Posts Tagged ‘Semantic’
New Ontology Partnership
Semantic technology company, Ontotext, and Structured Dynamics have formed a partnership to address some of the key semantic “gaps” in the semantic Web. The partnership will focus on development of the next generation of the UMBEL and PROTON ontologies, as well as tools and applications based on them.
Read MoreFree Webinar Addresses Semantic Tools and More
On Thursday, November 4th at 1 p.m. EST, Siteworx will host a live webinar titled, “Enterprise Search – Key Driver of Today’s Best Web Experiences,” featuring Leslie Owens, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc.
Read MoreIt’s All Semantics
Mondeca, provider of semantic technologies, is launching two software products that improve the way enterprises manage content annotation and rich knowledge structures, such as ontologies, thesauri, taxonomies, terminologies, metadata repositories, knowledge bases, and Linked Open Data. Whew, that was a mouthful.
Read MoreComputers Learning Like Humans
Scientists are trying to find a new way for computers to learn over time and start analyzing information in more human-like ways. A little scary, but sounds a lot like semantic technology to me.
Read MoreAnother Use of Semantic Technology
A new partnership between Content Analyst and TCDI will incorporate Content Analyst Analytics Technology (CAAT) into TCDI’s proprietary e-discovery application suites: Discovery WorkFlow and ClarVergence.
Read MoreWhere Are They Now?
Tech companies come and go. There are always tech savvy entrepreneurs with big ideas looking to fill a need in the market and investors looking to get the huge returns that only come from investing in tech startups.
But tech is risky, markets are volatile, and oftentimes what seems like a good idea is not always as good once implemented in the real world. A good example of this is the dot com boom and subsequent bust in the early 21st century. You could get funding on a back of the envelop business plan. Billions of dollars were invested in tech startups with big ideas and big dreams. Many of these dreams were shattered when investors realized they were not getting the same returns they had hoped.
Read MoreBook Review: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
iProgrammer reviews the book Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies by Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch & Sebastian Rudolph. The reviewer points out that the book is an academic book and though very approachable, will deliver what you would expect from an academic book.
Read MoreThe Semantic Web in Specific Enterprise Technologies
IE as in Information Extraction, not the other one, is defined in the book Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems, John Davies, Rudi Studer, and Paul Warren define this type of IE as “a technology based on analyzing natural language in order to extract snippets of information.”
Read MoreAre Computers Any Match For Human Intelligence?
Computer’s biggest challenge is unraveling semantics, understanding the meaning of language. Beyond the actual definition, context impacts everything. A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has been working since the beginning of the year on fine-tuning a computer system that is trying to master semantics by learning more like a human.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Gets Another User
Trying to filter and make sense of the real-time stream of data that comes from Twitter and other social networks, new start-up Tweetbeat offers something other services can’t – four years’ worth of semantic analysis and taxonomic structure.
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