AI in HR

The job market is as competitive as it has ever been. This is exacerbated by long-term low unemployment and a service economy that places a premium on talent and performance. Finding candidates who aren’t simply qualified for open positions but are motivated, can be very challenging. Benefit News brought this interesting information to our attention in…

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Intelligent Language

Natural language processing (NLP) is the ability of a computer program to understand human language as it is spoken. As a component of artificial intelligence (AI), it also falls into the linguistics field. A cousin to NLP is neural machine translation (MT) and the differences between the two can get a little fuzzy. This information came to our…

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All in on AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming common in every type of organization and business. Retail is certainly taking advantage of the benefits it offers. This interesting information came to us from Inc. in their article, “Selling Online? These A.I. Tools Can Help You Do It Better.” Big e-commerce stores are deploying the machine learning and statistics techniques…

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Natural Language Processing Being Used to Diagnose

Researchers confirm that a computer-based natural language processing (NLP) analyses of speech transcripts can predict young people at risk for developing later psychosis. This interesting information came to us from Healio in their article, “Computer-based analysis of language may predict psychosis onset.” NLP is a branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers understand, interpret and manipulate human language.…

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Art, Social Protest and Archives

When you think of art and archives, protest signs don’t often come to mind. Fortunately, many of the signs from Boston’s first Women’s March in 2017 have been saved and now available to the public not in poster form but as a searchable digital archive. The Northeastern professors serve as the primary reason. This interesting information came…

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Is Digital a Fad?

There is such a thing as a technology life-cycle (TLC). It refers to time and cost of developing a product through the expense of research and development phase, and the financial return during its life. There is also the product life-cycle (PLC) that deals with the life of a product in the marketplace with respect to timing…

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Oxford University Press Adds More Academic Journals to Their Roster

Oxford University Press recently announced that it will publish the International Communication Association (ICA) journals, beginning January 2018. Knowledge Speak brought this information to us in their article, “Oxford University Press to publish the International Communication Association journals.” ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human…

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