Company:Shamra Search Engine
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| Founded | September 6, 2015 |
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| Founders | Shadi Saleh |
| Headquarters | Syria |
| Website | shamra |
Shamra Search Engine is a Syrian web search that was launched in September 6 2015 [1]. Shamra was built using Information Retrieval technologies and Arabic NLP. [2] The name Shamra was inspired by the village of Ras Shamra where Ugarit alphabets was discovered in 1929.
In March 2019, Shamra Search Engine was presented by the ministry of communication and technology in Syria as a show-case of the digital development in Syria during the meeting of the United Nations - Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.[3]
Team and Founder
According to company page in crunchbase, the search engine was founded by Shadi Saleh who is a PhD. student in Charles University in Prague [4], and the team contains around 20 employees [5].
Products and services
Web search
Web search service focuses on the Syrian Arabic content.
Places
Shamra Places provides listing of place entities in Syria, where users can contribute to the data by adding new places, voting on other's contribution and suggesting editing existing information.[6]
Scholars Search
Shamra Academia was launched in 27th of December 2015, a few months after the launch of Shamra search engine. Shamra Academia enables search in the Academic publications from scientific publishers in the Syrian universities. The publications are first indexed into categories, each indexed item contains the title of the publication in Arabic and English languages together with its abstract and meta information about authors, date of publications, and the main keywords. [7] [8]
In 2017, there were around 3,913 indexed scientific papers in the platform [9], while in the 13th of July 2020, the number increased to 8,666 as shown in the service homepage [7]
News Aggregator
Classified Advertising
Shamra offers free classified advertising listing in Syria, wherein each ads can contain basic information and an attached image. The platform is location-based service which allows filtering listed ads based on a specific location.[10]
Machine Translation
Technologies and Methods
Shamra shares their technologies and recent researches in search engine and mehtods they use to develop the search engine in their official blog: Shamra Blog
References
- ↑ "Shamra.. The first national search engine launched to enrich Syrian digital content on internet". SANA - Syrian Arab News Agency. https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=65033.
- ↑ Leidner, Jochen L. (31 July 2019). "Syria’s First Web Search Engine: An Interview with Shadi Saleh". https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2019/07/syrias-first-web-search-engine-an-interview-with-shadi-saleh-2/.
- ↑ "Session 2 on Digital Development: issues related to Digital Economy, Empowerment, Trade and Employment". https://www.unescwa.org/special-events/session-2-digital-development-issues-related-digital-economy-empowerment-trade-and-employment.
- ↑ "Shadi Saleh | ÚFAL". Charles University in Prague. https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/shadisaleh.
- ↑ "Shamra search engine - محرك البحث شمرا". Crunchbase. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shamra-search-engine.
- ↑ "Shamra Places" (in ar). https://shamra.sy/places/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Shamra.. The first national search engine launched to enrich Syrian digital content on internet". SANA. https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=65033.
- ↑ "Shamra Academia". Shamra. https://shamra.sy/academia/.
- ↑ Skaf, Wadie (4 September 2018). "Introducing “Shamra Academia”, the Academic Arabic search engine" (in en). https://medium.com/@wadieskaf/shamra-academia-db1d6504af93.
- ↑ "Shamra Classified Ads". https://shamra.sy/offers/.
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