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Indexing People with People
Search indexing company PeekYou has taken a look at the fifty biggest names in gaming and assigned each a
PeekScore. They wanted to recognize the developers and talent involved in this industry.
New Patent for Ontology
IBM has received a federal patent for “ontology-based network search engine.” Four co-inventors were named.
Read MoreKeeping 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.
Read MoreSemantic Search Powers Robot
The clip of the robot serving food seemed to appear on every site I visited today. I guess our fascination of life as The Jetson’s has not diminished with our youth. Robotic technology continues to advance and the PR2 robot is a good example. Not only is it smart enough to be able to fetch food from the fridge, but with the little help of a technology known as semantic search, it is even clever enough to bring you a sandwich, despite not knowing where or exactly what it is.
Read MoreCIA is Investing in Semantic Search
The CIA is embracing semantic technology by investing an undisclosed, but apparently healthy, amount in semantic search technology and a technology that can turn a PC into a wireless network. In-Q-Tel is the CIA’s investment group and they are backing NetBase, developer of semantic search technology, and Connectify, developer of VPN software.
Read MoreIndexing Your Cookbooks
Though it may seem trivial in comparison to indexing millions of books in libraries, hundreds of thousands documents for publishers, and the endless financial data being indexed continuously, a new technology is indexing personal cookbook libraries for ease in searching for a specific recipe, ingredient or theme.
Read MoreNational Agriculture Library Selects TEMIS for Auto-Indexing
TEMIS was awarded the contract by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) to automatically index hundreds of thousands of documents annually. NAL has acquired via TEMIS an automated indexing software that expands their indexing potential.
Read MoreProject Underway to Create Metadata Framework For Tagging Resources
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project to create a common vocabulary for describing learning resources on the Internet. The technical working group has been formed and includes representatives from experts in the fields of education, publishing, and metadata. Their goal is to create a metadata framework for tagging resources that is can be easily implemented, but rich enough to assign valuable attributes to educational content to make searching and filtering easier.
Read MoreNatural Language Processing Only Goes So Far
The sirens call of natural language processing has been issued again. In this study, the researchers compared the use for free text searches to administrative codes to see which would give better indication of safety based on 20 indicators. The authors rightly suggest that instead of relying only on the notoriously poor check boxes used with discharge orders that the hand written notes form the discharge nurse or physician might be much more instructive.
Read MoreApache Lucene 3.4.0 Released
No one will argue that search is a very important part of any enterprise content management system. Findability is key. What is the point of having quality content if no one can find it?
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