Cognition Technologies Added to Overflight

April 6, 2010

We received a clipping about Cognition Technologies’ beefing up its management team.

Stephen J. Lief will assume responsibility for Cognition’s legal eDiscovery business. According the the Cognition announcement of dBusinessNews, “His role is to expand the company’s growth by developing partnerships with eDiscovery vendors, law firms and enterprise legal departments.” One interesting aspect of his background is that he has served as the founding editor of a number of publications, including the Legal Tech Newsletter.

Cognition develops semantic / natural language processing technology. The company describes itself this way:

Cognition’s Semantic NLP, the Company’s patented linguistic meaning-based text processing technology, is able to simultaneously deliver significantly higher levels of precision and recall than is possible with currently used NLP and Search technologies….Unlike all of the popular text reading and search in use today which utilize mathematically-based pattern-matching technology (i.e. they search for a particular word pattern based upon the user query), Cognition’s Semantic NLP understands the meaning within the context of the text it is processing. Therefore, the end benefit delivered to Cognition’s clients is simultaneously more precise and relevant understanding of their customers’ actions and intent.

Here at the goose pond, there has been an uptick in questions about semantic search. We have added Cognition to our Overflight service.

Stephen E Arnold, April 6, 2010

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under EDiscovery, Enterprise, News, Semantic, Text processing

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.