The Advances of Search
New developments in semantic search are popping up every day. This intelligence approach to finding what you want online quickly and easily has potentially huge implications for ecommerce.
Semantic Conference in London
Come September, the Semantic Tech & Business Conference will be held in London. This is an opportunity to be a part of a large conference series on semantic technology & business for enterprise computing professionals.
New Manager for iSOCO’s Madrid Locale
Vicenç Jiménez has been appointed iSOCO’s new Madrid manager. He brings extensive experience in IT services and will take over the coordination of the semantic technology and artificial intelligence company's strategic development and growth at its Madrid offices.
New App Gives You a Sixth Sense
A new mobile app for your iPhone tells you when people who belong to your social circle are physically near you. Can we say stalker?
Semantic Technology in Manufacturing
Inforbix has released two new products that seamlessly aggregate product data from different file types and locations. With a history in cloud-based product data access applications, these products use semantic technology that automatically infer relationships between disparate sources of data.
No Ontology? Hmpf!
Lucky Sort is building a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch meant for discovering patterns in live data streams. Information overload may soon become a thing of the past with this new product. Imagine sifting through social media, government filings, news and commentary in real time, on your iPad.
Understanding Intention
Fact-Finder is a well-known semantic search guru that just went live on a German online travel agency. This recent international adventure was the brain-child of Carsten Kraus, Fact-Finder founder.
Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 5
This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works This time we are talking about the importance of relevancy. Relevance is how well a set of returned documents answers the information need, another way of talking about accuracy. But, it’s related to the objective of the search so different user communities can get exactly the same answer from a set of information resources and one will find the set relevant and the other will not. So, there’s a really healthy tension between the user needs and the context available. That’s why a lot of relevance engines do a lot of profiling of the users so that, if I search Google for a particular question, I might get one answer and each of you will search it and get a different answer. That’s because your profile and the things that you’ve clicked on in the past will indicate to Google that your answers should be more in this sphere or more in that sphere. So, relevance is really a confidence factor or a guesstimate on how well this set of documents will answer this particular user’s query.
Social Insight
LocalResponse is now offering an analytics and action platform for marketers. This new adventure will help marketers take advantage of consumer intent by mining mentions and location-enabled check-ins on various social media sites.
Pilot Program Offered for Semantic Project
Kyield has announced a new pilot program for its patented semantic enterprise platform. This particular artificial intelligence system provides a holistic architecture that extends advanced business intelligence and predictive analytics to all information workers in the organization.