Originally written by Pierre Molette in 1994 in partnership with University Paris 8, it was the first search engine based on semantic networks to be widely known.
Unlike other search engines, Tropes Zoom suggested that the user replace each identified word with a hypernym.
It let users group files together by subject, and analyze all the texts dealing with one or several themes within a large collection of documents.
It uses several analysis tools and techniques including: This software was initially developed in 1994 by Pierre Molette and Agnès Landré on the basis of the work of Rodolphe Ghiglione.
Since June 2013, Tropes V8.4 can export results formatted for Gephi (network analysis and visualization software).