News tagged with semantic
Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading
Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the first alphabetic ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Rich musical pickings with easier access to archives
(PhysOrg.com) -- Digital sound archives offer enormously rich resources but accessing them is currently difficult, and often arbitrary. European researchers believe they have developed a solution, one that offers compelling ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Saving time -- and money -- with semantic design
Whether designing the sleek body of a new Ferrari or laying out a mould for its brake casings, engineers spend an inordinate amount of time searching through design data. A new semantic engineering environment developed by ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Faster, better patent processing
Processing patents is complex and time-consuming. Using semantic web technology, researchers have come up with a powerful tool to process patents faster and better.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Effects of disease severity on autobiographical memory in semantic dementia revealed in new study
In a study conducted by the Laboratory of Neuropsychology of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie and published by Elsevier in the April 2009 issue of Cortex, researchers studied for the first time autobiographical memory ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Taking cues: Sometimes environmental cues can activate thrifty behavior
Consumers are constantly bombarded with subtle and even subconscious cues from their environment. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines whether these cues activate goals that affect behavior in the long t ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Google search gets semantic
Google on Tuesday modified its globally popular Internet search service to understand relationships between words, as the company bids to better grasp what Web users are looking for.
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Ancient cultures a click away
(PhysOrg.com) -- Portals used to launch you, Stargate-style, to bizarre places brought to life by science fiction writers. Today, thanks to European research, portals can take you to fascinating virtual destinations - both ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Wolfram Alpha Could Answer Questions that Google Can't
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new search engine described as an "electronic brain" could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Semantic web promises a smarter electricity grid
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people’s homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plants. A new semantic web technology ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Tropical cyclone or ISU Cyclone? Semantic science search engine knows that there is a difference
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost everyone who has used a major internet search engine has had the same experience: Search for "Dodge convertible" and 0.16 seconds later you have 4.3 million links to web pages on dodge ball, Dodge ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 04, 2009 |
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LeapFish hopes for success in crowded field of metasearch
"It's OK," the message on the LeapFish home page assures visitors, "you're not cheating on Google."
Jan 21, 2009 |
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