Exapia remembers context

Like humans, Exapia tries to understand the context in which a question is being asked. For instance, the meaning of the question "What's going on in America" depends not only on who is asking the question but also may depend on previous questions that the user has asked in the same session. If previous questions have asked, for example, about technology inventions in the UK then this context can be fed into the question about America.

Exapia deals with context in two ways. Firstly though the personal profile to determine the user's general preferences and the user's specific context for the search. Secondly, Exapia remembers the questions that the user asks and can build a local context for the question from them.

This function has been developed from years of research into how people search for information.