Answering the World’s Questions
Semantic technology is being used to build a large-scale platform to answer questions, interactively.
Read MoreAgenda Announced for SemTech
The agenda for the 2011 SemTech conference and expo in San Francisco in June has been released. A full spectrum of business, government, and consumer activity is scheduled around the field of semantic technology.
Read MoreName Change to Focus Direction
Speed-Trap has announced a name change to Celebrus Technologies Limited. This comes as part of their strategic plan to grow, promote and internationalize their products and services.
Read MoreMetadata May Be Taking the Stand
Companies that deliver and manage electronic discovery services, metadata, or data that is embedded in electronic documents, can tell us precisely how and when an electronic document was created, modified, and transmitted. Thus, letting the document tell its own story.
Read MoreLucid Imagination Joins the SharePoint Crowd
In a familiar story, we learned that Lucid Imagination released an update to their LucidWorks Enterprise product this week that includes a way of connecting the search tool directly to SharePoint repositories.
Read MoreParts Locator Goes High Tech
A new website has been launched to assist drivers, dealers, and repair shops to locate parts. Seems like an easy task, but with FinditParts.com, products from more than 800 manufacturers and OEMs are available.
Read MoreQ&A Startup Stops
The paint is barely dry on the closed sign for Q&A start-up PeerPong, but competitor Formspring has already picked up PeerPong CEO Ro Choy to serve as its COO, as well as a few other former PeerPong employees.
Read MorePromise of Rejection
On a totally unrelated, but very enjoyable topic, I must share a blog that was recently brought to my attention – Reprobatio Certa. This humorous, however very eloquently written blog is defined as Rejection letters, correspondence, and miscellanea from the otherwise empty annals of the Journal of Universal Rejection.
Read MoreMultilingual UDC Summary Shows Progress
The Multilingua Universal Decimal Classification Summary project, containing an abridged schedule of over 2000 classes with notes and examples, continues to progress with 40 languages online, some completely translated and others in various stages of translation.
Read MoreName Disambiguation Musings
The Wall Street Journal on April 19, 2011 talked about the need for customer name authority control in banks. Okay, so maybe that is not what they said. What they did outline was the problem Arabic names and the many ways to state them gives to banks and other organizations which try to track the information or put a hold on funds for organizations like the example, Moammar Gadhafi. Also know as many other names. His first name could be transliterated as Muammar, Mummar, Mohamed Mahmut, Mehmud and more than 20 other variants. The same goes last name could be Gaddafi, Ghathafi, Elkaddafi, El-Kaddafi, Al-Gaddafi, Gadhafi, Qaddafi, Al-Qadhafi, El-Qaddfi, Qadhafi, Abu Miryar Al-Qahafi, Ghadaffi, and others. Any combination of these names is valid. There are further complications of the Abu or Al or El and other designations of honor make things even more interesting.
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