Where Will the Semantic Web Take Us?
Knowledge graphs are quickly becoming more common as the semantic web continues to be more relevant. Actually it is more of an increase in awareness of the semantic web, as it has always been relevant.
How the Semantic Web Has Changed Us
The web changes daily and how we are or aren't changing with it is the topic of an interesting discussion brought to us by Balkans Business News. The article titled, "David Amerland - Helpmyseo.com Founder, SEO / Social Media Consultant, and Author of Google Semantic Search", used a question and answer format to discuss the semantic web and what it means for the world of technology.
Delivering Results
Provider of semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy managment sofware, Concept Searching, is celebrating a revenue growth of 40% for the first half of fiscal 2013. This is compared to the same period in 2012.
Awards for Semantic Technology
Google has awarded over $1.2 million to support research in several areas of several natural language understanding that relate to Google's concept of the Knowledge Graph. This substantial investment in machine learning is motivated by their need to further search technology.
Professor Recognized for Semantic Contribution
Professor Ronen Feldman, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of text mining as well as co-founder and chief scientist at Digital Trowel, has been selected as one of five finalists to compete for the prestigious 2013 AQR Insight Award.
Recognition for Semantic Technology
FeedBooster has been awarded a “Best Of 2013″ solution in Knowledge Management by Initiative Mittelstand. FeedBooster’s web-based feed reader is powered by Q-Sensei’s search and indexing technology.
AI, Semantics, and Other Technology
Artificial intelligence continues to tease even the most scientific professionals. The idea of a man-made technology that can rival human intelligence in processing and understanding is the brass ring for many. So it was no surprise when IBM’s Watson fascinated technologists during its performance on Jeopardy in 2011. Interestingly, many searches on Google are done in the form of questions. If the search engine had a better understanding of the natural language, the ability to answer questions would be enhanced. This interesting topic was discussed on the Seeking Alpha blog in their post, “The Search Engine Of The Future.”
Looking Forward with Ontologies
Detecting defects in ontologies has always been important, but with the increased use of ontologies and ontology mappings in semantically-enabled applications, the importance has increased exponentially.