Posts by Melody Smith
Setting Records
Sysomos is celebrating the indexing of 100,000,000,000 social posts. This milestone of collecting social media data in real time from various sources such as blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and news sources is equivalent of 14 times the population of the Earth. Now we know why they say perspective is everything.
Read MoreMarjorie Hlava Presents Keynote Speech at 23rd Annual SIG/CR Workshop
On October 26, 2012, Access Innovations, Inc. president Marjorie M.K. Hlava presented an afternoon keynote speech at the 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, part of the American Society for Information Science and Technology’s 75th annual meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Read MoreFinancial Taxonomy Consistency
The European accounting body plans to increase efforts to improve electronic scanning of company reports. This comes after criticism from the United States. We found this interesting news on London South East in their article, “Accounting body to improve machine reading of filings.”
Read MoreAwards Given for Technology Contribution
KMWorld Magazine’s judging panel has chosen its “KM Promise and Reality” award winners from among the many nominations they received. KM World brought this news to us in their article, “KMWorld 2012 Promise and Reality award winners and finalists.” Cambridge Semantics was the winner of the KMWorld Promise Award. Cambridge is the developer of the Anzo…
Read MoreWatson is Going to School
The supercomputer named Watson was a big hit last year when it became famous for beating two Jeopardy! champions. By using its IBM natural language processor, it perused its vast reams of knowledge to respond the oral questions. Now, Watson will help medical students at Cleveland Clinic analyze medical problems and develop evidence-based solutions. By using its base of medical knowledge, it will be a valuable partner to medical students. In return, students will help improve Watson’s language and domain analysis capabilities. So medical students and Watson will benefit from each other’s strengths and expertise.
Read MorePredictive Video Analysis with Semantic Technology
Researchers have developed a video surveillance system that intends to use artificial intellgience to reason about human activity. This project was funded by the US Army and is keyed to flag abnormal behaviour.
Read MorePartnering for Powerful Search
A new partnership between Concept Searching and Triune Group will result in an integrated intelligent search and classification capability. Triune Group has integrated its knowledge management expertise and technology solutions with Concept Searching’s intelligent search and classification capability.
Read MoreMethodologies for Taxonomy and Thesaurus Creation
When you are building a thesaurus, you can build it from the original text or from a new intellectual area. You can build from an existing vocabulary or from an existing topic. You can do a combination of the two. What often happens is that you take your text and apply it to a taxonomy you think might be fairly parallel, and then you customize it to meet your own needs. That is very common practice and it gets you there faster.
Read MoreNew Semantic Technology Gets Funding
The web service, Silk, has received funding from Silicon Valley royalty to build out its vision of connecting the world via semantic technology. This significant investment into a self-service semantic engine that can help companies and individuals understand, drill down, and work with data, documents, and content is a milestone for this corporation.
Read MoreAward Recognizes Innovations in Technology
Jim Hendler has been honored with an inaugural Strata Data Innovation Award. The honoree is the head of the Department of Computer Science and senior constellation professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The award is given to individuals who have made significant innovations in the data field.
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