My Research Assistant

My Research Assistant: Find Information on the web in half the time!

With My Research Assistant you can just enter a topic or ask a question and the system will search the Web gathering information on your topic. Unlike search engines, My RA will return passages of text taken from within the pages it searched. This way you can get right to the information you need without reading through many, many web pages. My RA was designed to facilitate the research process in a number of ways...

Quick results

My RA contains a Fast 5 component that instantly retrieves the top five passages found after a systematic comparison between your question and the retrieved web pages.

Get answers

Other search engines just find which pages contains the keywords you typed in. My RA finds the most relevant passages within the page for you so you don't have to read through the whole page to get to the information you need.

Organize

My RA organizes everything as it composes your answer. The system uses a Folders Panel to place the gathered text passages into an easy to use folder tree. By expanding the folders you can focus in on the text passages from this organized view.

Visualize

With My RA, you don't just wade through paragraphs of text. My RA's advanced Visual Panel allows you to manipulate your results and view an abstract model of your answer. The Visual Panel facilities fast access and filtering of all of the passages in your answer space. The system visually represents text passages using Passage Icons.