This sounds interesting, Apparently, IBM Research has developed a ‘key facts’ search technology (as distinct from ‘key words’) over the last several years. Now they’re going public with it — by putting it on SourceForge under an OSS license!”

The corporate data search framework being made available to other software developers is the result of more than four years of development by IBM Research, with contributions from researchers at top U.S. universities, and support from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), IBM said.

Source Reuters, via Slashdot