Personal Semantic Web

A new online application has moved from private to public beta and it allows you to build and view a website with massive amounts of data arranged in an easily understandable manner. Silk is an online application that tries to tap into the “semantic” Web by collecting and displaying information from the Internet, from your own documents, and from other sources. The idea is to let people select “the data they want from the mass of information available, and to view and arrange it in ways that make sense to them.”

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Your New Best Friend

Since Siri has fast become a household word in the four months “she” has been around, this personal assistant is permeating sitcoms, stand-up routines and commercials. Apple’s speech-recognition is the kind of technology that both excites and incites fans and foes.

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Optimizing Semantic Search

If you haven’t applied for a job in the past few years, things have changed – significantly. Almost everyone requires that you apply online, which is fine by me. I am all about online. However, I recently learned that this reliance on computers extends to scan resumes for key words using “proprietary algorithms”, “advanced semantic search”, “computational linguistics”, and “statistical inference.”

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Integrating Data With Semantics

Semantic data integration and knowledge management software, Sentient Knowledge Explorer 4.0, address data for life sciences and healthcare. A simplified workflow makes it possible for users to integrate data more efficiently by making it easier to complete common integration tasks and interrogate multi-faceted data.

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Natural Language Processing Only Goes So Far

The sirens call of natural language processing has been issued again. In this study, the researchers compared the use for free text searches to administrative codes to see which would give better indication of safety based on 20 indicators. The authors rightly suggest that instead of relying only on the notoriously poor check boxes used with discharge orders that the hand written notes form the discharge nurse or physician might be much more instructive.

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Semantic Search Technology Used by New Start-up

Big data startup, PureDiscovery, is offering an answer to outdated enterprise search technology. Brainspace can learn just about everything about how pieces of content are related to one another. That means users will become less dependent on searching for information because the platform will feed them what they want to know as they interact with other content.

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Enhanced Semantic Technology

Sprylogics International has announced the leveraging and enhancement on their existing patent pending technology base to build mobile search solutions that interpret what people are saying online and on their mobile phones.

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