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BooRah-Rific Foodie ‘Phrase Search’

Looking for the best Pad Thai in town?  Have a craving for some good lobster bisque?  You can now use the BooRah semantic search engine to search-by-phrase to find that perfect restaurant.  Simply go to boorah.com, enter your search term (dish, cuisine, or restaurant name), and your city.

Under the hood of the semantic engine
Each review is semantically analyzed and sentiment references to food (specific dishes, taste, presentation), service, and ambiance are collected.  Positive references are Rahs, negative references are Boos.  When you look for good Pad Thai in San Francisco, the search engine essentially retrieves the list of restaurants with the most number of Rahs for "Pad Thai".

This semantic search engine code is really in "Alpha" stage; so, you may run into a bug now & then.  Please report bugs to bugs[at]boorah[dot]com.  Happy searching.

This entry was posted by Shrisha Radhakrishna on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 4:16 pm and is filed under BooRah. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “BooRah-Rific Foodie ‘Phrase Search’”

  1. Mind Studio - Shrisha Radhakrishna Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 11:23 am

    System generated best-of lists

    Over the next few days, we’ll post a few BooRah NLP system generated best-of restaurant lists. These are essentially lists created by our system based on the ratio of number of positive sentiments to negative sentiments (embodied in user reviews

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