Searching History
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced a new data source available for search in their release, “New USPTO Tool Allows Exploration of 40 Years of Patent Data.” The USPTO launched PatentsView, a new patent data visualization platform. The PatentsView beta search tool allows users to explore technological, regional, and individual-level patent trends…
Read MoreSemantic Search In Today’s Technology
We speak often about semantic technology. Machine learning or semantic technology is the basis for most commercial artificial-intelligence systems, and it is about to do things a little differently. But what is semantic search? Search Engine Watch brought this news to us in their article, “What is semantic search and why does it matter?” Semantic search…
Read MoreMore Like Watson Every Day
Artificial intelligence is in every part of our lives in some form or fashion. Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, believes we’re closer than ever before to true artificial intelligence. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Eric Schmidt Says Artificial Intelligence Making “Real Progress”.” The growth of artificial intelligence has been accelerated by the real-world problems…
Read MoreTaxonomies and Databases
EBSCO Information Services and the H.W. Wilson Foundation are taking their partnership to a new level. In 2014, the two organizations created American Doctoral Dissertations. Now the H.W. Wilson Foundation has agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to…
Read MoreVisualizing the Data
Hitachi has acquired Pentaho, a specialist in the integration, visualization, and analysis of data. Mr. Web brought this news to us in their article, “Hitachi Buys Data Visualization and Analytics Firm.” The plan is for Pentaho to retain its existing brand and continue to be led by current management, who will now report to Hitachi’s Senior Vice President of Social…
Read MoreMetadata Learning Opportunity
Metadata has many roles. One is providing a path for a solid data management system. While much of the discussion around metadata focuses on understanding metadata itself along with its associated technologies, this perspective often represents a typical tool-and-technology focus, which has not achieved significant results to date. A more relevant question when considering pockets…
Read MoreUsing Semantic Technology with Taxonomies
TEMIS recently announced the launch of Luxid® 7.1, a new milestone release of its flagship semantic content enrichment platform. This interesting information came from Ulitzer in their article, “TEMIS Launches Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform 7.1.” Luxid 7.1 now extends its ontology management features and includes a complete design workflow for Content Recommendation Engines. While Content Recommendation Engines have become…
Read MoreUsing N-grams to discover taxonomy terms
Words that occur together frequently are likely to encode important concepts. Therefore, simply sorting a list of phrases according to the frequency of occurrence in text is an automatic way of capturing important concepts associated with that subject. Word order is important since meaning tends to be associated with order. Thus, word order must be…
Read MoreThe Origins of Reformed Faith
The book A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross takes a look at the shaping of reformed faith as it is know today. Martin Luther obviously gets some attention, but so does Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and ultimately Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This different but interesting information came from First Things in their blog post, “Philosophical Luther.” It is interesting and…
Read MoreChanges in the Clouds
The three largest users of cloud computing report huge growth in the demand for their services. Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft will be quick to tell you how they are different from one another, but at the end of the day they are representing a huge percent of growth and revenues in the technological…
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