Slashdot | DARPA Contracts For AI Technology

Slashdot | DARPA Contracts For AI Technology: "DARPA has contracted two professors from RPI to develop artificial intelligences that can learn by reading and understanding natural language."

2B enhances Factiva's reputation

2B enhances Factiva's reputation - Computeractive: "Factiva has acquired the business and assets of 2B Reputation Intelligence, but details of the deal were not disclosed. 2B provide media and reputation monitoring software, as well as consulting services. Clare Hart, president and CEO of Factiva said the two companies have been working together for over a year and described 2B as a 'critical piece for an effective reputation management solution'.

'Whilst we were re-assessing the market this looked like the best way to accelerate our re-entry into the market,' Hart said of the decision to acquire 2B after dropping IBM.

Factiva announced in December 2004 that the IBM WebFountain web analysis platform was being dropped as the core technology for Factiva Insight for Reputation. WebFountain failed to provide timely content for analysis according to Factiva insiders. Hart denied that the IBM chapter had put Factiva behind in its reputation management plans."

Corpora launches 'language-savvy' knowledge discovery tool

.:: SourceWire :: ::.: "'Language-savvy' Jump! tackles the assault of information overload and simplifies working life by enabling people to interrogate large electronic documents for relevant details quickly and easily. Launched by knowledge management company, Corpora plc, the new tool 'speed-reads' material to create a map of contents that accelerates understanding and improves efficiency. "

Live OpenSource Dictionary Project

I am glad this group of people started this project which contains a lot of the features we had projected years ago at Logos Corp. but never implemented. Live OpenSource Dictionary Project - About Us: "Lingster is the first ever freeware multilingual dictionary initiative launched to help language enthusiasts to keep up with constantly evolving languages. New words emerge on a daily basis, and both general and domain-specific dictionaries are hopelessly lagging behind. Argot and slang represent yet another rapidly moving target that is hard to follow with conventional language-learning methods."

CBS News | Defining Google | January 2, 2005�20:01:07

CBS News | Defining Google | January 2, 2005�20:01:07
...Google engineer Alan Eustace explains, "One of the ideas that we’re working on is machine translation. We strongly believe that there’s enough data on the Web and in the world right now to allow us to automatically translate from one language to another." ...

Slashdot | Post-Googleism At IBM With Piquant

Slashdot Post-Googleism At IBM With Piquant - a discussion of this NY Times article by James Fallows. IBM Systems Journal fall 2004 issue discusses more in detail Unstructured information which represents the vast majority of the data collected and accessible to enterprises. This data may be in various formats and may lack the organization of traditional sources such as database records. Exploiting this information requires systems for managing and extracting knowledge from large collections of unstructured data and applications for discovering patterns and relationships. This issue presents eight papers on the tools, methods, and architectures which are evolving for managing unstructured information in areas such as life science and market research. The issue also contains a paper on managing an enterprise architecture and one on autonomic computing systems.

LXA:: Products

LXA:: Products: "The Lexalytics Knowledge Appliance® is a new class of software that solves a problem no search engine has been able to: actually make the data better than it was to begin with. The application provides the ability to search, find and extract relevant data and content from desktops, the Internet, corporate intranets and extranets. All of the important concepts from the data (people, companies, places, sentiment or tone classifications and documents summaries) are added to the original documents as enriched XML. This enriched content can be fed to any search engine or database product allowing new ways to utilize the content."