Retrieving Images with Ontologies

Medical imagery can be as helpful as medical information. Searching for them may be a little different though. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH are building a large-scale medical image retrieval system for consumers using a medical ontology.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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