By Melody Smith|June 28th, 20132013-06-27T19:05:05-04:00
Medical imagery can be as helpful as medical information. Searching for them may be a little different though. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH are building a large-scale medical image retrieval system for consumers using a medical ontology.
By Melody Smith|June 28th, 20132013-06-27T18:50:34-04:00
Predixion Software released Predixion Enterprise Insight 3.0, which lets users create, reuse, share, and deploy predictive applications. The latest version introduces a new machine-learning semantic model that makes it possible for non-technical users take advantage of predictive analytics on their data.
By Melody Smith|June 27th, 20132013-06-26T21:49:58-04:00
FeedBooster has been awarded a “Best Of 2013″ solution in Knowledge Management by Initiative Mittelstand. FeedBooster’s web-based feed reader is powered by Q-Sensei’s search and indexing technology.
By Melody Smith|June 27th, 20132013-06-26T21:44:54-04:00
Artificial intelligence continues to tease even the most scientific professionals. The idea of a man-made technology that can rival human intelligence in processing and understanding is the brass ring for many. So it was no surprise when IBM’s Watson fascinated technologists during its performance on Jeopardy in 2011. Interestingly, many searches on Google are done in the form of questions. If the search engine had a better understanding of the natural language, the ability to answer questions would be enhanced. This interesting topic was discussed on the Seeking Alpha blog in their post, “The Search Engine Of The Future.”
By Melody Smith|June 27th, 20132013-06-26T21:40:40-04:00
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM) has announced that the DSM-5 diagnostic manual project will not be the focus of their work. With only weeks before the launch, the NIMH said, it will be “re-orienting its research away from DSM categories”. Those familiar with this project find this move somewhat surprising.
By admin|June 26th, 20132013-07-22T20:34:49-04:00
Amy Taylor, JD, MLIS, of American University, has posted the video and slides of her presentation, Developing an Ontology of Legal Research. She describes […]
By Melody Smith|June 26th, 20132013-06-26T17:07:02-04:00
Metadata has become a hosuehold word. Whatever news source you use has surely blasted you with all the conspiracy theories and paranoia driven news to make this not only a familiar word, but a terrifying one. But metadata is not new nor is it malevolent or malicious.
By Melody Smith|June 26th, 20132013-06-25T23:39:32-04:00
Family-Search is a worldwide archive project provided free by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Recently they celebrated a milestone of mammoth proportions when they reached the one billion mark of historical recoards having been transferred from hand-written archives to online documents, much of this achieved by volunteers.
By Melody Smith|June 25th, 20132013-06-24T23:04:39-04:00
Detecting defects in ontologies has always been important, but with the increased use of ontologies and ontology mappings in semantically-enabled applications, the importance has increased exponentially.
By Melody Smith|June 25th, 20132013-06-24T23:07:28-04:00
Version 1.0 of TokuMX, a version of MongoDB that has its storage layer replaced with Tokutek's storage engine, has been released.
