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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 ...

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (35) | comments 17 weblog

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.

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created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (12) | comments 4

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

The right honourable computer, barrister-at-law

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement ...

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

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 ...

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

It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images

(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...

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created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Jinni: Semantic Search for Movies

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most interesting things I have come across over the Internet is the movie search engine Jinni. Can't think of anything to watch tonight? Type in a phrase, and dozens of moves app ...

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 weblog

Semantic research sets world standards

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created new tools for semantic technology development which are helping to set the next generation of official standards. The tools also unblock some key bottlenecks ...

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created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

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

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

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

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 ...

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

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."

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created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...

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

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 ...

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