tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910575.post706700287998803821..comments2023-10-04T11:35:50.986-04:00Comments on Out of the Jungle: Xyggy?James Milleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368391001719650329noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910575.post-49457121139098037162009-11-23T17:38:06.274-05:002009-11-23T17:38:06.274-05:00Hi Betsy
Item-search is a marvel and I fully unde...Hi Betsy<br /><br />Item-search is a marvel and I fully understand your curiosity but I have to disappoint as we cannot discuss what's going on under Xyggy's hood but I will explain how to use it.<br /><br />Using Xyggy Legal, begin to enter a citation number or a portion of the named parties in the autocomplete box. A list of matching cases will appear to choose from. If the case of interest isn't in the list, enter all or more of the citation or enter more of the named parties. The list of matching cases will dynamically change as you enter more of the query.<br /><br />When the case of interest appears in the list, click on it and the results will appear showing all similar cases in ranked order. Mousing-over the results will pop-up a summary window showing the citation, parties, court, docket and date information for each case. Clicking on a result will open a different browser window to display the text of the case.<br /><br />At this point, the user has two options: click the 'clear' button to start a new query or continue by entering another case to the query. This is accomplished as above but underneath the first query item. In fact, you can enter multiple cases per query. The concept of finding similar cases to more than one case is something we do in our everyday lives. For example, if I'm searching a pile of case documents by hand, I'll pull out every case of interest and keep looking for similar cases. Each time an item is added to the Xyggy query the results are updated automatically. As before, clicking the 'clear' button will start a new query.<br /><br />Today, a Xyggy query contains "known" items (for example, selected by citation number or parties in Xyggy Legal) but a future interface will expand the capability to help make Xyggy work even better for you.<br /><br />Hope this helps.<br /><br />DineshUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570083132483784714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910575.post-78612176854300021912009-11-23T14:45:21.650-05:002009-11-23T14:45:21.650-05:00Dinesh, you frustrate me! I want to understand wh...Dinesh, you frustrate me! I want to understand what is happening beneath the hood at Xyggy. Is the algorithm working upon the entire document? Fine! But what is it doing with the damned thing? Explain it to me, I beg of you. I would love to have a conversation. I do not need or want to get to the level of code, or breaking your industrial secrets. But I am curious about how it works because when I understand that, I can make it work better for me & my patrons. I can teach it to my students better. Please explain a bit better than the opaque marketing statements you repeat here!Betsy McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824582240163409553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14910575.post-71931424303156730862009-11-22T17:29:54.560-05:002009-11-22T17:29:54.560-05:00Hi Betsy
In the information retrieval spectrum, i...Hi Betsy<br /><br />In the information retrieval spectrum, item-search and text-search (and related technologies such as NLP, semantic, LSA etc.) lie at opposite ends. With item-search you are literally passing an entire document as the query. In fact with Xyggy, queries can contain one or more documents and it will find all similar documents in ranked order. Xyggy is a different search paradigm and as such is not comparable to how text-search works.<br /><br />Text-search with or without advanced options finds documents containing the query keywords. But, do users want to find documents with specific keywords or do they want to find similar documents? Maybe they want to do both but only the former option has been available to date.<br /><br />As an aside, imagine the day when you could ask a library search system to find similar books and journal articles - Xyggy has the platform to deliver such services.<br /><br />We look forward to receiving feedback from law professionals and students about Xyggy Legal.<br /> <br />Dinesh<br />CEO & Founder<br />www.xyggy.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570083132483784714noreply@blogger.com