Why Do We Index?

We index, or “tag”, using the taxonomy to improve precision. In part, we are doing that by defining the scope of the term that we use. So, we have a term that represents a concept but that term might be used for several concepts. We are defining in which way we are using the term ‘mercury’ within this corpus of information. We define the scope of the term, and that improves the precision.

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The Key to Findability is Taxonomies

Zenya has released multiple updates to their keyword platform, which results in improving clients’ control to leverage keyword data and eventually their marketing success. Their approach to keyword generation includes a database of more than 1.4 billion keywords, including 600 million categorized by searcher intent.

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Understanding the ICD-10 Risks

The ICD-10 coding classification conversion deadline has been set, again. Now it is time for healthcare providers to determine their game plan. During this year’s AHIMA conference in Chicago on September 30 – October 3 vendors will be on hand to help.

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EBSCO Made the Ranks

EBSCO has been named to this year’s InformationWeek 500. This annual listing of the nation’s most innovative users of business technology is a honorable place to land and they have done it twice.

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Visual Recognition Technology Developed

Researchers at Brown and the Technical University of Berlin have produced a program uses semantic understanding to identify simple sketches of objects almost as well as humans. Police and other law enforcement agencies use a similar technology to identify mug shots, but this technology goes farther by identifying more cartoonish features.

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Semantic Search Increases Findability

EasyAsk and DollarDays International approached the new school year with a semantic approach. DollarDays have doubled their number of products and increased traffic and memberships to their website. How did they do it? They attribute much of it to the strong and comprehensive semantic search feature found on their website.

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The Government’s Role in the Web

Web content management may very well be in the hands of the government. That may concern you, but the new digital government strategy laid out by the Obama administration reads, “New expectations require the federal government to be ready to deliver and receive digital information and services anytime, anywhere and on any device.”

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Countdown to Transition Creates Anxiety

The continued angst around ICD-10 coding classification transition surfaced in the monthly blog series, “ICD-10 in Real Time.” The many changes in healthcare happening at almost the same time is creating a very unique, one of a kind, perfect storm in the lives of healthcare providers.

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