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- Microsoft reorgs its search group
- Microsoft reorgs its search groupJust integrate Powerset ASAPI think MS should scramble to integrate Powerset's technology into its general search, and make the guys from this company generally take over search. These guys seem to know what they are doing.If NLP is the answer, what is the question?Powerset's technology is...
- Tags: Powerset, Microsoft Corp., natural language
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught
- Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naughtStill, it is VERY easy to change your search provider, or even try theother one out. With the OS, it is an entirely different story.Wow! I'm agreeing with you for the second time!I admit I was skeptical at first, but...
- Tags: Wiki, SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught
- Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its yawning Google and even Yahoo search gap? Probably not, but Powerset could give Microsoft a little leapfrog ability...
- Tags: Google Inc., Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search
- The rumors accumulating over the past few months were true: Microsoft has purchased natural-language search vendor Powerset for an undisclosed amount. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Developing a Business-Driven Strategy for Natural Language Processing Technologies
- Through On Demand Innovation Services - a partnership between IBM Research and Global Business Services - IBM was able to give the insurance and banking executives an integrated view of the technology itself and potential business applications. As a leader in the fields of speech and language processing, IBM Research...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language, IBM Corp.
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Ontology-Based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence
- Business Intelligence BI requires the acquisition and aggregation of key pieces of knowledge from multiple sources in order to provide valuable information to customers or feed statistical BI models and tools. The massive amount of information available to business analysts makes information extraction and other natural language processing tools key...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language, Extraction, Ontology, University Of Sheffield, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Databases, Strategy, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance
- White papers 2007-08-24
- Powerset: The natural language search mashup platform
- Powerset: The natural language search mashup platformnatural language searchYou should take a look at www.linguisticagents.com. It’s a start-up company that has developed a natural language understanding technology that will be used in many applications in addition to search. This technology uses a deep parsing algorithm that is based on nano-syntax...
- Tags: Engineering, natural language, mashup
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Google on Search: 'Natural Language works when it isn't'
- Google on Search: 'Natural Language works when it isn't'Natural Language works when we have semantic webI don't think it can be rival to Google, it can be an experiment project till we have semantic web, Google knows it very well, Gartner report says, it will take five years to see...
- Tags: Semantic Web, SEARCH, Google Inc., Natural Language, AdSentence
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- Google on Search:'Natural Language works when it isn't'
- Is “Natural Language” the magic search bullet that will dethrone the Google search kingdom? Powerset, a search start-up in “semi-stealth mode,” is now licensing Natural Language patents and technology from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center PARC, the New York Times reports: "Powerset hopes the technology will be the...
- Tags: Adam Bosworth, Google, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, Search, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
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- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- ‘The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Truevert stands on Yahoo!'s shoulders; learning to search for Green issues
- Joining the growing band of search solutions built on top of Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Search Service BOSS initiative, Truevert seeks to apply semantics in providing a particular slant on searches across Yahoo!'s index. Topically, Truevert "is focused on green, environmental...
- Tags: Taxonomy, Yahoo! Inc., Ontology, Search Result, Truevert, Search, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security
- Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications. This decision is a "good thing" for not just applications but also application security on the iPhone. The iPhone NDA was antithetical to how developers work....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Flaw, Programming, Development Tools, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...
- Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration
- Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic].....Sounds similar to the other candidates too... ]:)Simplified version/* Sarah's playbook */repeat {__receivequestion; __if (IMayHaveAClueAboutquestion)__{____reciteMyScripts;__}__else __{____winkAtCamera;____ignorequestion;____printf("... but I'd like to focus on my own topics.");____dumpIrrelevantAnswers;__}} until (hostLeavesMeOffHook)RE: Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]Spot on!BidenIn the case of Biden he just makes stuff up. Facts never...
- Tags: Government, Sarah Palin, flowchart
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Citizen journalism might try to kill you
- Citizen journalism might try to kill youDouble edged swordCitizen journalism almost sounds like a contradiction. One one hand, so many people nowadays carry a device that can at least take snapshots, but more are taking video. Real journalists can't get to where a story is very fast so it takes...
- Tags: Citizen Journalism
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?
- Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Stop brain-dead software testing!
- Stop brain-dead software testing!re: Stop brain-dead software testingin reality, its not usually software testing that's the problem. it's the project stakeholders who don't plan enough time to do adequate testing. it's the programmers who go way over their time estimates. it's the program managers or similar role...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software testing, software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer
- Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installerPerformance?Let alone the installer size, does anyone else out there have kind of mediocre performance with iTunes in Windows Vista? I've had a number of times where it just seems to come up black, or respond slowly, or syncing just slows my PC to...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, installer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Portraits of Autumn screensaver (pd)
- This free screensaver from American Greetings showcases three beautiful autumn settings: a waterfall, a park bench under a natural canopy, and a covered bridge, all framed in the brilliant colors of fall. In each environment, leaves fall and other animations affect the changing screen.Note: The screensavers from American Greetings require...
- Tags: American Greetings Corp., Screensaver
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
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