Here’s a snippet:
Los Angeles-based Cognition Technologies, a provider of search engine technology, claimed Tuesday that it has created the “world’s largest semantic map of the English language.” The firm said that the information is being used as part of its technology for helping to improve search results and to personalize and filter content.
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Svetlana Gladkova of Profy.com did a great write-up about Cognition today. Here are a couple of snippets:
To summarize the announcement, I think it will be no exaggeration to say that after those 23 years of research Cognition has basically taught a computer to understand the meaning of virtually all the words and phrases in the English language – and from what I have seen on their website where they demonstrate examples of how the technology performs and processes queries it is absolutely true and definitely no exaggeration.
Svetlana goes on to say:
In general, I am more than impressed by what I’ve seen and the opportunities for a whole range of various enterprise and end-user applications that could be dramatically refined using Cognition technologies. The only question that I now have is if Cognition will remain independent with its valuable technology or if some big guys (Google anyone?) will rush to acquire the company to use the technology exclusively in their products.
Read the entire Profy.com article here.
Paul Miller of ZDNet writes:
Cognition CEO, Scott Jarus, commented;
“Cognition’s extensive Semantic Map is a critical component for the next phase of the Web’s evolution, a.k.a. the Semantic Web, or Web 3.0. It gives the computer a depth of knowledge and understanding of language far beyond the current keyword and pattern-matching technologies in place.”
Moving beyond some of the stand-alone web applications shown on Cognition’s web site, a series of APIs are available in order to permit integration of the Semantic Map into third party Web and enterprise applications.
Read ZDNet’s article about Cognition here.
ReadWriteWeb.com editor, Richard MacManus, write about Cognition’s Semantic Map after talking to Cognition’s CEO, Scott Jarus:
The company says that its Semantic Map “is more than double the size of any other computational linguistic dictionary for English”.
Cognition Technologies has been working on its technology for 24 years, with a lot of input from lexicographers and linguists over that time. Because they’ve used a mix of algorithms and human input, Cognition has been able to discern relevancy, meaning, synonymy. Scott Janus [sic] told us that one of Cognition’s strengths is that it can disambiguate words and phrases, which Janus [sic] says differentiates them from the keyword and pattern matching algorithms of Google, Yahoo and others.
Read the whole article here.
Check out Cognition Technologies’ latest press release announcing more details about what we believe is the world’s largest Semantic Map:
Cognition’s Semantic Map provides software applications with an “understanding” of more than four million semantic contexts (word meanings that create contexts for specific meanings of other related words). It encompasses over 536,000 word senses (word and phrase meanings); 75,000 concept classes (or synonym classes of word meanings); 7,500 nodes in the technology’s ontology or classification scheme; and 506,000 word stems (roots of words) for the English language. This enables applications to have a more accurate and relevant understanding of content and user interaction, and can be deployed in a wide variety of markets, including Search, Web-based advertising and machine translation augmentation, to name just a few.
Read the full release here.
Dr. Dahlgren recently spoke with Marisa Peacock of CMS Wire. Ms. Peacock recently wrote about Google Suggest and wanted to know what we thought of how they do suggestions.
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Recently, we suggested that Google Suggest was an early iteration of the semantic web. Dr. Kathleen Dahlgren, founder and CTO at Cognition Technologies disagrees.
According to Dahlgren, the real semantic search is all about words and understanding of their meanings. The so-called semantic search engines like Cuil and Yahoo! Search Monkey are just “statistically semantic.”
Read the full article here.
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.
Read the whole article here.
Nova Spivak, the CEO of Twine, has written another very thoughtful article about the future of Web apps and what he calls “Webtops,” a combination of the desktop and the Web.
Read the article here.
I appreciate this article because it paints a great vision of what Cognition’s semantic technology can do in the future of Web-based applications. Integrating semantic search, plus a proactive semantic filtering to deliver more people, places and things of interest to the user, represents a great win for computer users and for Cognition, as our Semantic NLP and Semantic Map can be at the core of these new Web services.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
-TB
I just found this blog called “the health informaticist” and if you’re a medical/health researcher the author has some good info. He even gave a shout out to Cognition’s SemanticMEDLINE here. Thanks, Alan!
-TB
ReadWriteWeb.com has written a great article about web technology boosting productivity here. In the article, ReadWriteWeb’s editor, Richard MacManus, makes a very nice mention about Cognition Technologies:
“The other way startups are adding innovation to the enterprise is through new types of products that are tackling problems such as information overload. An example that we’ve been wanting to mention for a while now is Cognition Technologies, which is licensing its semantic web technologies to various organizations. Cognition’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology is being used for a number of different applications, from health to law. While not so much enterprise at this time, it’s easy to see how Cognition’s technology could be used to filter information where ever there is a large data set – which is many businesses these days.”
Read the entire ReadWriteWeb article here.