Melody Smith

Surfing the Semantic Web

By Melody Smith | July 11, 2012

Even though the definition of the semantic web may still up for debate, many of us use it or its close cousin on a daily basis. They are not advertised as semantic, but services such as Apple’s Siri and Google’s new Knowledge Graph all use semantics to drive their technology.

Partnering to Address ICD-10 Transition

By Melody Smith | July 11, 2012

Edifecs, Inc. was chosen by Molina Healthcare as a strategic technology partner to address the ICD-10 coding classification transition.

New Integration Increases Findability

By Melody Smith | July 11, 2012

EBSCO Publishing and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. have expanded their collaboration by enabling a more tightly integrated access between EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and Innovative’s Encore discovery platform.

Apple Looking to Connect Metadata and Social Networks

By Melody Smith | July 10, 2012

Apple has recently filed a patent application that describes a method for obtaining and adding metadata to files automatically using the Internet and various social networks. This interesting approach demonstrates Apple’s interest in creating connections with social networks.

MAVIS Breaking Walls in Technology

By Melody Smith | July 10, 2012

Real-time, speaker-independent, automatic speech recognition was a focus of Microsoft Research, and the result produced the Deep-Neural-Network Speech Recognition based MAVIS. MAVIS (Microsoft Audio Video Indexing Service) indexes audio and video content and then allows users to search for a particular word or phrase across the entire content.

Quantum Addresses Large e-Discovery Project

By Melody Smith | July 10, 2012

Quantum Discovery recently assisted a Top 100 Law Firm on an e-discovery project and document review with a data set containing approximately 415GB of email and network data. The approximately 2 million records could easily have overwhelmed any team using the traditional search term approach, but Quantum Discovery utilized Lateral Data’s Viewpoint TAR (Technology Assisted Review).

Semantic Networks

By Melody Smith | July 9, 2012 |

Semantic networks provide structure to a set of concepts, as a network or a web. They are often defined as graph representations of the relationships among a set of concepts. In a larger sense, in the world of computer science, they are a set of concepts with relationships that are defined in such a way that computers, or the World Wide Web, can work with those relationships.

Healthcare Plate is Getting Full

By Melody Smith | July 9, 2012

Folks like the American Medical Association are constantly referring to how complicated the ICD-10 implementation will be. We all know the stakes are high if healthcare providers don’t get it right. If only that was all the healthcare community had to deal with right now.

LDS Continually Indexing

By Melody Smith | July 9, 2012

Almost as famous as their sponsor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), FamilySearch International is a non-profit organization known for their extensive indexed geneology collections. They continually add the collections of family records from around the world. Current indexing projects can be viewed online. Each project is posted with a unique set of indexing guidelines and interesting facts.