availability of FOIAdiscovery, a solution that augments current FOIA processes and reduces the time and money government agencies spend in processing FOIA requests.  

In 2006, the U.S. government made 20 million classification decisions.  Responding to FOIA requests in a timely fashion and ensuring government compliance can be complex and costly.  As more and more content is created and published the agency faces increasing costs to manage and integrate that content.  Proper document marking of security classification may take a few hours or several weeks.  The challenge of managing, finding and purposing that content efficiently costs the public sector time and money.

FOIAdiscovery automatically generates compound term metadata from diverse repositories and automatically classifies it to the agency’s taxonomy.  The taxonomy tool is easily maintained and modified by subject matter experts.  Once classified, when FOIA requests are being processed, the search features deliver the ability to identify concepts as well as keywords from within documents, regardless of where it is stored to facilitate the FOIA process and expedite the resolution to the request.  The solution delivers real value to government agencies helping them become more agile, and assists agencies in reducing costs, reducing manpower, and increasing productivity in the processing of FOIA requests.  

“We have an ever growing list of public sector clients and recognized a need to address the challenges the government is facing with the exponential increase in digital information and FOIA requests,” explained Martin Garland, President.  “FOIAdiscovery is rapidly deployed, fully customizable, and intuitive for the end user.  Government entities can realize a reduction in the time and costs associated with FOIA, legal, and discovery requests.”

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Founded in 2002, Concept Searching’s software products deliver advanced search, auto-classification, taxonomy management and advanced metadata tagging solutions from the desktop to the enterprise. Concept Searching is the only statistical metadata generation and classification software company in the world that uses concept extraction and compound term processing to significantly improve access to unstructured information. Headquartered in the U.K. with offices in the U.S. and South Africa, Concept Searching solves the problem of finding, organizing, and managing information capital. For more information about Concept Searching’s solutions and technologies please visit www.conceptsearching.com.