By Melody Smith|November 16th, 20122012-11-15T23:06:30-05:00
The European accounting body plans to increase efforts to improve electronic scanning of company reports. This comes after criticism from the United States. We found this interesting news on London South East in their article, “Accounting body to improve machine reading of filings.”
By Melody Smith|November 16th, 20122012-11-15T23:05:28-05:00
KMWorld Magazine’s judging panel has chosen its “KM Promise and Reality” award winners from among the many nominations they received.
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By Melody Smith|November 15th, 20122012-11-14T22:54:33-05:00
The supercomputer named Watson was a big hit last year when it became famous for beating two Jeopardy! champions. By using its IBM natural language processor, it perused its vast reams of knowledge to respond the oral questions. Now, Watson will help medical students at Cleveland Clinic analyze medical problems and develop evidence-based solutions. By using its base of medical knowledge, it will be a valuable partner to medical students. In return, students will help improve Watson's language and domain analysis capabilities. So medical students and Watson will benefit from each other's strengths and expertise.
By Melody Smith|November 14th, 20122012-11-13T22:54:32-05:00
Researchers have developed a video surveillance system that intends to use artificial intellgience to reason about human activity. This project was funded by the US Army and is keyed to flag abnormal behaviour.
By Melody Smith|November 13th, 20122012-11-12T23:05:45-05:00
A new partnership between Concept Searching and Triune Group will result in an integrated intelligent search and classification capability. Triune Group has integrated its knowledge management expertise and technology solutions with Concept Searching’s intelligent search and classification capability.
By Melody Smith|November 12th, 20122012-11-12T00:40:56-05:00
When you are building a thesaurus, you can build it from the original text or from a new intellectual area. You can build from an existing vocabulary or from an existing topic. You can do a combination of the two. What often happens is that you take your text and apply it to a taxonomy you think might be fairly parallel, and then you customize it to meet your own needs. That is very common practice and it gets you there faster.
By Melody Smith|November 12th, 20122012-11-12T00:25:11-05:00
The web service, Silk, has received funding from Silicon Valley royalty to build out its vision of connecting the world via semantic technology. This significant investment into a self-service semantic engine that can help companies and individuals understand, drill down, and work with data, documents, and content is a milestone for this corporation.
By Melody Smith|November 9th, 20122012-11-08T22:37:41-05:00
Jim Hendler has been honored with an inaugural Strata Data Innovation Award. The honoree is the head of the Department of Computer Science and senior constellation professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The award is given to individuals who have made significant innovations in the data field.
By Melody Smith|November 9th, 20122012-11-08T22:29:05-05:00
Eventster is a new application that aggregates events and then further differentiates them using semantic technologies. The result is additional information to help you identify events you want to attend, and those you don't.
By Melody Smith|November 8th, 20122012-11-07T22:23:37-05:00
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) members may be interested in a report stemming from a survey of 19,000 individuals conducted by Tracy Gardner and Simon Inger. The report came from a 6-month research project and has the backing of leading publishers within International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), Humanities and Social Science. It compares the changing reader behaviour between 2005 and 2012 and as a result looks at the impact on publisher and library web site design and function.
