Ultimate Research Assistant

The Ultimate Research Assistant is a combination search engine and summarization tool for writers, students, educators, and researchers. It uses a combination of traditional search engine technology and text mining techniques to facilitate online research of complex topics. Think of the Ultimate Research Assistant as "Google meets Wikipedia" - you type in your search query and get back a dynamically-generated Wikipedia-style article for your search results rather than the typical list of document links.

What makes the Ultimate Research Assistant different (and better) than existing search engines like Google is its ability to actually "read" the documents in the underlying search results and write a concise Wikipedia-style report summarizing your search topic. This saves you a significant amount of time, in that you don't have to click through pages of search results to find the nuggets of knowledge buried within multiple documents.

The Ultimate Research Assistant also provides sophisticated theme / concept visualizations of your search topic including mind maps, tag clouds, and bar charts. It provides tools for drilling down for more detail into specific themes and concepts, and performing secondary searches on specific sub-topics.