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.

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Semantic 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.

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CIA 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.

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Indexing 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.

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Natural 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.

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Apache 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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