Taxodiary – 2012

Watson is Going to School

By Melody Smith|November 15th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Watson is Going to School

The supercomputer named Watson was a big hit last year when it became famous for beating two Jeopardy! champions. By using its IBM natural language processor, it perused its vast reams of knowledge to respond the oral questions. Now, Watson will help medical students at Cleveland Clinic analyze medical problems and develop evidence-based solutions. By using its base of medical knowledge, it will be a valuable partner to medical students. In return, students will help improve Watson's language and domain analysis capabilities. So medical students and Watson will benefit from each other's strengths and expertise.

Predictive Video Analysis with Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith|November 14th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Predictive Video Analysis with Semantic Technology

Researchers have developed a video surveillance system that intends to use artificial intellgience to reason about human activity. This project was funded by the US Army and is keyed to flag abnormal behaviour.

Partnering for Powerful Search

By Melody Smith|November 13th, 2012|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Partnering for Powerful Search

A new partnership between Concept Searching and Triune Group will result in an integrated intelligent search and classification capability. Triune Group has integrated its knowledge management expertise and technology solutions with Concept Searching’s intelligent search and classification capability.

Methodologies for Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation

By Melody Smith|November 12th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, Taxonomy|1 Comment

When you are building a thesaurus, you can build it from the original text or from a new intellectual area. You can build from an existing vocabulary or from an existing topic. You can do a combination of the two. What often happens is that you take your text and apply it to a taxonomy you think might be fairly parallel, and then you customize it to meet your own needs. That is very common practice and it gets you there faster.

New Semantic Technology Gets Funding

By Melody Smith|November 12th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on New Semantic Technology Gets Funding

The web service, Silk, has received funding from Silicon Valley royalty to build out its vision of connecting the world via semantic technology. This significant investment into a self-service semantic engine that can help companies and individuals understand, drill down, and work with data, documents, and content is a milestone for this corporation.

Award Recognizes Innovations in Technology

By Melody Smith|November 9th, 2012|News, semantic, Technology|Comments Off on Award Recognizes Innovations in Technology

Jim Hendler has been honored with an inaugural Strata Data Innovation Award. The honoree is the head of the Department of Computer Science and senior constellation professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The award is given to individuals who have made significant innovations in the data field.

New Social Search in Use

By Melody Smith|November 9th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on New Social Search in Use

Eventster is a new application that aggregates events and then further differentiates them using semantic technologies. The result is additional information to help you identify events you want to attend, and those you don't.

The Shift in Reading Behavior

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 2012|News, Technology|1 Comment

National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) members may be interested in a report stemming from a survey of 19,000 individuals conducted by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger. The report came from a 6-month research project and has the backing of leading publishers within International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), Humanities and Social Science. It compares the changing reader behaviour between 2005 and 2012 and as a result looks at the impact on publisher and library web site design and function.

Semantic Technology Used in the Campaigns

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Used in the Campaigns

With the election now over, the yard signs and television advertisements can disappear and none too soon. However, Expert System did a linguistic and semantic analysis of the third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and challenger, former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney and have released the highlights. It is interesting to see semantic technology used in such a way.

Proper Information Architecture

By Melody Smith|November 7th, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Proper Information Architecture

There is a lot of discussion about proper information architecture going on out there. Experts believe an effective information architecture best reflects the most common vernacular of the organization — the most used or common words for describing things. This is key to a successful site as it provides a blueprint or map for navigating.

Monthly Archives: November 2012