The New Normal

The search engines of today are so powerful and so common that we assume that searches will provide our desired results in a matter of seconds. If we are forced to wait a few more seconds than normal, it feels archaic and clunky. Speed in search is important. Businesses acknowledge the importance of search to…

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Proper Semantics

Someone (maybe your soul mate, best friend, or sister) who knows you well enough to finish your sentences for you has a semantic understanding of you. Even the most average of people understand context and know what you’re trying to say. However, once in a while, you meet someone with no talent for filling in those…

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Smoke and Mirrors

John Weathington, President and CEO of Excellent Management Systems, looks fondly at the mystique of artificial intelligence. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence.” He elaborated that leaders often take an egocentric view of the world, relying myopically on their internal capabilities for advanced analytics. However, he believes that…

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Forward Thinking Technology

Tom Simonite recently shared this in the MIT Technology Review: “Many of the devices around us may soon acquire powerful new abilities to understand images and video, thanks to hardware designed for the machine-learning technique called deep learning. Companies like Google have made breakthroughs in image and face recognition through deep learning, using giant data…

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Semantic Service

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a design approach based on distinct pieces of software providing application functionality as services to other applications via a protocol. It operates independently of any vendor, product, or technology. This interesting topic came from DATAVERSITY in their blog post, “Semantic SOA makes Sense!” Service catalogs strive to make management easier, but how do application…

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Semantic Advancements

Expert System is known for their semantic technology advancements. Now, with a new partnership with MongoDB to integrate its Cogito semantic technology with MongoDB powered big data environments, users can quickly and accurately access unstructured data.

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Survey for Content Analytics

The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) is interested in what your plans are and what experiences in unstructured content issues you are finding? Weigh in on their newest survey, “Content Analytics: automating processes and extracting knowledge” here.

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Grammar Violations

We all know them. They are the grammar police. The person in your circle of friends or maybe on your Facebook feed that can’t ignore mix-ups like irregardless and regardless or vica versa and vice versa. For that matter, maybe you are that friend. The misuse of words whether it be accidental or a true misunderstanding of the meaning makes the hairs on your neck stand alert and ready to proclaim a guilty sentence and subsequent punishment on any offender.

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Digital Technologies for Research

With the Data Harmony User’s Group in full swing, today started the case studies. Personally, I find these the most interesting because it is a real life application of all the technology, including the hurdles and bumps along the way.

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