Cognition’s SemanticMEDLINE.com on SemanticWeb.com
Jennifer Zaino of SemanticWeb.com interviewed Cognition’s CEO, Scott Jarus, and filed this report about Cognition’s SemanticMEDLINE.com:
“When it comes to SemanticMEDLINE, the number of cases where the terminology actually used in MEDLINE content is so very ambiguous that if you were to type in a plain English phrase for what you’re looking for, you’d get not only perhaps the right information, but thousands of others that have nothing to do with that,” says Cognition CEO Scott Jarus. “By using our technology you can more precisely hit the target and throw out irrelevant stuff.”
For example, normally a non-semantic query for “brain lobes affected by herpes encephalitis” is likely to result in volumes of data around herpes and encephalitis, without reasoning to the specific class of terms in question. At the same time, the semantic technology behind the service also ensures that individuals researching “heart attack” also can be surfaced information on myocardial infarction — a phrase they may not have searched for because they didn’t know that it was a synonym.
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