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Workshop on Semantics and Services

By Melody Smith | March 31, 2011

Atwood Technology is hosting the third Atlantic Workshop on Semantics and Services (AWoSS3) at its headquarters in Miramichi, New Brunswick, on May 18, 2011.

Frankfurt Conference Addresses Artificial Intelligence

By Melody Smith | March 30, 2011

Artificial intelligence is the topic of a conference in Frankfurt, Germany scheduled for August 15-20, 2011. AICOL (AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems) 2011 is set to further develop models of legal knowledge, concerning its organization, structure and content, in order to promote mutual understanding and communication between different legal systems and cultures.

Taiwan’s Think Tank Working in the Clouds

By Melody Smith | March 29, 2011

Taiwan GIS Centre — the country’s “think tank” — is developing a web-based spatial decision support system on the Government Cloud, which would enable the central and local government, private industries, and the general public to access spatial information through various medium.

Using Semantic Technology in Healthcare Portals

By Melody Smith | March 17, 2011

We all know the ultimate goal in any document management system is to for our data to be findable. Without that, the rest is a waste of time. If there is any field or genre that this has never been more important, it is healthcare.

Natural Language Processing Changes Language

By Melody Smith | March 11, 2011

New software system addresses the lack of language process systems for non-English electronic resources. Data mining with more accurate translation helps for computational processing of documents.

World Wide Wine?

By Melody Smith | February 24, 2011

We have all felt the anxiety behind ordering the appropriate wine with your meal. The waiter looks on impatiently as you struggle mentally with what sounds good to drink versus what fits into the “red meat/red wine and white meat/white wine” limited wine knowledge bank you possess. Never fear, semantic web technology is here to rescue you from embarrassment.

Setting Up the Store: Taxonomies in E-Commerce

By Melody Smith | February 7, 2011 |

HowHow can a business set up an e-commerce platform that effectively utilizes taxonomies to contribute to its bottom line? In the third of a four-part webinar series co-hosted by Access and the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T ), Jay Ven Eman will use a case-study approach to guide participants on how to effectively utilize taxonomies for web delivery, web search and even store layout.

Ontologies In Two Worlds

By Melody Smith | January 27, 2011

With the rise of computers and high-throughput data collection, ontologies have become essential to data mining and sharing across communities in the biomedical sciences. Powerful approaches exist for testing the internal consistency of an ontology, but not for assessing the fidelity of its domain representation; until now.

Call for Classification and Ontology Papers

By Melody Smith | January 21, 2011

Classification and Ontology is the third biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium) and hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands).

Cummins Appointed to Process Knowledge Initiative Team

By Melody Smith | December 27, 2010

OMG has announced that longtime OMG participant and Chair of OMG’s Business Modeling and Integration Task Force, Fred Cummins has been named as an expert participant on the Process Knowledge Initiative Technical Team.