Crowdsourcing Conference Scheduled
As the semantic web continues to develop and grow, it increases the potential to test and challenge the technical and human resources currently supporting it. So the idea of a conference focused specifically on crowdsourcing the semantic web seems appropriate. This interesting event was brought to our attention on WikiCFP in their post, “1st International Workshop on Crowdsourcing the Semantic Web.”
For many of these tasks, machine-driven algorithmic techniques aiming at full automation do not reach a level of accuracy that many production environments require. Enhancing automatic techniques with human computation capabilities is becoming a viable solution in many cases.
Part of the conference will be a “live crowdsourcing exercise” to collectively design an experiment that will be posted on a crowdsourcing platform (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk). The results will be analyzed as a solid example of how to use crowdsourcing for those who are just exploring the field.
More information and registration can be found on their website.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
Proving the Theory
One computer engineer took the subject of his PhD thesis, Propuesta e implementación de una arquitectura genérica para la creación de cursos para Sistemas Tutores Inteligentes (Proposal and Implementation of a generic architecture for the creation of courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems), to create a tool that simplified and “humanized” intelligent tutoring systems. This very interesting news was found on Basque Research in their article, “A tool that enables courses for Intelligent Tutoring Systems to be designed simply and intuitively is created.”
Those in the field of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) are working to apply artificial intelligence techniques to the development of computer-aided learning systems.
In his research work, Héctor Escudero explains that the intelligent tutoring systems we have seen so far are based on creating core rules capable of guiding the student’s learning about a subject. This lacks an interface to allow courses to be created in a straightforward way. It is nice to see educational work serving in a real world situation.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
New Patent for Semantic Social Technology
Intelligent search delivers results based on users’ social media activity. Veveo has been awarded four new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to improve search experiences in the context of current usability trends around social, device based universal search, or semantic and intelligent searching capabilities. This interesting topic was found on TV Technology in their article, “Veveo Adds Four Patents for Semantic Technologies Advancing Usability in Connected Devices.”
Veveo is a longtime provider of semantic technologies for connected devices and applications with intelligent search, discovery and personalization solutions. The patent, entitled “User interface methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user relationships,” covers incremental search capabilities based on relationships of users.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
The Semantics of Banking
One scientist sees the technology of semantics as a solution to better understand and manage big-bank risk profiles. Using the compilation of data by the semantic models, banking professionals will be able to better prepare for regulatory issues and internal risk calculations. American Banker brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Semantics: The Next Big Issue in Big Data.”
Restraining myself from any personal editorializing here, I think we can all agree that better bank management would be a good thing.
Semantic technology requires a special knowledge of terminology and coding to reduce errors. Access Innovations, developer of the M.A.I. machine-assisted indexing system and specializing in complex coding, tagging, and indexing, provides a range of services that deliver tag integrity.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
Application Blocks Aid Customization
Microsoft recently released Enterprise Library (EL) 6.0 with a semantic logging application block. Enterprise Library has a long history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable components to help developers, information architects, and IT professionals efficiently build line-of-business (LOB) systems.
InfoQ brought this news to our attention in their article, “Microsoft Enterprise Library 6.0 Adds Semantic Logging.” Three years after the release of EL 6.0, the Enterprise Library application blocks are standalone but can be combined to work together in order to solve various concerns. You only have to get the ones that you need. They are also customizable and extensible, so you can extend them to provide what you need in your specific contexts.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
Semantic Contributor Recognized
Professor Ronen Feldman, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of text mining as well as co-founder and chief scientist at Digital Trowel, has been selected as one of five finalists to compete for the prestigious 2013 AQR Insight Award.
The AQR Insight Award is sponsored by AQR Capital to recognize outstanding unpublished papers that provide the most significant and practical insights for tax-exempt institutional or investor portfolios.
PRWeb brought this news to our attention in their article, “Digital Trowel’s Ronen Feldman Selected as Finalist for 2013 AQR Award.” The submission from Professor Feldman and three colleagues highlighted the results of The Stock Sonar, a sentiment analysis tool.
The five finalists will present their research to AQR’s investment teams. The award will recognize up to three exceptional papers, and the authors will share a prize of $100,000.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.
Emotional Intelligence
Defining our own emotions is difficult enough, but now Google is working on a semantic natural language technology that will read emotions and meaning from your internet history so your query returns a dynamic and comprehensive result. Search is no longer about just keywords.
Business Insider brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Google Is Working On A Search System That Can Understand Your Emotions.”
Semantic technology requires a special knowledge of terminology and coding to reduce errors. Access Innovations, developer of the M.A.I. machine-assisted indexing system and specializing in complex coding, tagging, and indexing, provides a range of services that deliver tag integrity.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
Semantic Searching
The semantic web is inspiring interest by Fujitsu Ireland and local scientists who are forming a research alliance. Since the semantic web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the inclusion of semantic content in web pages seems a natural fit. Computer World UK brought this information to our attention in their article, “Ireland and Fujitsu aim to cash in on semantic web.”
Fujitsu will begin the research with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), based at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The research will be conducted in the area of networked knowledge, with the identification of new models and commercial opportunities for exploiting static and dynamic data on the Internet. All of this will make the data more accessible and valuable to users.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.
How Has Semantic Technology Reached You?
Remember last year when Google released the Knowledge Graph and everyone was buzzing about what that meant for the future of semantic technology? Well, now is the future; how did it affect you? This interesting topic was found on Search Engine Journal in their article, “Semantic Web: Are You Taking Advantage of Semantic Search?”
Semantic search aims to get at the real intent of the query, rather than simply matching a page to a search string. It would be easy to assume that semantic search will be superior to the word matching, index-based approach.
Google has been using basic synonyms as part of the Knowledge Graph. This thesaurus-approach to zeroing in on the real meaning is based on taxonomy principles.
For comprehensive search results from an enterprise, a solid taxonomy to support indexing is key. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ISO/ANSI/NISO compliant taxonomies to produce comprehensive results.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Data Harmony, a unit of Access Innovations, the world leader in indexing and making content findable.
Semantic Workshop in September
The 9th International IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Workshop on Semantic Web & Web Semantics (SWWS 2013) is being held in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM 2013) between September 9–13, 2013 in Graz, Austria.
Attendees of the event will include researchers, academic, practitioners, IFIP working group WG 2.12/12.4 members, and organizations who are actively involved in present and upcoming semantic web technologies.
The workshop topics that are covered are good reference points for academic and industrial researchers who seek to be more familiar with emerging trends in semantic web research, technologies, and applications.
The conference hosts are an active international community of scientists, engineers, and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in the emerging field of Semantic Web. More information and registration can be found here.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.