Zoogma Targets Buried Treasure
April 18, 2010
CMSwire recently reported that “Zoogma, An Automated Intelligence-Gathering and Analysis Platform” is attempting to track all the unstructured content lurking in the corners of every enterprise content management system. Much like a detective, it does this by detecting and deciphering clues to make the data findable. A number of companies are entering this “intelligence” sector, including Fetch Technologies and Kapow Tech. Using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Zoogma collects information from web scrapers, databases and other repositories, stores that information, analyzes it and delivers it through a web services interface. According to Alex Emmermann, general manager of Cormine Intelligent Data, “While keywords help you find what you know, Zoogma is specifically geared towards finding what you don’t know.” Zoogma reportedly can plug in to many enterprise content management systems, but specific names have not been released. Currently there is little feedback to indicate whether Zoogma works as claimed; only time will tell.
Melody K. Smith, April 18, 2010
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3M and NLP
April 18, 2010
Natural Language Processing (NLP) seems to be the hot topic of late. More and more technology companies are utilizing this in their software packages. 3M has released the next generation computer-assisted coding for both inpatient and outpatient coding. You can see 3M’s next generation NLP system for coding patient intake forms by downloading the demo from this link. With claims of improving productivity and decreasing costs, 3M shares a product study that produced immediate results. A small controlled study measured the improvement a hospital might see when they install 3M Codefinder Computer-Assisted Edition for inpatient coding. Within a single afternoon—and with only one hour of training—coders were able to reduce the time spent coding records by nearly 30 percent. The time savings became even greater as the complexity of the medical records increased. Impressive claims, check it out for yourself.
Melody K. Smith, April 18, 2010
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Arnold Keynote about Google Technology Excites Young PhDs
April 18, 2010
On April 15, 2010, Stephen E Arnold addressed an audience of 250 people at Slovenia’s annual technology conference. Here’s a picture of Mr. Arnold pointing out that Lady Gaga had one of the most popular videos on YouTube.com.
The other picture shows Mr. Arnold cornered by a large group of PhD students who were disappointed that Mr. Arnold did not make the PowerPoint presentation available on this ArnoldIT.com, which allegedly provides one click access to his public presentations.
Mr. Arnold eluded these young wizards and sought refuge in Trieste, Italy, prior to returning to rural Kentucky on April 16, 2010. He enjoyed his visit to Slovenia, saying, “I get the same reaction to my lectures wherever I go.”
Filed by Donald Anderson, April 18, 2010
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Explaining Artificial Intelligence to Everyone
April 18, 2010
Science Daily ran a story on April 1, 2010. I was not sure if this story was a joke or whether it was serious. I will let you decide. The title was “Grand Unified Theory of AI: New Approach Unites Two Prevailing but Often Opposed Strains in Artificial-Intelligence Research.” The write up explains the Math Club approach; that is, the use of numerical methods, which are now popular. The article describes the rules based approach, which requires a human to write the rules. The core of the story is a pitch for the “Church system”. Science Daily explains:
“With probabilistic reasoning, you get all that structure for free,” Goodman says. A Church program that has never encountered a flightless bird might, initially, set the probability that any bird can fly at 99.99 percent. But as it learns more about cassowaries — and penguins, and caged and broken-winged robins — it revises its probabilities accordingly. Ultimately, the probabilities represent all the conceptual distinctions that early AI researchers would have had to code by hand. But the system learns those distinctions itself, over time — much the way humans learn new concepts and revise old ones. “What’s brilliant about this is that it allows you to build a cognitive model in a fantastically much more straightforward and transparent way than you could do before,” says Nick Chater, a professor of cognitive and decision sciences at University College London. “You can imagine all the things that a human knows, and trying to list those would just be an endless task, and it might even be an infinite task. But the magic trick is saying, ‘No, no, just tell me a few things,’ and then the brain — or in this case the Church system, hopefully somewhat analogous to the way the mind does it — can churn out, using its probabilistic calculation, all the consequences and inferences. And also, when you give the system new information, it can figure out the consequences of that.”
We talked about this write up at lunch and decided that we would invite readers to read the article and draw a conclusion about a “unified theory of artificial intelligence.”
Stephen E Arnold, April 19, 2010
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Baidu Hires Googler
April 17, 2010
Short honk: The China – Google dust up will, like the ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, take some time to settle. I read the short item “Google Loses Chinese Exec to Baidu” and realized that this type of job change might be pretty savvy. For the job changers, it makes clear that the future for that person is not with Google. For the Chinese government, it makes clear that an employee has some common sense with regard to earning a living. Can China pull Google’s Chinese talent? I don’t know, but I know that avoiding hassles may have some charm for Google’s in country employees and maybe for some Chinese citizens working for Google outside of China may be a factor at some point. Bureaucracies can be tricky to navigate in some nation states.
Stephen E Arnold, April 17, 2010
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Idiomax Translation Software
April 17, 2010
Document translation is not a cheap endeavor, but something that almost all organizations need to do at one time or another. IdiomaX has released a translation software package that is efficient and affordable; two things that are always a plus.
Their software suite consists of five products: IdiomaX Translator, IdiomaX Office Translator, IdiomaX E-Mail Translator, IdiomaX Web Translator, and IdiomaX Translation Assistant. All the products can translate in English, Spanish, French and Italian and is downloadable for only $149.95. Even better, they offer a mobile application so you are always prepared regardless of your location. The Nokia smartphone translator package can be downloaded for $59.95.
In specialized businesses, such as healthcare or information technology, there are complex terminologies that are often difficult to understand, even in your first language. The IdiomaX Translation Suite includes specialized medical and computing dictionaries to help navigate those waters as well.
Melody K. Smith, April 17, 2010
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DomainWhiz Identifies Potential Domain Names
April 17, 2010
Need a nifty domain name? You can try DomainWhiz.net’s new search utility. I learned about the system in “DomainWhiz Introduces Doman Name Search Tool.” The idea is that the system makes it easier to locate potential domain names. The write up said:
DomainWhiz’ domain name search technology is supported by Natural Language Processing technology that has the ability to generate alternative names that are either synonymous with or highly relevant to keywords entered by an end user. The technology goes one step further by checking the availability of each alternative name, and notes its availability, expiration date or whether it is up for sale. The service is available now in English and the alternative names that come up are SEO friendly.
You can give the system a test drive at http://domainwhiz.net/. When you locate a suitable name, a click on the “pricing” links sends you to GoDaddy.com.
DomainWhiz says:
DomainWhiz combines the power of machine learning techniques, large natural language databases, and manually crafted linguistic rules to search the vast space of Semantic Network and extract only those domains that the end user intends to search.
Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) offered similar capabilities to licensees prior to the firm’s acquisition by Google. Other domain registrars offer similar functions; for example, Register.com. If my memory serves me, Oingo / Applied Semantics offered a similar service via its licensees before the company was gobbled by Google and lashed to advertising tasks.
Stephen E Arnold, April 17, 2010
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FoxTrot Professional Search
April 17, 2010
CTM Development has released FoxTrot Professional Search 2.6, a 64-bit performance and feature-rich update to their popular document indexing and retrieval solution for Mac OS X. This release is perfect for anyone who works with files saved for future reference. As reported by macnn.com in “CTM Development Launches FoxTrot Professional Search 2.6” FoxTrot Professional Search helps locate documents and their contents using multiple categorizations of search results, ranked by relevance. This product is popular with legal (law firm and courts) and media (newsrooms researchers, ad agencies and editors) due to the precision tools it offers for finding content directly within PDF, HTML, word processing, e-mail and multimedia content and metadata. FoxTrot Professional Search 2.6 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later and is a free update for current licensed owners. More information is available from the CTMDev.com Web site.
Melody K. Smith, April 17, 2010
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A-Life NLP Renew Medical Automation Deal
April 17, 2010
A-Life Medical, Inc., a leading provider of computer-assisted coding (CAC) products and services to the healthcare industry, announced today the renewal of an extensive contract with Associated Billing Services, Inc. “Associated Billing Services Renews Extensive Agreement with A-Life Medical” The computerized coding and workflow management product that leverages A-Life’s proprietary and patented technology, LifeCode ® appears to be the source of reaping the cost-savings benefits and efficiencies key to a successful business.
According to Associated Billing Services’ vice president, Matthew Frick:
“We have built a long-standing relationship with A-Life based on the benefits of the company’s patented NLP technology. Its accuracy rate and ability to appropriately code quickly, seamlessly and efficiently, has helped us to significantly reduce turnaround time, labor costs and accounts receivable days of services outstanding.”
Using NLP technology, A-Life deciphers electronic transcribed patient encounters via the Internet through its data center, which are then appropriately coded for reimbursement purposes.
Melody K. Smith, April 17, 2010
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Do Flawed Decisions Flow from Research Methods?
April 16, 2010
“PRWeek/PR Newswire Media Survey Finds Digital Divide Between Journalists and Bloggers” presented some interesting data about online research. For me,the key points were expressed in this passage:
Among the total respondents, the use of blogs and social networks for research increased significantly in 2010 as compared to 2009. However this spike appears to be skewed by online magazine/news reporters and bloggers. While 91 percent of bloggers and 68 percent of online reporters “always” or “sometimes” use blogs for research, only 35 percent of newspaper and 38 percent of print magazine journalists followed suit. This divergence was also seen when using social networks for research. Overall, 33 percent of respondents indicated using such news sources, but 48 percent of bloggers used social networks, compared to just 31 percent of newspaper reporters and 27 percent of print magazine reporters.
What troubles me is that there seems to be little or no interest in traditional library research. Couple these data with the information in “Armed With Information, People Make Poor Choices, Study Finds” and the roots of some of the ungovernable situations may be poking through the cheerleading for “going digital”.
Stephen E Arnold, April 15, 2010
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