Technology and Social Media
The Internet has changed the way we communicate, connect, and do business. The new technologies stemming from the Internet continue to appear every day. One industry that has embraced that technology growth is the hospitality industry. With hotel e-commerce, the industry has forever changed.
Read MoreSearch Technology Can Reduce Cost
Splunk machine data search engine has released a new version that comes with a distributed indexing technology. This new release can save money for storage. Version 5 can also generate reports faster than its predecessor and that too can help the bottom line.
Read MoreThe Fear of Change
Many physicians are still not on board with the impending ICD-10 coding classification transition. There is fear around the moving deadline and worry about the added strain on their resources.
Read MoreAdopting and Adapting Existing Word Lists and Taxonomies
In traditional taxonomy construction, you approach the body of knowledge, head for your ivory tower with its closed room and decide on the general structure of the field or discipline. From that single point, or perhaps multiple points, of knowledge, you are going to design a completely new taxonomy … and every now and then that works.
Read MoreFree Semantic Search Workshop
If you are interested in learning more about semantic search and how it can improve your work, here is an opportunity for a free workshop to do just that. This workshop is brought to you in a joint effort by NKOS (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems) and CENDI, an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies.
Read MoreSetting Records
Sysomos is celebrating the indexing of 100,000,000,000 social posts. This milestone of collecting social media data in real time from various sources such as blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and news sources is equivalent of 14 times the population of the Earth. Now we know why they say perspective is everything.
Read MoreMarjorie Hlava Presents Keynote Speech at 23rd Annual SIG/CR Workshop
On October 26, 2012, Access Innovations, Inc. president Marjorie M.K. Hlava presented an afternoon keynote speech at the 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, part of the American Society for Information Science and Technology’s 75th annual meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Read MoreFinancial Taxonomy Consistency
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.”
Read MoreAwards Given for Technology Contribution
KMWorld Magazine’s judging panel has chosen its “KM Promise and Reality” award winners from among the many nominations they received. KM World brought this news to us in their article, “KMWorld 2012 Promise and Reality award winners and finalists.” Cambridge Semantics was the winner of the KMWorld Promise Award. Cambridge is the developer of the Anzo…
Read MoreWatson is Going to School
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.
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