Every Day Semantic Technology

Artificial intelligence (AI) is headline news almost every day. New advancements are made more personal with the advantages of semantic understanding and natural language technology. IT ProPortal brought this information to our attention in their article, “How semantic technology is making sense of our big data.” One of the latest is AlphaGo – a computer program developed by…

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Making the Best of a Relationship

Business intelligence and enterprise search are friends; maybe besties. Enterprise business intelligence is useless without the ability to index and search it. Computer Weekly brought this news to our attention in their article, “Beyond keywords: bringing initiative to enterprise search.” While we’ve moved past the team of librarians scouring through a basement full of card catalogs to…

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Who is Watching?

Artificial intelligence permeates all parts of our lives. Essentially anyone with an internet connection is benefiting from or contributing to artificial intelligence, whether they know it or not. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Improving Customer Experience with Artificial Intelligence.” As you stream the latest movie or browse your favorite online…

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Semantic Key to Partnership

Impelsys and Ontotext are releasing an integrated technology offering that will allow publishers and content providers to benefit from semantically enriched metadata. Database Trends and Applications brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Impelsys and Ontotext Partner to Provide Smart Content.” The two vendors each bring different things to the table. Impelsys offers its digital content…

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Leading Us to the Future

Machine learning technology is making leaps and strides for companies in delivering tailored online experiences. By seeking to discover meaningful patterns within large amounts of data, machine learning continues to work with cloud computing and big data analytics to change how enterprises manage digital content to produce innovative online experiences. An important shift in outcomes and intentions…

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Health Analytics Gain New Partner

IBM Watson Health has completed the acquisition of Truven Health Analytics. As the provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights, Truven brings more than 8,500 clients to the Watson Health portfolio. In a recent announcement, “IBM Watson Health Closes Acquisition of Truven Health Analytics.” IBM and Truven data scientists will begin the process of using Watson Health’s…

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Semantic Differences

A Bangor University expert believes the constant battle for prominence between words is a good example of the brain’s natural algorithms and architectures. This very interesting information came to us from BBC News in their article, “How does your brain pick one word from 50,000 in 0.6 seconds?“ Dr Gary Oppenheim, of the university’s Language Production…

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Same and Different

We talk a lot about semantic technology and artificial intelligence, and even cognitive computing. Often those words are used interchangeably, but should they be? What is artificial intelligence, exactly? This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence.” Artificial intelligence can be traced back to the classical philosophers…

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Semantic Fingerprinting Changes Finance

Tagging documents with metadata to identify the author name, institution, subject matter, or any relevant piece of information at all brings all of those card catalogs into a single databank, accessible all at once. We like to call it Semantic Fingerprinting because, as it turns out, tagging a person’s electronic record actually does reveal the…

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Semantic Technology Outperforming Humans

Semantic technology still feels foreign, futuristic and unknown for many. Understanding within context for humans is tough enough, but to expect technology to follow suit is overwhelming for some. DATAVERSITY brought us this interesting information in their article, “Machine Learning Is Learning How to Read Lips.” A technology model for lip reading developed at the University of…

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