Micheal Dumiak reports, “In a quiet lane in Belarus’s capital, across from playgrounds and tower-block apartments, sits an old textile factory with a courtyard mural of a smiling Vladimir Lenin. Upstairs is something unexpected—60 programmers and artificial-intelligence researchers implementing algorithms and building databases for a sprawling semantic-search platform. This is what Ken Klapproth calls the ‘factory’ for the Invention Machine, a 20-year-old software firm in Boston (recently acquired by Colorado-based IHS) that specializes in natural-language processing. Klapproth leads product marketing for Invention Machine and is a solid supporter of Minsk’s IT scene.” Read more

(openPR) – Minsk, Belarus – The Eurovision Song Contest held in Oslo in 2010 has drawn the attention of EffectiveSoft’s research and semantic laboratory. Being inspired by the joyful and inflammatory atmosphere of the Eurovision Song Contest, semantic experts of EffectiveSoft company applied their scientific knowledge and skills to accomplish a semantic analysis of lyrics presented by the Eurovision contestants…