Cognition’s Semantic Map
September 22, 2008
I profiled Cognition Technologies in my April 2008 “Beyond Search” report for the Gilbane Group here. I can’t reproduce the profile in my Web log, but you can find out about Cognition by reading the information on the company’s Web site. My take on the firm was that it was working to tame the semantic beast that is prowling around many procurement team meetings. The company has released a knowledge base that “teaches computers the meanings behind words.” You can read more about the semantic map in the RawStory.com article “Computers Figuring Out What Words Mean” here. Cognition has, according to RawStory, licensed the map to LexisNexis, one of the early entrants in online for-fee content access. If you are in the market for a semantic map, check out Cognition’s new offering. My view of semantic technology is that Google seems to be ideally positioned to become the Semantic Web. I provided details behind this assertion in the 2007 report I did for BearStearns before it went down in flames earlier this year. Google has quite a few of its Googley souls laboring in the semantic vine yard. As a result, the semantic efforts of smaller companies and larger outfits like Microsoft have to make significant progress and fast. Cognition’s Web site is here.
Stephen Arnold, September 22, 2008
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