This year's Semantic Technology and Business Conference feature leaders and practitioners to explore the many challenges businesses face and how semantic technology can be a solution. This year's line-up of speakers includes Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Co-Director, Open Data Institute. The two day conference is packed with case studies and real-world perspectives.
Even though the definition of the semantic web may still up for debate, many of us use it or its close cousin on a daily basis. They are not advertised as semantic, but services such as Apple’s Siri and Google’s new Knowledge Graph all use semantics to drive their technology.
Semantic networks provide structure to a set of concepts, as a network or a web. They are often defined as graph representations of the relationships among a set of concepts. In a larger sense, in the world of computer science, they are a set of concepts with relationships that are defined in such a way that computers, or the World Wide Web, can work with those relationships.
We have all read the continued news stream regarding semantic technology and its venture into the world of search. Google’s recent announcement regarding KnowledgeGraph is a great example. This move away from straightforward keyword search to a semantic approach seems to seek a better understanding of the users’ queries meaning.
Birst Inc. has released Birst Visualization Edition, a quick deploy version of its enterprise product. In this new edition, a semantic layer is featured and eliminates the need to write SQL queries or perform data extractions. Information Management brought this news to our attention in their article, "Birst Releases Visualization Edition." A semantic layer is in the appliance links tables and generates queries “under the covers” for non-SQL experts.
Poderopedia is a project that aims to promote greater transparency in Chile by mapping and visualizing the relationships among the country's elite. To achieve this, semantic technologies are being utilized to store and query data. These technologies represent a diverse set of relations between entities (people, companies, organizations) in a flexible way. By identifying the power and influence of people, key Chilean political, civic and business leaders can be identified. OWL (Web Ontology Language) is being used to define the vocabulary because it provides the semantic richness needed.
Social listening is not eavesdropping like it would seem. The technology has been around for awhile and the buy-in is reaching significant points. So what is social listening? Social listening is the ability to capture consumer comments about products, brands, campaigns, corporations, etc. This knowledge of trends and opinions is valuable, very valuable.
Upstream Commerce’s latest tool in its Retail Intelligence Suite is Assortment Intelligence, which allows retailers to track assortment changes at competitors' websites in real-time, and adjust their own product-mix accordingly.
Last month, Russia held a conference where they brought together some of the foremost Russian and international leaders on artificial intelligence and natural language processing. This first time ever and well attended event featured over 20 presentations.
Expert System has released the latest version of their Cogito semantic technology apparently featuring better support management of Big Data.