Awards for Semantic Technology

Google has awarded over $1.2 million to support research in several areas of several natural language understanding that relate to Google’s concept of the Knowledge Graph. This substantial investment in machine learning is motivated by their need to further search technology.

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Professor Recognized for Semantic Contribution

Professor Ronen Feldman, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of text mining as well as co-founder and chief scientist at Digital Trowel, has been selected as one of five finalists to compete for the prestigious 2013 AQR Insight Award.

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Recognition for Semantic Technology

FeedBooster has been awarded a “Best Of 2013″ solution in Knowledge Management by Initiative Mittelstand. FeedBooster’s web-based feed reader is powered by Q-Sensei’s search and indexing technology.

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AI, Semantics, and Other Technology

Artificial intelligence continues to tease even the most scientific professionals. The idea of a man-made technology that can rival human intelligence in processing and understanding is the brass ring for many. So it was no surprise when IBM’s Watson fascinated technologists during its performance on Jeopardy in 2011. Interestingly, many searches on Google are done in the form of questions. If the search engine had a better understanding of the natural language, the ability to answer questions would be enhanced. This interesting topic was discussed on the Seeking Alpha blog in their post, “The Search Engine Of The Future.”

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Looking Forward with Ontologies

Detecting defects in ontologies has always been important, but with the increased use of ontologies and ontology mappings in semantically-enabled applications, the importance has increased exponentially.

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Shopping Semantics

A new shopping search engine, TheFind, has released a new iPad app designed to give users an even more effective experience of finding what they want using the iPad.

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Keeping Up With the Trends

The latest technology terminology shows up in trends. Big data, information architecture, analytics, and of course semantic anything. How does the average person, let alone professional, stay on top of the latest vernacular?

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Financial Standards in Semantics

As the 2013 Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) draws nearer, additional industry leaders join the innovative regulators and others to discuss the issues facing financial services organizations and the innovative new solutions.

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The Reach of the Semantic Search

Remember last year when Google released the Knowledge Graph and everyone was buzzing about what that meant for the future of semantic technology? Well, now is the future; how did it affect you? This interesting topic was found on Search Engine Journal in their article, “Semantic Web: Are You Taking Advantage of Semantic Search?”

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