That’s What She Said?
Did you ever think a computer could tell a joke? Or even have a sense of humor? Semantic technology continues to progress as two University of Washington researchers put their coding skills to the test. They developed a computer program that can identify whether a seemingly benign sentence might turn risqué if you add on “that’s what she said.”
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Combining massive resources, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com have joined forces to help people research the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors. The millions of records from WWII victims will be combined into a specially designed software program by Ancestry, dubbed the World Memory Project.
Read MoreThe Standards of Watson
By now, IBM’s Jeopardy! champion Watson is old news. But the computer technology triumph, capable of understanding human language and broad knowledge topics, may have more to teach us.
Read MoreBaby Name Database Launched
A new baby name portal has been launched using a flexible and user-friendly search interface. Babynology provides additional details including background, meaning and usage patterns.
Read MoreBizSphere Joins IBM Global Entrepreneur Initiative
BizSphere is now the latest member of the IBM Global Entrepreneur initiative. This initiative was created to help the ‘next generation of entrepreneurs’ who develop software based innovations to capture emerging business opportunities.
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Many IT professionals are overwhelmed with tools and techniques available to initiate enterprise data modeling programs. Using a practical balance between enterprise and project points of view, data modeling enables IT groups to respond quickly and effectively to business needs.
Read MoreRemoving the IT Supply Chain Barriers
A common challenge for IT departments involves the supply chain and the barriers that prevent that from working smoothly. The cause of these barriers is typically because of disconnected decisions and actions made by both business and IT. The question is, how can we change this?
Read MoreNot True!
The Autonomy folks must be getting worried about the progress of taxonomy applications and the precision and recall that such systems provide. Autonomy and Google live on relevance rankings as the return to the user. Relevance to me is a confidence game. It is the best guess of the system as to whether the results returned will actually match the user’s request. If you have a big enough data set returned, certainly something in there will be useful. But the sheer amount of items the user has to review (or amount of noise they have to look at) is very annoying. So they rank the returns by relevance based on a number of statistical factors so the most likely items based on co-occurrence with terms matches and near matches will appear at the top of the list – that is, they will be relevance ranked.
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