Is Semantic Search Trendy?

September 6, 2011 / Melody Smith /

Semantic search and extraction of data from natural language and pictures are continuing to increase in popularity. As evidence of that trend, Hewlett-Packard recently confirmed rumors that it would acquire Autonomy, a semantic technology company.

Media Post’s Search Blog brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Semantic Search And Raw Data On Rise.” Autonomy makes software that searches and keeps track of unstructured data in databases and on Web sites. This move puts Hewlett-Packard, primarily a hardware organization, in the software field.

Using natural language processing, or semantic technology, has never been more popular. However, it does require 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 taxonomies, metadata, and semantic enrichment to make your content findable.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

1 Comment

  1. Dave Danielson on September 6, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    Melody,
    At Digital Reasoning we are extracting actionable information, connections with people/places/organizations, aliases and synonyms out of unstructured text *without* the “special knowledge of terminology and coding” that you speak of. We are also doing this in multiple languages. I would be happy to share more with you about how this is done if you or your audience are interested.