The Future of Search
Search engines often fail when it comes to discerning intent. Searchers want information about things and search engines are looking for documents. But with the help of semantic technology, this is changing.
Watson Creator Receives Honorary Recognition
Watson creator, David Ferrucci, has received one of IBM’s most prestigious honors – he has become an IBM Fellow.
The Semantic Web Goes Mainstream
The recent MarkLogic User Conference was a watershed event for the publishers in attendance, many of whom are just beginning to strategize about the application of semantic technology to their content. After years of hearing “the Semantic Web is coming,” the message this time was that it’s no longer about “what” or “why,” but “how” publishers will leverage this technology. It has been 10 years since Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler, and Ora Lassila announced the creation of the Semantic Web, so many of us were very excited to hear Jim Hendler’s update on current developments. Some key themes of his presentation were already covered in this article from August, 2010 in New Scientist: Google, Twitter, and Facebook Build the Semantic Web. With his trademark slogan, “A little semantics goes a long way,” Hendler added some further context, and described how these companies and others have tapped into social and commercial drivers to promote relatively simple approaches to solving the problem of getting content tagged, and thus increasing the ability for computers to understand the meaning of text across vast amounts of Web content.
Xplana Selects Access Innovations for Semantic Enhancement
Xplana.com, a digital content and social learning education platform, has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner for the next release of its Xplana learning platform, to be launched in August 2011.
That’s What She Said?
Did you ever think a computer could tell a joke? Or even have a sense of humor? Semantic technology continues to progress as two University of Washington researchers put their coding skills to the test. They developed a computer program that can identify whether a seemingly benign sentence might turn risqué if you add on "that's what she said."
Social Media in Wall Street
Some may think social media is about personal connections and sharing of photos. Others believe it to be about the expedient delivery of to-the-minute […]
Social Media Customer Service Application
Cisco Systems is reporting strong growth in its social media call center solutions just a few months after the SocialMiner launch. The social media monitoring and analytics solution is now selling as a standalone social media data mining tool upon customer demand.
Semantic Technology Monitoring Your Rep
Online reputation management is a constant topic in today’s social media world. How you use your resources and time searching social media platforms will directly affect the results you get. One author takes the time to review various tools available to monitor your organization’s online reputation.
CliniWorks Receives Best Practices Award
CliniWorks Inc. has received the prestigious Judge’s Choice Award in Bio-IT World’s 2011 Best Practices Award competition.
This news was found in the article, “CliniWorks […]
Answering the World’s Questions
Semantic technology is being used to build a large-scale platform to answer questions, interactively.