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Semantic Search for Employers
Monster – the famous job recruiting website – has added new features designed specifically for small to medium-sized employers. This advanced search technology called, SeeMore, allows employers to manage resumes with more efficiency and ultimately hire talent sooner.
Read MorePlease Bear with Us
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Read MoreYou Cannot Classify Unless You Connect
October 4, 2010 — One of the facts of classification and indexing is that one has to have access to the content. Most users of a system assume that any content in an organization is available in an electronic system. That assumption is incorrect. The reason is that certain systems use a proprietary file format…
Read MoreField by Any Other Name
July 26, 2010 — In one of the chatty podcasts about software engineering, one of the commentators pointed out that metadata was one of the most critical aspects of information governance. We agree. The chatter continued and another podcast voice mentioned that there was a relationship between database field names and metadata. I realized that…
Read MoreMicrosoft and Its Taxonomy of Intents
July 19, 2010 — Xiaosin Yin and Sarthak Shah wrote a paper published in April 2010, “Building Taxonomy of Web Search Intents for Name Entity Queries.” We revisited this paper because Yahoo announced that it was considering a service that used popular queries for a new Yahoo news service. You can read a summary of…
Read MoreGartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
July 13, 2010 — Taxonomies and content management are often joined in a shotgun marriage. The CMS vendors have idiosyncratic methods of tagging, indexing, and manipulating hierarchies. The taxonomy professionals usually get a phone call or email asked for some help. Usually the message contains the phrase “It’s no big deal” or “We don’t have…
Read MoreBest Buy and Semantic Technology
July 13, 2010 — A recent article in ReadWriteWeb has taken the cloak off semantic technology and shown us that there are focused applications that work in the real world. Consider the case that Best Buy is starting to use the technology to gain a foothold on the competition. Basically, the technology works with the…
Read MoreTaxonomy Survey 2008: A Moment in Time
July 13, 2010 — One of our readers sent us a link to a 2008 presentation by Razorfish about taxonomies. The slides are on Slideshare at this link; however, you may have to register. We were able to view the 66 slide deck in our browser. Several points jumped out of the 2008 presentation, which…
Read MoreOntology Lookup Service
July 6, 2010 — If you want to locate a gene ontology term, point your browser to the European Bioinformatics Institute and its Ontology Lookup Service. Enter the term names of search by term ID. If you don’t know what a “term ID” is, the service won’t be of much use to you. OLS, a spin-off of an…
Read MoreYahoo and Popularity Driven News
July 6, 2010 — Access Innovations, the sponsor of this post, is in the indexing and classification business. Humans have grouped events, people, and information for millennia. We read with interest the New York Times article about search and the Softpedia commentary. When you read this, the New York Times article will not be easily available.…
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