New Product Enhances Data Mining
Pingar will soon launch its first Chinese search portal, after four years of working to develop the Chinese market.
April 2011
Semantic Enrichment for Publishers: Beyond Search and Browse
By Melody Smith|April 11th, 20112011-04-11T17:30:46-04:00
Using taxonomies and semantic tagging of articles to enable subject browsing and to improve Search are two of the most popular reasons why publishers invest in semantic technology, but the potential benefits are not limited to these two applications.
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Catholic Publication Goes Online
By Melody Smith|April 11th, 20112011-04-10T22:50:30-04:00
The first volume of The Southern Guardian has completed scanning, and every issue from the year 1911 is now available to read online. What may seem to be a small project, and indeed it may be, is valued by many.
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Looking Back At One Woman’s Adventure in Computer Science
By Melody Smith|April 11th, 20112011-04-11T11:31:10-04:00
Wendy Hall, previous president for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton in England, ponders on the past and looks forward to the future.
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SLA Conference Early Bird Deadline is Today
By Melody Smith|April 8th, 20112011-04-07T22:41:20-04:00
If you haven’t registered for the opportunity to connect with thousands of fellow information professionals, be inspired by their ideas and empowered by the history of the city – today is the last day to do so and qualify for the early bird discount.
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Dell and Perfect Search Join Forces
By Melody Smith|April 8th, 20112011-04-07T22:37:23-04:00
Eliminating the concern about wasting time and money searching for data, the folks over at Dell have joined forces with Perfect Search to offer the Perfect Search Appliance (PSA) as a solution for indexing and finding the information you need, now.
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Founder of Lucid to be Keynote Speaker at Lucene Revolution
By Melody Smith|April 8th, 20112011-04-07T22:35:35-04:00
Marc Krellenstein, founder of Lucid Imagination, is set to address “The Once and Future History of Enterprise Search and Open Source,” at Lucene Revolution 2011.
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Online Reputation Monitoring Tool Released
By Melody Smith|April 7th, 20112011-04-06T17:13:48-04:00
SAS has a new tool that allows companies to monitor social network conversations related to their brand and more actively manage their online reputation. This “fly on the wall” Conversation Centre tool is scheduled to be released in May and will be an addition to their Social Network Analysis (SNA) software.
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The Chicken or the Egg?
By Melody Smith|April 7th, 20112011-04-06T17:07:58-04:00
We all know that ontology itself came from the bio world identifying nature and relations of being. So can you share with me the irony that the sciences are building ontologies of ontology?
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Handling Big Data
By Melody Smith|April 7th, 20112011-04-06T17:06:31-04:00
Like most areas, there is no shortage of data in business intelligence, and again, the common issue is how to get access to it easily and quickly, especially when it’s stored in a wide variety of formats.
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