A medical diagnosis chatbot and a scholarly analysis of clinical patient records don’t appear to be in any way related. Yet there are similarities between the two, as became apparent at this London Text Analytics Meetup (23 February).
Entitled, rather mystifyingly, a “life sciences special”, …
Pedro Domingos likes big ideas. He sets out to describe to us how computers can write their own programs. For example, there is the well-established case of handwriting recognition. This is a form of machine learning in which the computer is provided with sufficient examples …
TrendMD is (as its website states) “a content recommendation engine for scholarly publishers, which powers personalized recommendations for thousands of sites”. An interesting blog post by Matt Cockerill of TrendMD (published February 2016) claims “TrendMD’s collaborative filtering engine improves clickthrough rates 272% compared to a standard …
An excellent session of the London Text Analytics Group (March 14) contrasted two approaches to sentiment analysis: one proudly (and publicly) ditches grammar, while the other uses grammar to disambiguate content. Both approaches made ambitious claims for their software; which is the best approach?
Stephen …
Single Figure Publications is an interesting idea by William Mobley published in F1000Research. F1000Research is “a publishing platform offering immediate publication of posters, slides and articles with no editorial bias, [but with] transparent peer review” Mr Mobley proposes in his editorial that Single Figure Publications (SFP) …
David Penfold pointed out that the title of this one-day ISKO course (June 23, 2014) was ambiguous: was “making metadata work” about giving ourselves a lot of work to do as we try to sort out metadata? Or was it bringing metadata under control so …
Regular readers of this blog will notice an ongoing series of definitions of the term “ontology”. Here is another one, by Tom Gruber, dating from 2009 (in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer-Verlag, 2009).
an ontology defines a set of representational primitives with which to …
The announcement that MarkLogic is to add linked data storage to its native XML content repository (April 2013), which was then discussed by David Gorbet at the recent ML User Group London (shown in the photo) was perhaps not so surprising.
Certainly within …
Semantic web, semantic search, semantic this, semantic that – it’s enough to make a linguist or philosopher sigh with despair when the term is bandied about like this. Within specific domains such as philosophy or linguistics, there is a pretty clear and widely accepted understanding …
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