Tweet Yesterday Google announced a very interesting resource with 175M short, unique text strings that were used to refer to one of 7.6M Wikipedia articles. This should be very useful for...
May 19, 2012
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12:02 PM
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Tweet The Google’s Knowledge Graph showed up for me this morning — it’s been slowly rolling out since the announcement on Wednesday. It builds lots of research from human language technology...
May 19, 2012
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10:43 AM
Tweet Google announced its “knowledge graph” today and describes it as “an intelligent model—in geek-speak, a ‘graph’ — that understands real-world entities and their relationships to one...
May 16, 2012
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11:54 PM
Tweet Google’s Webmasters blog has a post on rich snippets and structured data. While this is from Google, Microsoft’s Bing search engine has a very similar approach. Snippets are “the few...
April 19, 2012
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1:22 AM
Tweet Wikidata is a new project that “aims to create a free knowledge base about the world that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.” The project was started by the German...
March 30, 2012
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12:36 PM
Tweet The Wall Street Journal’s Amir Efrati has an article (Google Gives Search a Refresh) and blog post (What Google’s Search Changes Might Mean for You) on upcoming changes Google to its search...
March 15, 2012
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7:31 AM
Tweet Link Data is a nicely done Web site to help people produce RDF data from simple excel spreadsheets. It appears to be the work of researchers at the RIKEN BASE group at the RIKEN...
March 7, 2012
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9:59 AM
Tweet The Linked Open Vocabularies site collects metadata and statistics about the RDFS and OWL vocbularies used in the Linked Open Data cloud. It looks like an interesting and useful...
March 4, 2012
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4:14 PM
Tweet The Register has an article, Cray gets graphic with big data, on Cray’s uRiKA computer that is designed for analyzing large graphs. The specialized machine uses Crays’s Threadstorm...
March 2, 2012
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9:05 AM
Tweet Congratulations to UMBC Ebiquity alumna Cynthia Parr for being selected to present at the 2012 TED conference on the Encyclopedia of Life project. Cyndy was a research professor at UMBC...
March 1, 2012
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9:13 AM