No Ontology? Hmpf!

March 9, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on No Ontology? Hmpf!

Lucky Sort is building a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch meant for discovering patterns in live data streams. Information overload may soon become a thing of the past with this new product. Imagine sifting through social media, government filings, news, and commentary in real time, on your iPad.

Tech Crunch brought this fascinating information to our attention in their article, “Lucky Sort Grabs Half A Million For Big Data Visualization On Web & iPad.” TopicWatch is not yet another sentiment analysis or social listening platform and it isn’t just for public data. Users are also able to import their own text content into the platform, and then analyze that alongside other data. The system uses NLP (natural language processing) that favors statistics and user input over ontologies. This is a radical concept for those of us who believe in the value of a solid ontology. It will be interesting to see how this works out.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.

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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.