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Written by Sid Probstein
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
Last year my colleague Jonathan Young wrote a blog post Untangling the Semantic Web: Finding Threads of Gold, in which he noted that "Although the semantic web sounds like a panacea in theory, it does not have a great track record in practice."
At least one reader took this to mean we don't find the core problem interesting. Nothing could be further from the truth! A plurality of our customers and partners place great value on understanding and discovering entities and the relationships between them. Jonathan goes on to explain this later in his post - "...in designing [AIE] we picked a few of the golden threads from the semantic web and combined them with a number of techniques which have been shown to improve the search experience". Some of the relevant capabilities include:
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Dictionary and statistical named entity extraction in multiple languages
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Regular expression extraction of any pattern, including common natural language templates like "Sid Probstein is the CTO of Attivio"; you can combine named entity discovery with other search, e.g., find the term "Attivio" near a person entity, etc...
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Relationship modeling, e.g., friend-of-a-friend, using our query-side JOIN() operator.
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Written by Sid Probstein
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Tuesday, 19 May 2009 |
This past week I attended the Enterprise Search Summit (ESS) in New York City. It was, as usual, a terrific conference, filled with interesting people and ideas. One particular highlight was the SearchDev.org dinner, hosted by New Idea Engineering (and sponsored by Attivio). I particularly enjoyed catching up with Nick Patience at the 451 Group; you can read his write-up of ESS here .
I was also very pleased to present on the topic of "Unified Information Access: Combining Search and BI Capabilities for Better Business Decisions" as part of the "Search Tools at Work" breakout. I focused primarily on our Baseball Demo , our FacetFinder and forthcoming image search module. Time ran out before I could present a variety of interesting case studies (featuring our customers), including quite remarkable work we are doing to support search with complex permissions, in real time, without using a database... more on that in a future post.
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Monday, 27 April 2009 |
Network World Podcast
Enterprise search is being touted as a great way to retain knowledge and gain new insights of collaboration, but along with the benefits come some hidden security risks. Keith Shaw talks with Sid Probstein, CTO of Attivio, about five different security risks associated with enterprise search, and how IT can address those security issues. (15:38)
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009 |
 Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate our relationships, reflect on how we can improve them and, in some cases, build entirely new connections. In the spirit of the day, we thought we'd have a little fun and turn to the not-so-well-known, but incredibly sage Agnes, patroness of Active Intelligence, to answer some of the vexing questions we've heard from people who are looking to improve their information access relationships.
Our advice seekers include Still Searching, who expects more fulfillment from a search engine, Jaded Explorer, who asks if unified information access is ready for prime time, and Ready to Drive, who needs help improving the value of an eMedia website.
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Written by Sid Probstein
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Monday, 09 February 2009 |
On Wednesday, February 4th, my colleague Andrew McKay and I had the privilege of speaking at the first Enterprise Search Forum Toyko at the International House of Japan in Roppongi. Attivio was co-sponsor of the event, which was hosted by our partner Basis Technology.
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