November 2012

Semantic Technology Used in the Campaigns

By |November 8th, 2012

With the election now over, the yard signs and television advertisements can disappear and none too soon. However, Expert System did a linguistic and semantic analysis of the third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and challenger, former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney and have released the highlights. It is interesting to see semantic technology used in such a way.

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Proper Information Architecture

By |November 7th, 2012

There is a lot of discussion about proper information architecture going on out there. Experts believe an effective information architecture best reflects the most common vernacular of the organization — the most used or common words for describing things. This is key to a successful site as it provides a blueprint or map for navigating.

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A Different Type of Search Engine

By |November 6th, 2012

What is a vertical search engine? It is technically defined as a search engine that focuses on a specific segment of content or topic. What is the advantage of this type of search engine? One of the most significant advantages is the ability to easily determine the intent of the user.

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Making Thesaurus Terms Work for Indexing

By |November 5th, 2012

We’ve already discussed indexing. We are going to assign those terms to the documents based on the concepts. A thesaurus is also known as an indexing language. We’re controlling the synonyms – different terms for the same concept. They are polythemes or homonyms, depending on if you are European or stateside. They are the same words with different meanings, like lead.

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Those Were The Days

By |November 2nd, 2012

Search engine optimization used to be fairly straightforward. You include the right keywords to your website and when someone conducted a search containing those same words, you showed up in the results. Not so much anymore.

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Accessing the Clouds

By |November 2nd, 2012

Even though the term “cloud” is thrown about frequently these days, to many, it is still not clear exactly what the cloud offers, where it, is and how to access it.

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Webinars To Help Prepare for Transition

By |November 1st, 2012

The deadline for compliance with the ICD-10 coding classification may not be until October 2014, but healthcare providers are working hard on preparing for the change. Because of this, Dolbey is hosting a series of webinars focusing on computer-assisted coding (CAC).

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Findability is Dependent on Access

By |November 1st, 2012

Healthline Networks’ health reference site -- Healthline.com -- launched its Consumer Engagement Platform. This new site enables health insurers and businesses to offer members and employees contextual searching of health data from electronic health records and medical claims.

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