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NEC develops high speed semantic search engine for text classification

NEC Corporation announced today the development of a "semantic search engine" that rapidly analyzes and classifies the meaning of text, enabling users to quickly and easily process information. Recent deployment of this search ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Novel high-performance hybrid system for semantic factoring of graph databases

Imagine trying to analyze all of the English entries in Wikipedia. Now imagine you've got 20 times as much information. That's the challenge scientists face when working with gigabyte data sets. Scientists ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Web interface defines new paradigm for life science data-sharing

A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed by researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A semantic sommelier: Wine application highlights the power of Web 3.0

In the restaurant of the future, you will always enjoy the perfect meal with that full-bodied 2006 cabernet sauvignon, you will always know your dinner companions' favorite merlot, and you will be able to check if the sommelier's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

When the zebra loses its stripes

The capacity to remember that a zebra has stripes, or that a giraffe is a four-legged mammal, is known as semantic memory. It allows us to assign meaning to words and to recall general knowledge and concepts that we have ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New application allows scientists easy access to important government data

Government agencies around the world make billions of bits of raw data available to the public each day, but this data is often in difficult formats or so widely spread around the Web it is virtually unusable ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rensselaer team shows how to analyze raw government data

Who is the White House’s most frequent visitor? Which White House staffer has the most visitors? How do smoking quit rates, state by state, relate to unemployment, taxes, and violent crimes? How do politics influence ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cut-and-paste simplicity for computer animation

Tools developed by European researchers bring cut-and-paste simplicity to gaming and animation. Users will be able to cut-and-paste complex elements like emotion, tone of voice and facial expression, making ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Jargon-busting software bridges the knowledge gap

Conversations between students and teachers, patients and doctors, and other groups of lay people and experts, such as users and helpdesk staff, can suffer because of the difference in knowledge levels of each party in the ...

Technology / Software

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Toward the Semantic Web

When the World Wide Web went live in 1991, it consisted of static pages of text connected to each other by hyperlinks, and that's pretty much what it remained for years. But from the outset, the Web's inventor, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Re-learning how to help professionals share their practice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Online tools developed in Europe have created completely new approaches in pedagogy -- the science of education.

Technology / Software

created May 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Software: running commentary for smarter surveillance?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cutting-edge surveillance software that automatically detects human motion, behaviour and facial expressions, generates a running commentary of what?s happening and re-enacts events virtually ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Developing web technologies to share secure information

Dr. Lalana Kagal and fellow researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a standard policy language to achieve flexible and dynamic Web security when information is shared between agencies, countries ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers developing techniques to strengthen the security of information systems

As computers increasingly transfer patient medical records and other sensitive information, a group of computer scientists at Kansas State University is doing basic research that will help designers keep such information ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What's his name again? How celebrity monikers can help us remember

Famous mugs do more than prompt us into buying magazines, according to new Université de Montréal research. In the December issue of the Canadian Journal on Aging, a team of scientists explain how the abilit ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0