Keeping Up With Mobile Search Technology
Longtime provider of semantic search and advertising solutions, VSW has announced that it has launched its VS4Food(TM) search app for mobile phones running on the Android(TM) operating system.
Semantic Risks
In a recent issue focusing on risk one article in Bloomberg Businessweek made the statement, “Such semantics may feel like distinctions without a difference. For underwriters in the specialty market of political-violence insurance, though, they’re crucial.” The semantic distinctions had to do with the labeling of political “protests” in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world. I put “protests” in quotes to draw attention to the issue of semantics and its impact on insurance and risk assessment.
New Medical Coding Changes the Rules of the Playground
Few areas of healthcare are exempt from staring at a deadline that though two years away, isn’t feeling way too close for comfort. To prepare for the change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 providers aren't the only ones impacted by the coding switch. Vendors and payers are also feeling the crunch.
Labeling or Profiling?
Labeling people based on behaviors is not a new technology or even behavior. This has been done since the beginning of time. However, with the advancement of semantic technology and the flood of data available, it has become overwhelming to discern a simplified approach to organization.
Chocolate as a Teaching Tool
Fast Company’s Co.Design shared their Infographic of the Day, “A Visual Taxonomy Of Every Chocolate Candy, Ever”, and it made me smile. Not just for the chocolate and food aspect, though I freely admit both of those categories make me smile, but for the nostalgia it brings to mind.
Semantic Enrichment Solutions
TEMIS has launched the next generation of its flagship semantic content enrichment solution, Luxid(R). This semantic tagging platform automatically extracts relevant information and identifies relationships residing in unstructured data and facilitates links between similar and related documents.
Alfresco Includes Social Media in Their Latest Release
Alfresco has released their latest community version of their platform at JaveOne, Alfresco Community 4, with many new features. Among those features are an improved user interface and tooling to allow support of popular technology trends, such as cloud computing and social media.
New Patent for Indexing System
Decernis receives new patent for an indexing system and method to identify and validate chemicals, foods, and commodities in documents and databases. This innovation enables a user to find any reference to a food, chemical, or contaminant in any language across the Internet.
Taxonomy Made it to the Big Time
Okay, I’ll be the first to admit this particular post is not about hard core business in the world of machine assisted indexing, ontology development or taxonomies. But it is related, somewhat… I just read that a new movie is being made is titled “A Taxonomy of Barnacles.” This interesting information was found on Alt Film Guide.