EK’s Urmi Majumder and Madeleine Powell jointly delivered the presentation ‘Semantic Maturity Spectrum: Search with Context’ at the MarkLogic World Conference on September 24, 2024.

Semantic search has long proven to be a powerful tool in creating intelligent search experiences. By leveraging a semantic data model, it can effectively understand the searcher’s intent and the contextual meaning of the terms to improve search accuracy. In this session, Majumder and Powell presented case studies for three different organizations across three different industries (finance, pharmaceuticals, and federal research) that started their semantic search journey at three very different maturity levels. For each case study, they described the business use case, solution architecture, implementation approach, and outcomes. Finally, Majumder and Powell rounded out the presentation with a practical guide to getting started with semantic search projects using the organization’s current maturity in the space as a starting point.