Taxonomy
The Standards of Watson
By now, IBM’s Jeopardy! champion Watson is old news. But the computer technology triumph, capable of understanding human language and broad knowledge topics, may have more to teach us.
Read MoreNot True!
The Autonomy folks must be getting worried about the progress of taxonomy applications and the precision and recall that such systems provide. Autonomy and Google live on relevance rankings as the return to the user. Relevance to me is a confidence game. It is the best guess of the system as to whether the results returned will actually match the user’s request. If you have a big enough data set returned, certainly something in there will be useful. But the sheer amount of items the user has to review (or amount of noise they have to look at) is very annoying. So they rank the returns by relevance based on a number of statistical factors so the most likely items based on co-occurrence with terms matches and near matches will appear at the top of the list – that is, they will be relevance ranked.
Read MoreTaxoBank Adds Pasta Lover’s Thesaurus
The first new Taxobank entry in quite some time is the Pasta Lover’s Thesaurus, apparently a student project but nevertheless an informative and mouth-watering example of a straightforward hierarchical and relational thesaurus.
Read MoreDataFacet for SharePoint Released
WAND has announced the release of DataFacet for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. DataFacet combines an available library of hundreds of pre-built taxonomies with a software add-on that extends the managed metadata feature in SharePoint 2010 and makes it easy for a company to deploy an enterprise taxonomy and document tagging in a SharePoint 2010 environment. PRWeb brought…
Read MoreAIP Chooses Really Strategies Product
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has chosen RSuite as their content management system. Prior to RSuite, AIP did not have a content management system and managed its vast amount of content via a combination of home-grown applications and file systems.
Read MoreSAE Digital Library Gets Redesign
SAE International has announced a complete redesign of its Digital Library, the comprehensive technical paper and standards solution used by automobile and aerospace engineers.
Read MoreLucid Imagination Joins the SharePoint Crowd
In a familiar story, we learned that Lucid Imagination released an update to their LucidWorks Enterprise product this week that includes a way of connecting the search tool directly to SharePoint repositories.
Read MoreParts Locator Goes High Tech
A new website has been launched to assist drivers, dealers, and repair shops to locate parts. Seems like an easy task, but with FinditParts.com, products from more than 800 manufacturers and OEMs are available.
Read MoreLocation Development Tackles Huge Hurdles
Fwix founder speaks about the challenges they have faced in location development and their solutions.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Announces Integration of Data Harmony® With Microsoft® SharePoint 2010
Access Innovations, a leader in the data and content management industry, has announced that its Data Harmony suite of content enrichment and thesaurus management tools can now be fully integrated with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Data Harmony fills semantic gaps in SharePoint to help users take full advantage of their metadata through auto classification, enterprise taxonomy management, entity extraction, and search enhancements. The end result is information assets that are more searchable and more accessible.
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