News tagged with semantic
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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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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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
Feb 23, 2011 |
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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
Jul 27, 2010 |
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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
Jun 22, 2010 |
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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
Dec 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 27, 2009 |
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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 ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 04, 2009 |
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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, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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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 ...
Jul 01, 2009 |
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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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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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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
May 31, 2011 |
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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
Dec 20, 2010 |
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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 ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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