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Stratify reports the new version of its unstructured data management system, Discovery System 2.0, includes features that focus on automatically building, refining and optimizing taxonomies, as well as consistently classifying documents with a high degree of accuracy and leveraging information contained in the taxonomy. Further, says the company, 2.0 includes the Stratify Taxonomy Manager, which provides an integrated, unified interface for total taxonomy lifecycle management.

Version 2.0 automates the process of organizing unstructured information by using the structure implicit in documents to construct an easy-to-navigate taxonomy customized for a business, says Stratify. The company says that customers that use custom, industry standard or third party taxonomies--or organize their information using a file server or web server--the system can directly import that existing work and automatically extend it.

The system uses multiple classification technologies that operate in parallel to classify documents more accurately than systems that depend on a single classification technology, claims Stratify. The company goes on to say its technology compares and combines the results from each classifier to produce the best possible classifications. In addition to Stratify's statistical, keyword and source classifiers, a new Boolean classifier is built on the Discovery System's extensible architecture

The Taxonomy Manager provides a single interface that unifies all taxonomy and classification management tasks. Simplifying the workflow across the taxonomy lifecycle, says Stratify, the Taxonomy Manager enables users throughout an enterprise to easily collaborate on all taxonomy lifecycle tasks, including the ability to:

• create taxonomies,

• define classification models,

• test and assess classification models,

• refine and optimize taxonomies and classification models, and,

• publish taxonomies and classify documents.

The Discovery System supports Western European languages as well as Arabic.