SCALA - semanticweb.com http://semanticweb.com The Voice of Semantic Web Business Copyright 2013 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:30:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Vital.AI: A Semantic Platform for Big Data-Driven Apps Yesterday The Semantic Web Blog discussed how personalized mobile assistance came up on the lists of a bright future in the eyes of semantic web experts (see here). Sharing that vision is the team at Vital.AI, the NYC-startup founded by Marc Hadfield.  Its Thrive.AI app, also a contender at SemTech’s Startup Competition, is a personalized semantic shopping agent for the iPad, but the underlying Vital.AI platform on which it is built provides an integrated suite of components for a variety of knowledge-centric, intelligence-rich, Big Data-driven applications.

The e-commerce agent, Hadfield told attendees at SemTech in San Francisco last week, was the company’s own foray into figuring out what it needed to add to the platform to make it easier to build apps that bring semantic technologies and Big Data together.

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]]> Jennifer Zaino http://semanticweb.com/vital-ai-a-semantic-platform-for-big-data-driven-apps_b29907#disqus_thread http://semanticweb.com/vital-ai-a-semantic-platform-for-big-data-driven-apps_b29907 http://semanticweb.com/?p=29907 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:25:51 +0000 New Word Graph API Takes Wordnik From Fun and Funky Apps to Some Serious Business Services You may know Wordnik from subscribing to its Word of the Day service (by the way, today that word is eloign). Or perhaps you know it from some of the apps that have used its API – such as Freebase WordNet Explorer, or one of the many mobile ones that let users access direct features of the system through their smart phones.

Now comes something new on the API front: Word Graph is the latest result of some three years of algorithm development around analyzing the digital text that Wordnik has collected from partners, to understand the relationship between words in order to derive meaning. Word Graph matches content based on digital text from partners who need to understand more of what their content says and is, and to help them and their services make decisions based on that understanding.

In that respect, it’s taking Wordnik’s API services closer to helping accomplish business requirements, rather than drive neat B-to-C apps, from crossword puzzles to jumble games to pronunciation voice services, where its APIs have currently mostly been employed.

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]]> Jennifer Zaino http://semanticweb.com/new-word-graph-api-takes-wordnik-from-fun-and-funky-apps-to-some-serious-business-services_b21422#disqus_thread http://semanticweb.com/new-word-graph-api-takes-wordnik-from-fun-and-funky-apps-to-some-serious-business-services_b21422 http://semanticweb.com/?p=21422 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:39:54 +0000