IE as in Information Extraction, not the other one, is defined in the book Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems, John Davies, Rudi Studer, and Paul Warren define this type of IE as “a technology based on analyzing natural language in order to extract snippets of information.”
10gen is dedicated an entire day event to the high-performance “NoSQL” document-oriented database. If 10gen sounds familiar, they are the company behind the open source MongoDB project. This is the tenth conference 10gen has organized on MongoDB, and will be the largest MongoDB event of the year.
A group of leading crowdsourcing companies has joined forces to create a trade organization the Crowdsortium, to serve as a resource to crowdsourcing funders, practitioners, customers, researchers and eventually the crowd themselves. This goal is accomplished through best practices, education, data collection, advocacy and public dialogue.
Computer’s biggest challenge is unraveling semantics, understanding the meaning of language. Beyond the actual definition, context impacts everything. A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has been working since the beginning of the year on fine-tuning a computer system that is trying to master semantics by learning more like a human.
RAMP has been chosen for Pennwell’s specialized industry news and information websites. They will automate their publishing workflows with taxonomy development and applications to make search and publishing contextually relevant to users’ online behavior on these websites.
Hewlett-Packard Co. is making headlines with the appointment of new CEO and chairman, Léo Apotheker, but they are also adding staff in other areas. Former cloud evangelist Joe Weinman has joined the cloud development team at the technical superpower.
Worthpoint, a provider of valuation for art, antiques and collectibles, has been totally revamped and re-launched. Now reaching over 10,000 subscribers and offering new features, CEO Will Seippel said Worthpoint “is just getting started.”