Melody Smith

Natural Language Processing Focus of Singapore Symposium

By Melody Smith | June 16, 2011

The Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine will be held in December in Singapore. This interesting forum will address natural languages as a means of scientific and professional communication.

Data – Burden or Asset?

By Melody Smith | June 15, 2011

The trend these days is for organizations to treat data like a burden instead of the valuable asset that should be treated as such. Therefore, the focus is on how to reduce the cost of this burden instead of maximizing the opportunity.

Informatica 9.1 Garners Support

By Melody Smith | June 15, 2011

Informatica Corporation has announced overwhelming industry support for Informatica 9.1, the industry’s first unified data integration platform designed to unleash the full business potential of Big Data to empower the data centric-enterprise.

Loudoun Mutual Insurance Implements Document Management Strategy

By Melody Smith | June 15, 2011

Loudoun Mutual Insurance Company has engaged KeyMark Inc. to engineer and implement a document management solution to gain greater efficiencies and improve processes.

Taxonomies Should Not Be Postponed

By Melody Smith | June 14, 2011

WorthPoint is a known provider of valuation and associated services for art, antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint Forums provide access to expert options and debates regarding the world of collecting. Together, they are integrated with the company’s price guide, Worthopedia, which contains over 90 million items. With that volume of content, a taxonomy is definitely in order.

New Version of ontoprise Products Released

By Melody Smith | June 14, 2011

Karlsruhe has released OntoBroker 6.1 and OntoStudio 3.1 as part of the ontoprise product suite, the only infrastructure supporting all major W3C SemanticWeb recommendations including OWL, RDF(s), RIF and ObjectLogic.

SharePoint Integration Requires Industry Leaders

By Melody Smith | June 14, 2011

Winter Park Construction was seeking a migration strategy for moving their project documentation to SharePoint 2010. MetaVis Migrator was selected to migrate data in bulk and to preserve existing metadata and classified content through the move.

Pre or Post-Coordinate Indexing?

By Melody Smith | June 13, 2011 |

Most people think about what they want to search for and are willing to combine their concepts at the time of search. If you think of the way people search in Google, they put in the combination of terms they are thinking of; they are doing the coordination of terms. It is up to the search software to do the intersection of the terms for them and figure out the post-coordination.