After Harvard Business Review named Data Scientist as “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”, jobs in the data industry have exploded. With this massive growth – there is a large need to new vendors to manage this data, new research departments on how to use it and conferences based on education and networking for … Continued
The natural language processing and computational linguistics sector has never been as dynamic and alive as it has been in the last few years. The buzz around AI has driven a significant increase in the amount of conferences and events dedicated to NLP. Whether you’re already working on NLP or related technologies, or if you’re … Continued
Thanks to projects like this year’s Panama Papers, text mining applications are gaining more visibility for their ability to draw insight from the unstructured content that makes up the majority of today’s big data. If you’re looking to go deeper into the topic, the following list of text mining books come highly recommended from the … Continued
A definition of Knowledge Management Process Most simply, “knowledge management process” is how corporations use and take advantage of data and/or information they acquire. By definition knowledge management is the process of acquiring, evaluating and utilizing information effectively in order to enable delivery of the right information at the right time, in a way that … Continued
Astronomer and astrophysicist and scientist Carl Sagan once said: “You have to know the past to understand the present.” To understand the future of computational linguistics, we’re going to follow Sagan’s sage advise and look back at its origins for hints at what lies ahead for this field of study. According to the Association for … Continued
No matter the sector or size of your business, managing risk is and will continue to be a main concern. Over the many years that we’ve been helping organizations anticipate potentially disruptive events using open source information, it’s rewarding to see a shift in how companies, analysts and executives are looking at the very important … Continued
Automatic document classification is one of the main activities for effectively managing text and unstructured information. Also referred to as categorization, clustering or text classification, automatic document classification allows you to divide and organize text based on a set of predefined categories that allow rapid, easy retrieval of information in the search phase. Automatic … Continued
This is a guest post from Nico Lavarini, Chief Scientist, who focuses on new methods and technologies to deliver better knowledge management solutions to customers as part of the R&D division of Expert System. Today, while we are seeing more and more of the big players diving into the field of semantics most of them … Continued
My role in business development at Expert System often puts me in front of many diverse audiences. Last month for example, I presented to or interacted with not only companies and potential customers, but also consulting firms and post-graduate students at local universities. The contrasts I’ve noticed between the analog world and online world that … Continued
What started many years ago as a driver for a new generation of storage devices, the topic of Big Data is turning mainstream, having made nearly every list of “trends for 2012.” Continued media attention and buzz is making what Big Data actually is more clear. The challenge is how get value from it. Compared … Continued
