Documentation about Fermi search

Hi

Is **Fermi Search** TR specific term ? If so, what would be a generic name in computer science jargon that I could use to look up documentation online. Google returns *Enrico Fermi* when searching for **fermi search algorithm**

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mark.maruska

[Fermi](http://nsawiki.int.westgroup.com/wiki/index.php/Fermi) (aka WestSearch technology) is a search enhancement system from TR's R&D folks. It helps provide the global search capability in WestlawNext.

mark.maruska

Searching for Fermi should be done on TR documentation sites (like TheHub, NSAWiki, etc).

Erik Hyrkas

Mark's description and link definitely work for me, but here's a bit more detail.

"Fermi algorithm" has become a phrase used often within TR to simply mean an R&D algorithm tailored to a specific set of content types. Unfortunately, you cannot take the algorithm and apply it generically to any old data. It is tailored by researchers to the content that you are working with. It isn't a replacement for a natural language search, but rather an enhancement on the discovery and ranking of results. At a 10,000 foot level, it focuses on the relationships of documents and the identification of classifications and concepts, which it can use to find and rank documents that align with those criteria.

Right off the page Mark linked, you can see a conceptional flow of how the search algorithm works:
[http://nsawiki.int.westgroup.com/wiki/index.php/Fermi_Algorithm_-_Generic_Report_Builder_Flow][1]

[1]: http://nsawiki.int.westgroup.com/wiki/index.php/Fermi_Algorithm_-_Generic_Report_Builder_Flow

shaggyalien

Thanks Eric, I saw the wiki page. It is breif and barely has anywords in it.
It serves as an introduction to Fermi. Do you know of any documentation that explains it in depth.

Ryan Morlok

It's slightly ironic that we are having trouble searching for FERMI documentation ;-)

shaggyalien

Well, to be honest, the documentation is very terse IMO. While reverse engineering is underrated, it does take a bit of time to do it and every developer would end up reinventing the wheel.

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