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Ten Tips for Utilizing Natural Language Help Platforms

Angela Guess — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:00:50 +0000

Inbenta has published ten tips for incorporating a natural language online help platform into your website. The first tip has to do with chooisng the right natural language platform for your site: “Provide your website with a platform able to perform 100% natural language searches. Semantic search systems allow users to pose their questions in natural language and, unlike what happens with keyword-based search engines, the results displayed are always appropriate and relevant. If you have a website in more than one language, it is a good idea to offer online help in all the available languages, so as all users can equally benefit from this help.” continued…

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Semantic Web Jobs: ISS

Angela Guess — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:30:31 +0000

ISS is looking for a Software Engineer in Colorado Springs, CO. According to the post, “This position is in ISS’ Advanced Technology Department which focuses on researching and developing state of the art, automated analytical capabilities for use in intelligence operations. These capabilities include automated pattern discovery and recognition, advanced data fusion, behavior and normalcy modeling, text analytics, knowledge management & extraction, and novel data visualizations for various government customers including IARPA, AFRL, and ONR. Primary tasks will include designing, implementing, integrating, and testing java based software components. This will include developing thin client user interfaces with HTML5 and javascript as well as server side components within a Spring based framework.” continued…

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Tapjoy Founders Launch Karma Science

Angela Guess — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:00:15 +0000

Lizette Chapman reports, “With a dream list of investors and the goal of helping people give better gifts more quickly, social mobile commerce company Karma Science is launching Tuesday. The idea came as easily as the venture cash. Co-founders Lee Linden and Ben Lewis (who previously co-founded mobile app platform Tapjoy) wanted to do more than just post a note on Facebook when they’d find out about a friend’s birthday, engagement, new job or other major event. But actually getting to the store to buy a card or gift, finding the person’s current address and then getting it in the mail was cumbersome and didn’t always happen.” continued…

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At Facebook The Buzz Is About Mobile Priorities, Brand Timelines, And New Advertising Options

Jennifer Zaino — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:49:03 +0000

The Open Graph protocol continues to progress: Earlier this week Facebook’s Director of Developer Relations Douglas Purdy talked about its intersection with the mobile web.

According to Purdy, more people are accessing Facebook on the mobile web than from its top native apps combined, and the game is on to help developers conquer the challenges of building for that community. One of those challenges is app discovery. At the Mobile World Congress on Monday, the company announced that it’s continuing to address the first issue with plans to extend to native Android apps the ability for Facebook’s 425 million mobile app users to discover them through Open Graph connections.

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GoodRelations Publishes Free SEO Extension for xt:Commerce

Angela Guess — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:41:10 +0000

GoodRelations has published a free semantic search engine optimization extension for xt:Coomerce. According to the website, “This free extension module for xt:Commerce automatically adds rich data-markup to your shop pages so that search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing can display richer item previews in the search results (“Rich Snippets”) with information about prices, availability, delivery options, images, etc. This typically increases Click-Through-Rates (CTR) by up to 30%. At the same time, your shop will be more accessible for browser extensions and mobile applications.” continued…

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YossarianLives Promises Metaphorical Search

Angela Guess — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:00:34 +0000

YossarianLives, a new search engine named after the main character of Catch-22, offers a different breed of search: instead of providing users with answers, this search engine offers up metaphors. The article explains, “Typing ‘love’ into Google, I find the Wikipedia entry, a ‘relationship calculator’ and Lovefilm, a DVD rental service. Doing the same in YossarianLives, a new search engine due to launch this year, I might receive quite different results: ‘river’, ‘sleep’ and ‘prison’. Its creators claim YossarianLives is a metaphorical search engine, designed to spark creativity by returning disparate but conceptually related terms. So the results perhaps make sense if you accept that love can ebb and flow, provide rejuvenating comfort or just make you feel trapped.” continued…

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Semantic Web Jobs: Cornell

Angela Guess — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:30:43 +0000

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute is looking for a Text Systems Developer in Ithaca, NY. According to the post, “The Text Systems Developer will develop database-driven Web information services and Semantic Web applications that deliver judicial opinions, legislation, regulations, and other legal information and services to a global audience, including web sites, database applications, and utilities, products, and services for the Legal Information Institute, the largest non-commercial legal website on the Internet.” continued…

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Apple Plans to Pull Evi from the App Store

Angela Guess — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:30:13 +0000

It seems that Apple is getting a bit worried about the threat that Evi poses to Siri. According to a recent article, “True Knowledge, the brains behind a popular Siri alternative for iOS devices, received a note from Apple that the company will shoot down the popular 99-cent download from its mobile bazaar. According to TechCrunch, True Knowledge had a call from an Apple representative on Friday evening who informed them the company was ’going to pull Evi from the App Store,’ citing similarities with Siri.” continued…

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Early Bird Deadline for #SemTechBiz SF – Thursday, March 1

Angela Guess — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:34:06 +0000

This year’s Semantic Technology & Business Conference in San Francisco (#SemTechBiz) will feature some of the best and brightest minds in the world of semantic web technology. The conference — which will run June 3-7 at the Hilton San Francisco in Union Square — will start off strong with a welcome session presented by Tony Shaw, SemTechBiz co-chair and CEO of Dataversity, and Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts, Inc.

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ThingWorx Partners with Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator

Angela Guess — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:00:46 +0000

A recent article announces, “ThingWorx™, the provider of the first application platform for the connected world, announced its partnership today with Carnegie Mellon’s Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator (PSII). The ThingWorx platform will be used to gather and manage real-time information communicated by sensors and other connected devices tied to physical infrastructure. ThingWorx joins IBM and a host of innovative companies that are providing a range of technologies and tools to regional universities and institutions in an effort to blend traditional physical-infrastructure, such as transportation systems and buildings, with cyber-infrastructure- computers, networks, and sensors.” continued…

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Semantic Web Jobs: Kforce

Angela Guess — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:30:38 +0000

Kforce is looking for a Mid Level Developer for a client in Fairfax, VA. Responsibilities of the position include the following: “Develop applications and services following standards and common software practices. Designing, coding and debugging applications in various software languages. Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis. Graphical user interface design. Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation. Support, maintain and document software functionality. Integrate software with existing systems.” continued…

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Webcast: Supercharge Magnolia CMS with Semantic Technology by salsaDev

Eric Franzon — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:34:26 +0000

On Wednesday, February 28, 2012, enterprise search company, SalsaDev, and CMS platform Magnolia-CMS will broadcast a live Webinar (Registration required) discussing how SalsaDev adds semantic capability to the Magnolia CMS. According to the organizers, “Software that understands content makes a CMS significantly more valuable. Due to automated reasoning, no more manual work will be needed, for example by content authors to display related content. Website visitors will benefit from context-aware search that yields the best results from vast amounts of content. By combining Magnolia CMS with salsaDev’s technology, users save time and maximize the value of content.”

Participants will learn:

How to quickly install and configure the searchBox solution for Magnolia CMS
How to customize the searchBox integration and ensure high performance
Typical scenarios and the business benefits of semantic search technology

The hosts continue, “This Webinar is extremely useful for CMS developers of all levels, as well as decision makers interested in deploying a semantic CMS.”

Details

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 PM – 5.00 PM Central European Time (CET)
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST)

NOTE: Eric Franzon will participate in a Q&A panel following the demo.

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New Paper: Directly Mapping Relational Databases to RDF & OWL

Angela Guess — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:30:16 +0000

Juan F. Sequeda, Marcelo Arenas, and Daniel P. Miranker have written a new paper entitled Directly Mapping Relational Databases to RDF and OWL. According to the abstract, “Mapping relational databases to RDF is a fundamental problem for the development of the Semantic Web. We present a solution, inspired by draft methods defined by the W3C where relational databases are directly mapped to RDF and OWL. Given a relational database schema and its integrity constraints, this direct mapping produces an OWL ontology, which, provides the basis for generating RDF instances. The semantics of this mapping is defined using Datalog.” continued…

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White House Creates Blueprint for Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights

Angela Guess — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:30:10 +0000

The Obama administration has announced a blueprint for a consumer privacy bill of rights. The President’s cover letter to the proposal stated, “Never has privacy been more important than today, in the age of the Internet, the World Wide Web and smart phones. In just the last decade, the Internet has enabled a renewal of direct political engagement by citizens around the globe and an explosion of commerce and innovation creating jobs of the future. Much of this innovation is enabled by novel uses of personal information. So, it is incumbent on us to do what we have done throughout history: apply our timeless privacy values to the new technologies and circumstances of our times.” continued…

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RDB2RDF Specifications Published by W3C

Angela Guess — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:00:21 +0000

The W3C recently announced, “The RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Candidate Recommendation documents that help to bring relational database information to the Semantic Web: R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language and A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF.”

The announcement continues, “The former describes R2RML, a language for expressing customized mappings from relational databases to RDF datasets. Such mappings provide the ability to view existing relational data in the RDF data model, expressed in a structure and target vocabulary of the mapping author’s choice. The latter document defines a direct mapping from relational data to RDF. Implementations are invited. continued…

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