SharePoint 2013 Presents New Features
With the SharePoint 2013 public beta released, WAND DataFacet Automatic Tagging Engine is on target to provide advanced tagging capabilities to SharePoint 2013.
Free Semantic Search Workshop
If you are interested in learning more about semantic search and how it can improve your work, here is an opportunity for a free workshop to do just that. This workshop is brought to you in a joint effort by NKOS (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems) and CENDI, an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies.
Watson is Going to School
The supercomputer named Watson was a big hit last year when it became famous for beating two Jeopardy! champions. By using its IBM natural language processor, it perused its vast reams of knowledge to respond the oral questions. Now, Watson will help medical students at Cleveland Clinic analyze medical problems and develop evidence-based solutions. By using its base of medical knowledge, it will be a valuable partner to medical students. In return, students will help improve Watson's language and domain analysis capabilities. So medical students and Watson will benefit from each other's strengths and expertise.
Predictive Video Analysis with Semantic Technology
Researchers have developed a video surveillance system that intends to use artificial intellgience to reason about human activity. This project was funded by the US Army and is keyed to flag abnormal behaviour.
New Semantic Technology Gets Funding
The web service, Silk, has received funding from Silicon Valley royalty to build out its vision of connecting the world via semantic technology. This significant investment into a self-service semantic engine that can help companies and individuals understand, drill down, and work with data, documents, and content is a milestone for this corporation.
Award Recognizes Innovations in Technology
Jim Hendler has been honored with an inaugural Strata Data Innovation Award. The honoree is the head of the Department of Computer Science and senior constellation professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The award is given to individuals who have made significant innovations in the data field.
New Social Search in Use
Eventster is a new application that aggregates events and then further differentiates them using semantic technologies. The result is additional information to help you identify events you want to attend, and those you don't.
Semantic Technology Used in the Campaigns
With the election now over, the yard signs and television advertisements can disappear and none too soon. However, Expert System did a linguistic and semantic analysis of the third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and challenger, former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney and have released the highlights. It is interesting to see semantic technology used in such a way.
A Different Type of Search Engine
What is a vertical search engine? It is technically defined as a search engine that focuses on a specific segment of content or topic. What is the advantage of this type of search engine? One of the most significant advantages is the ability to easily determine the intent of the user.
Those Were The Days
Search engine optimization used to be fairly straightforward. You include the right keywords to your website and when someone conducted a search containing those same words, you showed up in the results. Not so much anymore.