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NASA Science Discovery Engine adopts Sinequa

July 26, 2023

NASA's Science Mission Directorate has partnered with Sinequa to use its enterprise search platform to support the NASA Science Discovery Engine (SDE), leveraging the system's neural search functions and natural language processing, according to a press release.

The SDE was developed by teams from NASA and Sinequa to support five priority areas of the Directorate, including Astrophysics, Biological and Physical Sciences, Earth Sciences, Heliophysics and Planetary Sciences.

The system aims to allow users to retrieve information from over 84,000 records and more than 715,000 documents across 128 different information sources, including websites, data and document repositories; it has also been integrated with over 44,500 scientific software programs, models and tools.

"The Science Discovery Engine helps NASA scientists and research teams around the world find information in seconds instead of minutes or hours," Ulf Zetterberg, Co-CEO at Sinequa, said in the release. "We are proud to partner with NASA to improve productivity across the organization. Shared research knowledge is the only way in which science, technology and innovation can flourish, and we are excited to contribute to that."