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Technology and Social Media

By |November 21st, 2012|News, Technology|Comments Off on Technology and Social Media

The Internet has changed the way we communicate, connect, and do business. The new technologies stemming from the Internet continue to appear every day. One industry that has embraced that technology growth is the hospitality industry. With hotel e-commerce, the industry has forever changed.

Search Technology Can Reduce Cost

By |November 20th, 2012|News, search|Comments Off on Search Technology Can Reduce Cost

Splunk machine data search engine has released a new version that comes with a distributed indexing technology. This new release can save money for storage. Version 5 can also generate reports faster than its predecessor and that too can help the bottom line.

The Fear of Change

By |November 20th, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on The Fear of Change

Many physicians are still not on board with the impending ICD-10 coding classification transition. There is fear around the moving deadline and worry about the added strain on their resources.

Free Semantic Search Workshop

By |November 19th, 2012|News, search, semantic|1 Comment

If you are interested in learning more about semantic search and how it can improve your work, here is an opportunity for a free workshop to do just that. This workshop is brought to you in a joint effort by NKOS (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems) and CENDI, an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies.

Setting Records

By |November 19th, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on Setting Records

Sysomos is celebrating the indexing of 100,000,000,000 social posts. This milestone of collecting social media data in real time from various sources such as blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and news sources is equivalent of 14 times the population of the Earth. Now we know why they say perspective is everything.

Marjorie Hlava Presents Keynote Speech at 23rd Annual SIG/CR Workshop

By |November 16th, 2012|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Marjorie Hlava Presents Keynote Speech at 23rd Annual SIG/CR Workshop

On October 26, 2012, Access Innovations, Inc. president Marjorie M.K. Hlava presented an afternoon keynote speech at the 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, part of the American Society for Information Science and Technology's 75th annual meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Financial Taxonomy Consistency

By |November 16th, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Financial Taxonomy Consistency

The European accounting body plans to increase efforts to improve electronic scanning of company reports. This comes after criticism from the United States. We found this interesting news on London South East in their article, “Accounting body to improve machine reading of filings.”

Awards Given for Technology Contribution

By |November 16th, 2012|News, Technology|Comments Off on Awards Given for Technology Contribution

KMWorld Magazine’s judging panel has chosen its “KM Promise and Reality” award winners from among the many nominations they received.

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Watson is Going to School

By |November 15th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Watson is Going to School

The supercomputer named Watson was a big hit last year when it became famous for beating two Jeopardy! champions. By using its IBM natural language processor, it perused its vast reams of knowledge to respond the oral questions. Now, Watson will help medical students at Cleveland Clinic analyze medical problems and develop evidence-based solutions. By using its base of medical knowledge, it will be a valuable partner to medical students. In return, students will help improve Watson's language and domain analysis capabilities. So medical students and Watson will benefit from each other's strengths and expertise.

Predictive Video Analysis with Semantic Technology

By |November 14th, 2012|News, semantic|Comments Off on Predictive Video Analysis with Semantic Technology

Researchers have developed a video surveillance system that intends to use artificial intellgience to reason about human activity. This project was funded by the US Army and is keyed to flag abnormal behaviour.