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Microsoft Introduces Multi-Modal Topic Inferencing in Video Indexer

Content categorization by topics is an intuitive and deductive approach. However, this approach does not work well with videos because topics are not explicitly apparent and hence difficult to deduct intuitively from a video. To overcome this challenge, Microsoft has introduced multi-modal topic inferencing in Video Indexer — an application that builds upon media AI […]

How Knowledge Engineering Enables Enterprises to Reap Financial Return from Their AI Effort

In this article, Larry Lafferty, CEO of Veloxiti, Inc., a company that builds artificial intelligence systems, provides enterprise decision makers with an understanding of how AI systems deliver a valuable business return. In his article, Larry discusses the features of the implicit and explicit models and their strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, he brings out the […]

Ontologists as change agents in Semantic Banking

In a blog post, Rik Coeckelbergs, founder of the financial services company, The Banking Scene, explores the role of ontologists in semantic banking. According to Rik, semantic banking introduces a standard language for everything – for products, processes, business units, business logic, business rules, data classification, software, and IT systems. The advantages of having a […]

How Hierarchical Classification was used to Label Content with Academic Subjects

Quizlet’s community-curated catalog of study sets — 300 million and growing — covers a wide range of academic subjects. On one hand, such a large and varied content catalog empowers Quizlet users to master any subject under the sun. On the other hand, it creates interesting information retrieval problems. Dustin Stansbury, a data scientist at […]

Three ways AI could revitalize information management in 2019

Most of us working on big data and big content are familiar with the challenges of locating important information residing within various systems and repositories. What if we could use artificial intelligence (AI) to overcome these challenges? For instance, can we use AI to search and recycle useful information, and even get rid of redundant […]

2019 Industry Predictions for Knowledge Graph Technologies

As predicted, 2018 was also the year of the graph. Many new graph products were launched. Enterprises became conversant with graph products and were comfortable when deploying solutions based on knowledge graph technologies. So, what is in store for knowledge graph technologies in 2019? What key themes and trends will emerge across the industry? In […]

Do search engines obviate the need for taxonomies?

There is a general perception that search engines such as Google have eliminated the need for taxonomies. To address this misconception Heather Hedden, a taxonomist at Cengage Learning, an education and technology company, surmises the multiple ways by which taxonomies support search. In search, there is a trade-off between precision and recall. For instance, web […]

Is academic publishing finally catching up with the future?

The arrival of new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and machine learning are causing more than just a stir in the academic publishing sector. Several key players in academic publishing including SAGE, Springer Nature and Elsevier are commissioning R&D projects to see how they can improve what they do by leveraging these technologies. Elsevier’s […]

Leveraging a taxonomy as a source for disambiguation

Language riddled with double meanings, implications, misspellings, and slang make word sense disambiguation incredibly challenging. Under such challenging circumstances what can be done to address the problems associated with word sense disambiguation, especially homographs? Ahren Lehnert, Senior Manager, Text Analytics Solutions with Synaptica, LCC, an enterprise taxonomy and ontology management software and solutions provider, suggests […]

AI2 and Microsoft Research Join Forces to Widen the Scope of Scientific Research Tools

GeekWire’s aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle reports that The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is collaborating with Microsoft Research to upgrade search tools for scientific studies. The intent behind connecting AI2’s Semantic Scholar academic search engine with the Microsoft Academic Graph is to widen the sphere of scientific search tools. Semantic Scholar is […]