When To Use Semantic Technology

May 20, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on When To Use Semantic Technology

This interesting use, or not, of semantic technology caught my attention. Sometimes the accuracy of semantic analysis is in question and the topic in this specific situation could create even more suspicion. The students and professors at Humboldt State University avoided that by reading each of the 150,000 geo-coded tweets to produce a map revealing geographic differences in hate speech regarding, homophobia, racism, and specially challenged topics. The Guardian brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Mapping hate speech: homophobia and racism on twitter.”

By using humans instead of semantic analysis for this research, the researchers were able to ensure a higher level of quality and preciseness. This approach was interesting and the results equally so. Take time to look at the map. It is somewhat sobering.

Melody K. Smith

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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.