New AI Assistant

Artificial intelligence continues to evolve and affect many parts of our lives. Recently Facebook announced M, an artificial-intelligence powered assistant programmed to do your bidding. This interesting information was found on CNN Money in their article, “Facebook made its own Siri: Meet M.” This new feature is part of Facebook’s stand-alone Messenger app and is only available…

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Being Responsive

Amazon has changed its customer reviews system in the United States. A new machine-learning platform has been developed in-house to surface newer and more helpful reviews. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “Amazon Is Improving Its Review System With Machine Learning.” This new system apparently can learn to predict which reviews are likely…

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New Languages Bring New Expertise

A new data science platform for unstructured data is specifically designed to help businesses uncover insight to drive performance and growth. The Sensai platform is designed to incorporate its new language, dubbed Content Description Language (CDL), atop an in-memory platform. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “A New Take in a Data Science Platform…

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Let’s Talk Semantics

The rapid growth of digital information has been discussed here many times. It has spawned many interesting and creative approaches to information analyzing, indexing, retrieval, and findability. Access Innovations has been acutely aware of the needs for quite some time and works to provide comprehensive solutions for its clients. This interesting topic came from Research Information in their…

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The Chicken or the Egg?

We often think of a computer as the laborious mechanism under or on our desk that provides access to our information sources and the sometimes lifelike mechanism we can blame for all things gone awry. There are always those who believe that computers will take over for humans in the far (and not so far)…

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Semantic Technology Can Be the Best Choice

Ontology Systems (“Ontology”) is working with the United Kingdom Government Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to apply their graph-data and semantic modeling platform, Ontology 4, as they pursue a solution that enables their team to analyze their data at a single point, regardless of its format or source. PR Newswire brought this information to…

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Search What?

Semantic search isn’t new. We have all experienced it, whether we realized it at the time or not. Google continues to put more priority on it, and is indicating that it will influence rankings now and even more so in the future. This interesting topic came from eConsultancy in their article, “Semantic search: the future of search…

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