Computer Scientists Work To Strengthen Online Security Nov 10, 2009
Computers would have use natural language processing tools to synthesize understandable questions and analyze the answers for accuracy. Yao is proposing further studies to determine the practicality of the new approach and the best way to implement it. (Science Daily)
Kaiser wins $54M in NIH-stimulus grants Oct 13, 2009
Other grants also will be used to study how to use natural language processing to more accurately extract data from the electronic medical record. The stimulus package, officially the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, includes $8. (Sacramento Business Journal, CA)
White House Challenges Translation Industry to Innovate Oct 2, 2009
"There's a lot of pent-up intellectual capacity that could really improve natural language processing," he says. For global companies, the benefits of better, cheaper translation services are obvious. (BusinessWeek)
Powering the search for answers Sep 10, 2009
It takes the computation engine and curated data sets of Mathematica and adds natural language processing ... However, the natural language processing engine that interprets the questions needs work ... They knew the natural language processing engine needed work but also that they needed more data. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Microsoft Research and Bill Gates Bring Historic Physics Lectures to Web Jul 15, 2009
Researchers focus on more than 55 areas of computing and collaborate with leading academic, government and industry researchers to advance the state of the art in such areas as graphics, speech recognition, user-interface research, natural language processing, programming tools and methodologies, operating systems and networking, and the mathematical sciences. Microsoft Research currently employs more than 850 people in six labs located in Redmond, Wash. (PR Newswire)
IT Management Blog Jul 5, 2009
The service has used heavy-duty natural language processing to generate tags and now adds the ability to go beyond news categories to include more "human-like" tags to mix and match with semantic ones. Imagine, for example, OpenCalais extracting from an article about Porsche and BMW and a race between two makes of these cars, and perhaps the location of the race. (IntranetJournal)
Lovitt: New sites target niches Jun 16, 2009
In a nutshell, the site uses natural language processing (NLP) to parse reviews both for subject matter and sentiment. (A spotless room, for example, is different than a merely clean one. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Wolfram search engine goes live May 18, 2009
Wolfram Alpha uses natural language processing to understand queries. A search engine hailed as a significant rival to web giant Google has gone live to the public. (BBC News -- Technology)
Can Social Media Buzz Make American Idol Predictions? May 2, 2009
This proprietary Web-based solution is built on advanced data aggregation and analytics techniques, including natural language processing (NLP) to provide a wide range of critical and relevant reports, flexible tools, user-defined metrics, and even alerts for managing emerging issues. About Biz360. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Web tool 'as important as Google' May 1, 2009
The new tool uses a technique known as natural language processing to return answers ... Dr Katz is the head of the Start project, a natural language processing tool that claims to be "the world's first web-based question answering system" ... Web companies have also harnessed natural language processing. (BBC News -- Technology)
IBM, Mayo Form Open-source Health IT Consortium Apr 3, 2009
Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open-source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information. The , announced Thursday, will focus on technology to allow for large-scale data aggregation, allowing doctors to mine medical records in their specialties to find similar cases to study before making difficult diagnoses or before determining treatment. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Mayo Clinic and IBM host medical language initiative Apr 2, 2009
and ARMONK, NY -- Biomedical informatics researchers at Mayo Clinic and IBM today launched a Web site for the newly founded Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium ... "The recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act promises to accelerate the adoption of electronic medical records," said Dan Pelino, IBM's general manager, Global Healthcare "Because the success of such reform rides on delivering interconnected and intelligent information to health care professionals... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
