Scrabble Attempts to Go Hip
It is a sad, sad day for word lovers’ around the world. Scrabble has announced it is adding slang words to their dictionary. I think I’d like to challenge that.
The Semantic Web Goes Mainstream
The recent MarkLogic User Conference was a watershed event for the publishers in attendance, many of whom are just beginning to strategize about the application of semantic technology to their content. After years of hearing “the Semantic Web is coming,” the message this time was that it’s no longer about “what” or “why,” but “how” publishers will leverage this technology. It has been 10 years since Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler, and Ora Lassila announced the creation of the Semantic Web, so many of us were very excited to hear Jim Hendler’s update on current developments. Some key themes of his presentation were already covered in this article from August, 2010 in New Scientist: Google, Twitter, and Facebook Build the Semantic Web. With his trademark slogan, “A little semantics goes a long way,” Hendler added some further context, and described how these companies and others have tapped into social and commercial drivers to promote relatively simple approaches to solving the problem of getting content tagged, and thus increasing the ability for computers to understand the meaning of text across vast amounts of Web content.
Xplana Selects Access Innovations for Semantic Enhancement
Xplana.com, a digital content and social learning education platform, has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner for the next release of its Xplana learning platform, to be launched in August 2011.
The Accidental Taxonomist Now Available on Kindle
We have talked about the evolution of the e-book, e-readers and digital content. We have often referred to Heather Hedden’s contribution to the world of taxonomy and specifically her book, The Accidental Taxonimist. Now we can talk about both in the same article.
IEEE Seeking Findability
We reported on IEEE’s collaboration with Access Innovations awhile back, but couldn’t help pointing out an interview they did explaining their project that actually began in 2006.
That’s What She Said?
Did you ever think a computer could tell a joke? Or even have a sense of humor? Semantic technology continues to progress as two University of Washington researchers put their coding skills to the test. They developed a computer program that can identify whether a seemingly benign sentence might turn risqué if you add on "that's what she said."