New UK centre for text mining may improve information management

The JISC, BBSRC AND EPSRC have announced funding of £1m to establish a National Centre for Text Mining. The remit of the Centre, the first publicly funded centre in the world, is to contribute to the associated national and international research agenda, to establish a service for the wider academic community, and to make connections with industry.

Air Force acquires geographic search tool

The Air Force Office of Special Investigations has recently purchased a tool developed by MetaCarta Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., that organizes and presents geographic information on suspected and potential terrorists.

Terry Vinograd inducted into the Computer-Human Interaction Academy

Nstein Technologies acquires KMtechnologies

Nstein Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: EIN), an emerging leader in new Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, announced today that it has acquired KMtechnologies, a Canadian software developer of web-based collaboration solutions as well as document, knowledge and customer-relations management solutions.

Language Weaver Honored As Company Of The Year

Language Weaver, Inc., a software company developing statistical machine translation software (SMTS), today announced it has been chosen as Company of the Year in the start-up category by the attendees at The Venture Forum produced by Larta Institute.

Research on English and Foreign Language Exploitation - REFLEX

The Department of the Interior, National Business Center (NBC), Acquisition and Property Management Division, Southwest Branch, Fort Huachuca AZ, acting as the contracting agent for the Intelligence Technology Innovation Center (ITIC) and other Intelligence Community, Defense, and Homeland Security agencies, invites the submission of research proposals for developing technology that partially or fully automates aspects of the process of acquiring information from text documents and other natural language-based sources. Government information analysts need dramatic improvements over today's capabilities in order to be able to accomplish their analytic tasks in the future.

Robo-talk helps pocket translator

Small robots with friendly faces have helped out in the development of handheld translation gadgets to be tried out by travellers in Japan.