AnswerWorks brings natural language processing to your application's Windows


Help or HTML Help, allowing users to get answers to plain language questions. Users


simply type in questions using their own words, and AnswerWorks invisibly analyzes


each question and lists the most pertinent Help topics. The result is faster, easier


and more accurate access to any Help system without guessing which term to use.





AnswerWorks reads every word and sentence in your Help and builds a compact


linguistic image (LIM) file that gets incorporated into your Help system. When an


end-user asks a question, AnswerWorks matches the question against the linguistic


image and displays the most relevant Help topics. The LIM is typically 50 to 90


percent smaller than a full text search file (and much more useful).