Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for semantically enriching content and for semantic navigation

A system for semantically enriching content for semantic navigation, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• and
• instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium and translatable by the processor for:
• ingesting content from a plurality of data sources;
• operating a semantic index, the semantic index supporting indexing that combines features and functions of both keyword indexing and semantic indexing;
• determining semantic metadata from the content ingested from the plurality of data sources;
• enriching the content with the semantic metadata thus determined, wherein the enriching the content includes creating a first semantic facet from the semantic metadata;
• storing the semantic metadata in the semantic index, the content enriched with the semantic metadata searchable via the semantic index;
• receiving a search query from a client application operating on a client computer;
• retrieving results from the semantic index responsive to the search query, wherein the results include the first semantic facet created from the semantic metadata at the enriching;
• and
• responsive to the search query, presenting faceted search results, the presenting including, responsive to the search query, instantiating a second semantic facet from the semantic metadata, the faceted search results including the first semantic facet of the results and the second semantic facet instantiated from the semantic metadata at the presenting responsive to the search query.

A computer program product for semantically enriching content for semantic navigation, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions translatable by a processor for:

• ingesting content from a plurality of data sources;
• operating a semantic index, the semantic index supporting indexing that combines features and functions of both keyword indexing and semantic indexing;
• determining semantic metadata from the content ingested from the plurality of data sources;
• enriching the content with the semantic metadata thus determined, wherein the enriching the content includes creating a first semantic facet from the semantic metadata;
• storing the semantic metadata in the semantic index, the content enriched with the semantic metadata searchable via the semantic index;
• receiving a search query from a client application operating on a client computer;
• retrieving results from the semantic index responsive to the search query, wherein the results include the first semantic facet created from the semantic metadata at the enriching;
• and
• responsive to the search query, presenting faceted search results, the presenting including, responsive to the search query, instantiating a second semantic facet from the semantic metadata, the faceted search results including the first semantic facet of the results and the second semantic facet instantiated from the semantic metadata at the presenting responsive to the search query.