Melody Smith

About 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.

Recognition for Semantic Technology

By |June 27th, 2013|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Recognition for Semantic Technology

FeedBooster has been awarded a “Best Of 2013″ solution in Knowledge Management by Initiative Mittelstand. FeedBooster’s web-based feed reader is powered by Q-Sensei’s search and indexing technology.

AI, Semantics, and Other Technology

By |June 27th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on AI, Semantics, and Other Technology

Artificial intelligence continues to tease even the most scientific professionals. The idea of a man-made technology that can rival human intelligence in processing and understanding is the brass ring for many. So it was no surprise when IBM’s Watson fascinated technologists during its performance on Jeopardy in 2011. Interestingly, many searches on Google are done in the form of questions. If the search engine had a better understanding of the natural language, the ability to answer questions would be enhanced. This interesting topic was discussed on the Seeking Alpha blog in their post, “The Search Engine Of The Future.”

Better Diagnostic Categories Desired

By |June 27th, 2013|News|Comments Off on Better Diagnostic Categories Desired

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) has announced that the DSM-5 diagnostic manual project will not be the focus of their work. With only weeks before the launch, the NIMH said, it will be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”. Those familiar with this project find this move somewhat surprising.

The Value of Indexing

By |June 26th, 2013|indexing, News|Comments Off on The Value of Indexing

Family-Search is a worldwide archive project provided free by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Recently they celebrated a milestone of mammoth proportions when they reached the one billion mark of historical recoards having been transferred from hand-written archives to online documents, much of this achieved by volunteers.

Looking Forward with Ontologies

By |June 25th, 2013|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on Looking Forward with Ontologies

Detecting defects in ontologies has always been important, but with the increased use of ontologies and ontology mappings in semantically-enabled applications, the importance has increased exponentially.

Choose the Right Tools

By |June 25th, 2013|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Choose the Right Tools

Version 1.0 of TokuMX, a version of MongoDB that has its storage layer replaced with Tokutek's storage engine, has been released.

John Kuranz Brings 30+ Years’ Expertise to Access Integrity

By |June 24th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on John Kuranz Brings 30+ Years’ Expertise to Access Integrity

Access Innovations is proud to announce John Kuranz as chief executive officer of its newest endeavor, Access Integrity — which employs Access Innovations’ award-winning Data Harmony software suite to the medical coding and billing industries.