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foof – The Development of a Semantic Ad blocker
Overview A group of us, at TextWise, were working on our semantic similarity technology that allowed us to match arbitrary text documents to similar documents. One of our initial uses of the...
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Junior High Stuff
Suppose that we want to know the average body-mass index (BMI) of American teenagers. Since it is extremely difficult even to count every single teenager in the country, sampling is necessary. So we...
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Why So Many Semantic Dictionaries?
The current SemanticHacker API offers more than one semantic dictionary. Each one is crafted from a particular collection of categorized documents at a particular time. The choice of a dictionary...
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Our Roots
Semantic Signatures℠ approaches meaning of words from the perspective of their context. In the past couple of months, there has been extensive discussion here and elsewhere about how this differs from...
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Quality Assurance
When is a semantic dictionary good? It really depends on the application, since more specialized content requires more specialized dictionary dimensions. Typically, validation of a given application...
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What can you do with Semantic Signatures?
I was asked that question quite a few times when I was at the KM World and SemTech conferences. The answer is simple: use a Semantic Signature as a query against an index of Semantic Signatures to...
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Casino Royale
In any statistical information system, one can never achieve absolute certainty. Every result is a kind of bet with the possibility of losing. For Semantic Signatures, however, this is more like...
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How Many Semantic Dictionaries?
Even in the world of print, one dictionary is often not enough. Just for English, for example, we can go to standard references like Webster’s Third New International, The American Heritage Dictionary...
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ABC’s of Semantic Dictionaries
A semantic dictionary in essence consists of triples [ t , d , w ] , where t is a term, d is a semantic dimension, and w is a weight. Each triple says that the occurrence of a term t in a document...
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TextWise Launches One-Click Findability on the Salesforce App Exchange
The TextWise One-Click Findability application is now available on the Salesforce App Exchange. If you manage a contact center and/or customer self-service using Salesforce then try this app. Our...
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