tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225583478392426548.post-20334251573963561742008-06-09T04:01:00.000-07:002008-06-09T04:06:00.286-07:00May 2008 Digest<ul><br /><li><a href="http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/wordlogic-bank-help-build-%E2%80%98thinking%E2%80%99-machines-16567.html">Article on the Open Ontology Repository (OOR)</a>.<br />The OOR is an initiative from the <a href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008_Communique">Ontolog Community</a>. If worked out well, this could be an influential project, especially if combined with web services.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=861880">SezWho Acquires Tejit</a><br />- Tejit's semantic-analysis engine, which uses <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing" title="Natural language processing">Natural Language Processing</a> (NLP) and semantic matching technology to identify topics, sentiments and entities present in web content.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://newsblaze.com/story/2008052805031800006.pnw/newsblaze/HIGHTECH/High-Tech.html">Dow Jones Introduces Enhanced Business Semantic Management Tool, Synaptica</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semtech_making_the_web_searchable_searchmonkey.php">ReadWriteWeb on YaHoo! SearchMonkey</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/search/lucene-search-gets-some-new-functionality-002692.php">Apache Lucene</a><br />integrates Teragram Linguistic Tools.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://agraph.franz.com/allegrograph/">Franz inc.</a><br />unveils the AllegroGraph 64-bit RDFStore.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.google.com/health">Google Health goes public beta</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=AF13BA1D-F28A-4E24-B9B7-0C83D52C61E8">Nuance launches web-based BI tool for clinical use</a><br /><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/">Yahoo SearchMonkey</a><br />opens it's doors to developers.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=147">TopQuadrant hires Jeremy Carroll as Chief Product Architect</a><br />Jeremy Carroll is the lead architect of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena_%28framework%29">Jena Toolkit</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9940887-80.html">Microsoft may show interest in Powerset</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.powerset.com/">Powerset is Live</a><br /></li><br /><li>Following Yahoo & Digg, <a href="http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=255816">myspace</a><br />plans to implement RDFa/Microformats (hardly the semantic web, but nevertheless).<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2008/05/peter-mika-talks-about-searchmonkey-and-the-semantic-technology-conference.php">Talis Podcast - Peter Mika</a><br />of Yahoo! Research, covering <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/preview.html">SearchMonkey</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>& semantics.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/browser/ontologies">New website for browsing ontologies among which the basic formal ontology (BFO)</a><br /></li><br /></ul>David Decraenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08536691873586041676noreply@blogger.com