Carrot Search develop .NET clustering engine for integration into Shumbi products.

PALO ALTO, CA, Sept. 24, 2009 –Shumbi (www.shumbi.com) has today announced a partnership with Poland based Carrot Search. CEO Justin Staines made the announcement.

“We will be using the .NET clustering engine developed for us by Carrot Search in our own brand products, and white label branded versions for OEMs, ” said Staines.

The .NET clustering engine was created through a partnership with Carrot Search (www.carrot-search.com). Based on the Lingo open source Java clustering engine, Carrot will be releasing the build framework for the .NET version and making it publicly available for other developers to use.

“The excellent quality of clusters generated by Lingo, the ability to cluster in multiple languages and also the very expeditious clustering time, all contributed to our decision to partner with Carro.” said Staines.

The Carrot Lingo.NET clustering engine creates clusters that present real value to the users. It ensures that all meaningful topics are covered and that cluster labels are accurate, concise and unambiguous. The engine clusters text documents on-the-fly and fully automatically, based solely on their content. No learning, semantic knowledge bases, word nets etc. are required.

About Shumbi

Shumbi Ltd., is located in Cambridge, UK and Palo Alto, CA. The company develops, markets and sells electronic management software for all types of information and documents, such as electronic files and web pages. Company founders Justin Staines, Martyn Janes, Tim Haughton and Jenna Norman have over 60 years combined experience working in the computer industry and are alumni of companies like Synaptics, Fedex and Microsoft. Shumbi has a proven reseller business model and has established a global network of Value Added Resellers.

About Carrot

Carrot Search, located in Poznan, Poland, offers document clustering consulting services based on Open Source and proprietary software. Carrot Search clustering technologies are being used in many products and services, such as science.gov, mednar.com, eTools.ch, SurfCanyon, SearchBlox, Apache Solr, Apache Nutch, gceel.com, Struly and Focuseek. Carrot Search is a privately owned company founded by Dawid Weiss and Stanislaw Osinski, who are the authors of the Carrot2 Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine.
Dawid Weiss, PhD, is an associate professor at the Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poland. Master of Science in Computer Science. Stanislaw Osinski graduated with a Master of Science in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude from Poznan University of Technology, Poland and holds a Master of Science with Distinction in Advanced Software Engineering, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

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