Stephen Lief brings technology and law practice management expertise to the company and elevates business development strategy
LOS ANGELES – April 1, 2010 – Cognition Technologies, the next-generation Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) company, announces that Stephen J. Lief has joined the company as their legal e-discovery business development expert. His role is to expand the company’s growth by developing partnerships with e-discovery vendors, law firms and enterprise legal departments.
Cognition’s Proprietary Semantic Technologies to be leveraged by Microsoft’s DecisionEngine Bing™ and Other Applications
LOS ANGELES – February 16, 2010 — Cognition Technologies, the creator of the most advanced and complete semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology on the market, today announced that Microsoft Corp. has licensed some of its proprietary semantic technologies and will be using them to enhance Bing and other applications within Microsoft. Specifically, Microsoft will incorporate Cognition’s comprehensive and robust Semantic Map of the English language.
The non-exclusive licensing arrangement enables Microsoft to embed elements of Cognition’s semantic technologies into any Microsoft application which would benefit from an “understanding” of the English language. Initially, it will be used to enhance the user experience in Bing, Microsoft’s online decision engine.
Cognition’s New Advanced Syntactic Parser, Combined with the World’s Largest Semantic Map of English, Enables Tag-Free Semantic Search
LOS ANGELES – November 5, 2009 — Cognition Technologies, the next-generation Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) company, announces a significant advancement in its Semantic Search capabilities through the release of its advanced syntactic parser module. Cognition’s powerful Search technology is currently available as an embedded component within applications to make them “semantically aware.” Examples of this include LexisNexis Concordance and Merrill Lextranet within the legal e-discovery and litigation support markets, where it is being used to cut document review time and costs by 30-50 percent and significantly improve search precision and recall across large data sets. Other applications enhanced by Cognition’s advanced Semantic NLP include interpretation of voice interaction, user question interpretation, mobile Search, customer sentiment analysis, medical informatics and publishing. (more…)
In advance of the Boston Search Engine Meeting, Dr. Dahlgren, Cognition Technologies’ CTO and founder, was interviewed by Harry Collier of Infonortics and the interview was posted on Stephen Arnold’s ArnoldIT.com site.
It is a great interview and a cutting-edge look at the future of search as seen through the eyes of our very own Dr. Dahlgren. In the article she discusses what she views as the three major challenges in the search field, as well as many other important facts about Semantic NLP and the Semantic Web.
Great article about Merrill Lextranet, a Cognition Technologies’ customer:
After evaluating and using Merrill Lextranet’s 5.6 version of its case management solution, we would definitely place it in that category and consider it to be among the best-in-class solutions currently available.
Cognition Technologies is part of Merrill Lextranet’s solution:
Lextranet has augmented its native search capabilities with conceptual search, in this case by incorporating third-party software from Cognition. Conceptual search looks for documents not by matching keywords, but rather by identifying documents containing words related to a concept. For example, a conceptual search for the word “airplane” might return documents that do not contain the word “airplane,” but do contain the word “glider” or “helicopter.”
It’s behind a pay-wall, but the Los Angeles Business Journal interviewed Cognition CEO, Scott Jarus, and wrote about Cognition here.
Here’s a snippet:
Depending on what word you type into an Internet search engine, you can get a range of results. One man’s rat could be a rodent and another man’s rat could be a traitor.
Now, Cognition Technologies Inc., a Culver City firm, thinks it has a solution. This month, it introduced what it calls the largest semantic map of the English language for computers.
Another semantic search technology vendor also entered the health space: Cognition Technologies, Inc. introduced Semantic MEDLINE, a free service that lets users employ a natural, conversational sentence structure to search the MEDLINE database. It uses Cognition’s Semantic Map technology to “understand” the meaning behind words, phrases, and idioms.
The most interesting part of the article to me were the survey stats by Trampoline Systems:
Trampoline Systems, a provider of enterprise social intelligence tools, studied enterprise social networking, surveying 111 businesses in the U.S. and the U.K. The company’s research revealed that 88% of businesses are eager to start using social networking, although many are looking for more business functionality than in consumer social networks. Some key findings include the following:
* Eighty-four percent of businesses reported that social networking would help with sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues across the organization and 68% would like help with finding relevant specific information.
* Sixty-nine percent want to interact with colleagues they don’t know.
Cognition’s Semantic Map can play a key role in social networks and collaboration. I’ll write more on that soon.
The Gilbane Group, the IT analyst firm, wrote about Cognition, saying:
Technologies incorporating Cognition’s Semantic Map will be able to provide users with more accurate and complete Search capabilities, the ability to personalize and filter content, and improve the user experience by reducing the amount of irrelevant information presented.