Tropes Zoom was a desktop search engine and

semantic Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

analysis software from Acetic/Semantic-Knowledge. Originally written by Pierre Molette in 1994 in partnership with University Paris 8, it was the first

search engine A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages, and other relevant information on World Wide Web, the Web in response to a user's web query, query. The user enters a query in a web browser or a mobile app, and the sea ...

based on

semantic network A semantic network, or frame network is a knowledge base that represents semantic relations between concepts in a network. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices, ...

s to be widely known. Unlike other

search engines Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites have a search facility for online databases. By content/topic Gene ...

, Tropes Zoom suggested that the user replace each identified word with a

hypernym Hypernymy and hyponymy are the semantic relations between a generic term (''hypernym'') and a more specific term (''hyponym''). The hypernym is also called a ''supertype'', ''umbrella term'', or ''blanket term''. The hyponym names a subtype of ...

. Thus, the search is not carried out directly on the words chosen, but on the totality of their

equivalents. It let users group files together by subject, and analyze all the texts dealing with one or several themes within a large collection of documents. Since 2011, Tropes is available as free software under a variant of

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, but Tropes Zoom is not available.According to http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm . Retrieved 15 August 2015.

Tropes Zoom features

The Tropes Zoom suite for

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consisted of five components: * Tropes, a text analysis and semantic classification software. * Zoom, a semantic

. * An integrated

web crawler Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (''web spider ...

, to collect Internet content. * An integrated report writer. * An optional web module (web repository generator).

Tropes text analysis

Tropes is a semantic analysis software designed to extract relevant information from texts. It uses several analysis tools and techniques including: *

Word-sense disambiguation Word-sense disambiguation is the process of identifying which sense of a word is meant in a sentence or other segment of context. In human language processing and cognition, it is usually subconscious. Given that natural language requires ref ...

* Summarization and text style identification * Word

categorization Classification is the activity of assigning objects to some pre-existing classes or categories. This is distinct from the task of establishing the classes themselves (for example through cluster analysis). Examples include diagnostic tests, identi ...

Natural language A natural language or ordinary language is a language that occurs naturally in a human community by a process of use, repetition, and change. It can take different forms, typically either a spoken language or a sign language. Natural languages ...

Ontology Ontology is the philosophical study of existence, being. It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of reality. As one of the most fundamental concepts, being encompasses all of realit ...

manager * Chronological analysis * Real-time graphs and hypertext navigation This software was initially developed in 1994 by Pierre Molette and Agnès Landré on the basis of the work of Rodolphe Ghiglione. Since June 2013, Tropes V8.4 can export results formatted for Gephi (network analysis and visualization software).

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Semantic-Knowledge homepageTropes French Website
Desktop search engines Defunct internet search engines Semantics

Tropes Zoom features

Tropes text analysis

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