Understanding Intention

By Melody Smith | March 8, 2012

Fact-Finder is a well-known semantic search guru that just went live on a German online travel agency. This recent international adventure was the brain-child of Carsten Kraus, Fact-Finder founder.

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Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 5

By Melody Smith | March 5, 2012

This is the next piece in our series of blog posts on search and how it works This time we are talking about the importance of relevancy. Relevance is how well a set of returned documents answers the information need, another way of talking about accuracy. But, it’s related to the objective of the search so different user communities can get exactly the same answer from a set of information resources and one will find the set relevant and the other will not. So, there’s a really healthy tension between the user needs and the context available. That’s why a lot of relevance engines do a lot of profiling of the users so that, if I search Google for a particular question, I might get one answer and each of you will search it and get a different answer. That’s because your profile and the things that you’ve clicked on in the past will indicate to Google that your answers should be more in this sphere or more in that sphere. So, relevance is really a confidence factor or a guesstimate on how well this set of documents will answer this particular user’s query.

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Social Insight

By Melody Smith | March 5, 2012

LocalResponse is now offering an analytics and action platform for marketers. This new adventure will help marketers take advantage of consumer intent by mining mentions and location-enabled check-ins on various social media sites.

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Pilot Program Offered for Semantic Project

By Melody Smith | March 2, 2012

Kyield has announced a new pilot program for its patented semantic enterprise platform. This particular artificial intelligence system provides a holistic architecture that extends advanced business intelligence and predictive analytics to all information workers in the organization.

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Smarter Assistants Are Possible

By Melody Smith | February 29, 2012

Siri, IBM’s Watson and other such services are good examples of how smart personal assistants are increasingly listening and understanding what is being said. Computers are increasingly using natural language processing, semantic analysis, and machine learning, combined with data to understand humans, conjure up answers and recommendations or direct people to services and information.

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Managing Data and Science

By Melody Smith | February 28, 2012

Thermo Fisher Scientific releases an updated version of their ProteinCenter software. This product includes more than 223 million protein-protein interactions in its database and direct support for the Cytoscape open source platform. This new version of ProteinCenter includes plug-ins for bioinformatics, social network analysis, and the semantic web.

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Smart Content Framework Announced

By Melody Smith | February 22, 2012

Concept Searching announces formation of the Smart Content Framework, a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, manage information and address compliancy. This player in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software claims the framework has proven to be a flexible solution to address recurring problems in organizations of any size or in any industry.

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Semantic Technology Enhancing Discovery Process

By Melody Smith | February 17, 2012 |

A new version of eView has been released by Integreon that features adaptive coding technology to automate categorization, prioritization, and batch coding during the e-discovery review process. KM World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Integreon presents eView 4.0.” Their approach involves machine learning techniques and analysis consultation, providing a cost-effective solution for…

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