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Read MoreTricom’s Data Management and Capturing Services Make Profit
June 7, 2010 – India- based company, Tricom recently reported a rise in revenue over the past year. Business Standard reported on this firm’s encouraging financial reports in their article, “Tricom India Registers 5.80% Rise in Revenue” This global business specializes in six major areas in data management and data capturing services which include indexing,…
Read MoreCisco Part of Medical Data Exchange Program
June 7, 2010 – Cisco network devices may be edging toward firmware that tags content. Cisco may have a new endeavor seeks to keep privacy top priority while working to enhance the exchange of user-friendly personal health records. MarketWatch recently reported on this new patient indexing project in their article, “Cisco and Electronic Health Network…
Read MoreData Alignment: Good Data Means Better Business
June 7, 2010 – In a client meeting last week, we heard, “I needed to retrieve the Wilson proposal but I had to wade through two screens of results before I could locate the document I wanted.” We took a quick look and saw that the document creator had assigned uncontrolled free text index terms.…
Read MoreIndexing: Chopping Logic
June 4, 2010 – The Nieman Journalism Lab’s “Aggregators, Curators, and Indexers: There’s a Difference and It Matters” makes a great deal of sense. You will want to read the original write-up by C. W.Anderson. For us, the most interesting comment was: Anytime you hear someone talk about Google News, The Huffington Post, Gawker, blogging,…
Read MoreSearch Capabilities Expanding to Arabic Language
June 4, 2010 – The recently unveiled SAMAR Project team consists of the French government and international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Their goal is to find a high-quality semantic search strategy for AFP’s Arabic-language news, audio, and video multimedia content. The Arabic language presents unique challenges for content producers. The difficult linguistic patterns prohibit…
Read MoreITC Infotech Escalates its Metatagging Solution
June 4, 2010 – Several years ago we heard about ITC Infotech, the India-based services company, and its Metatag+ solution. In 2009, the Gilbane Group published “ITC Infotech Introduces New Solution for the Media and Entertainment Industry.” The product dropped off our radar. Yesterday we fielded an inquiry about Metatag+. Our recollection is that the…
Read MoreMicrosoft Research Approach to Hierarchical Taxonomy Building
June 3, 2010 – Earlier this year we learned about a novel method for building taxonomies. We located on Microsoft Research’s Web site the complete paper, “Building Taxonomy of Web Search Intents for Name Entity Queries.” Like most technical papers, there is a hefty dose of math, but in this paper the authors have provided…
Read MoreBuilding a Keyword List
June 3, 2010 – One of the methods we use to build a keyword list requires good, old-fashioned research. In the days of 4×6 notecards, library time was an essential first step. We recently learned about a shortcut that is rumored to be popular among some of the search engine optimization specialists. We wanted to…
Read MoreElectronic Newsletters Add Classification System
June 3, 2010 – SmartBrief http://www.smartbrief.com, a publisher of electronic newsletters for various industries, has added the Lexalytics classification system to their repertoire according to “SmartBrief Signs Agreement to Integrate Lexalytics Classification Solution” . The system allows “flexibility in classifying content from various sources” and provides a toolkit that can help “create, edit, and revise…
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