Introducing Exo Sanitations’ Really Really Advanced Search

Sometimes Advanced Search just isn’t enough. On this date last year, you may recall, Google unveiled a Really Advanced Search, with more than a dozen different option fields that included searching rhyming slang, embarrassing grammatical faux pas, font, content that is true, and “this exact word or phrase, whose sum of unicode points is a mersenne prime.”

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Exo Sanitations Announces Universal Thesaurus

Exo Sanitations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, is pleased to announce the release of its new Universal Thesaurus. Designed by world-class taxonomists at Exo Sanitations, the Universal Thesaurus is designed to be compact, broad, and inclusive. While the taxonomy is relatively small in size, the terms in this newly deployed controlled vocabulary are general enough to suit all types of documents, datasets, and industries.

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Ontologies in Italy

Need a reason to go to Italy? Okay, need a good reason? The Second International Workshop on Ontologies meet Advanced Information Systems (OAIS) will be held September 1-4, 2013 in Genoa, Italy.

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Commonality Fosters Consistency

A business glossary is a software application used to communicate and govern the organization’s business concepts and terminology, along with the associated definitions and relationships between those terms. A core objective of a business glossary is to minimize the confusion of business terminology and communications.

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What Men and Women Want Most

Siri is fun to play with – ask her what the meaning of life is sometime – but I am still not sure she offers real, usable information that a quick internet search wouldn’t give me, and I wouldn’t have to repeat three times. However, people like Tim Berners-Lee dream of a time when you could ask inocuious questions like where to take your spouse for dinner and receive a response based on natural language processing and what I call insight. Insight into the food preferences of both you and your spouse, restaurants nearby and their table availability. The latter two are not as difficult, but insight would be an achievement that most men would like to possess on their own.

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Content Enrichment Integration

TEMIS has completed a conclusive series of tests of its flagship Luxid® Content Enrichment Platform on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Azure. This is a signficant step towards customer application deployments on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.

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ICD-10 Project Progresses

H.I.M. ON CALL has made available their dual coding services for hospitals migrating to ICD-10 coding classification system. Dual Coding is part of the process to end-to-end testing for ICD-10.

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Silver Linings

Organizations that help manage and analyze medical content have a unique opportunity during this time of ICD-10 transition. Healthcare entities are recognizing the need for sharing clinical data. This trend has been accelerated by the transition. This interesting information was found on Reuters in their article, “Wolters Kluwer Health to Acquire Health Language, Inc., a Leader in the Medical Terminology Management Market.”

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Semantic Web and Natural Language

Natural language user interfaces are becoming more and more popular. Creations like Siri promise to improve every facet of our lives from emergency situations to shopping. The semantic web has birthed this phenomonaly successful technology. Through the use of standardized tags and formats, the semantic web builds a framework where content on the web has machine-understandable meaning. This takes it many steps past simply being searchable by keyword.

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