Silverchair is Hosting SPIE Digital Library
Silverchair Information Systems will be hosting the SPIE Digital Library, a research resource on optics and photonics, on its SCM6 semantic product development and hosting platform.
New Management Team at Sprylogics
Sprylogics has a new Chief Executive Officer after Michael Frank stepped down as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company in order to pursue other interests. Marvin Igelman has accepted the role. Two additional members have been added to the management team - Brad Marks and Bhavuk Kaul have joined as the VP of Product Development and VP of Product Marketing, respectively.
Natural Language Processing Only Goes So Far
The sirens call of natural language processing has been issued again. In this study, the researchers compared the use for free text searches to administrative codes to see which would give better indication of safety based on 20 indicators. The authors rightly suggest that instead of relying only on the notoriously poor check boxes used with discharge orders that the hand written notes form the discharge nurse or physician might be much more instructive.
Traveling Semantically
We often talk about how semantic technology has changed the IT world, the search world, and even the healthcare world, but how has it affected the retail world of travel? The product of travel is about price, time and place; not much different than buying seasonal produce. Shopping the experience means using customer benefits, words, and concepts to wrap the travel product in advance – to anticipate customer needs.
New Academic Publishing Platform Being Built
Publishing Technology has been selected to build an academic publishing platform for GSE Research. The new online platform for research into governance, sustainability and the environment will be built using Publishing Technology’s innovative semantic web based publishing software, pub2web.
US Army & AI
Ariston Consulting and ai-one has formed a strategic partnership that will provide the US Army's Electronic Proving Grounds with machine learning tools to test and evaluate military Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, and Intelligence Test Bed (C5ISR) systems.
Ontology Work Completed for Semantics Repository
The EDM Council has completed the ontology work necessary to add corporate actions to its Semantics Repository, and now plans to work with the Object Management Group (OMG) to make the repository an ontology standard.
New Start-Up Using Semantic Search
Locu is a data-focused startup founded by MIT graduates and computer science researchers that plan to create the world’s largest real-time, structured repository of small business offerings data. Their goal is that this data source will increase the efficiency of local search.
Is Semantic Search Trendy?
Semantic search and extraction of data from natural language and pictures are continuing to increase in popularity. As evidence of that trend, Hewlett-Packard recently […]
Cost Reduction Options for Hospitals
Many are concerned about the cost of healthcare, patients and hospitals alike. Cuts in Medicare funding, increases in insurance premiums, and new federal requirements […]