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LT Companies in Europe
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Market for Speech Technology Due to Reach $31.3 bn by 2017
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NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions Launches Integrated Platform for Media Monitoring and Sentiment Analysis
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Innovation in Translation Automation in Japan from the Recent TAUS Forum
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Moravia Worldwide Expands Linguistic Validation Services in Healthcare
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LTi News Roundup 2012/05/13
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Acrolinx Named as a Cool CM Vendor 2012 by Gartner
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Semantic analysis and visualisation software makes decisions on complex issues easy
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STATOIL chooses Transinsight semantic solution
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ESteam Wins 4-Year Linguistic Services Contract with EU Trade Marks and Design Office
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Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. : Lionbridge Reports Q1 Revenue Of $112.1 Million And Gaap Eps Of $0.03
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Market for Speech Technology Due to Reach $31.3 bn by 2017
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LT companies in the news
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Notable quotes
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“ We support semantic search. Our system enriches traditional search methods with linguistic knowledge, both in the query and the indexing process. And the Bitext system performs automated content classification or tagging of high volumes of data. The system can handle e-mail, data used in customer service environments and social content. ”
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“ Fanchinima is a perfect customer for CereProc. Their team are enthusiastic, have great ideas, easy to use software and have created vast opportunities with this application. Together we can try out the full scale of emotions in voices and add to the movie maker's available tools. ”
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“ We wanted to put the applicant at the heart of the system. ”
By Benoit Battistelli
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Language & Speech Tech Events
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eGov Conference 2012, Kristiansand Norway, September 3-6
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My Trans-analytic Voyage: Text Analytics on Both Sides of the Atlantic
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First Workshop on Data Management in the Social Semantic Web, Istanbul, 2012 August 26
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TransCLICK Wins Edison Gold for Real-time Translation App
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Acrolinx is a 'Cool Vendor' in Gartner's Content Management,2012
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eGov Conference 2012, Kristiansand Norway, September 3-6
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LT in Europe
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Spanish Version of DBPedia Launched
Explore EUROPA (19 hours, 1 minute ago) Semantic Technology , Content/Asset Management , Open Source
After months of hard work and cooperation by higher education students and experts, the Spanish version of DBpedia, also known as the Spanish Semantic Wikipedia, has finally come into being. The Spanish DBpedia contains 70 million data items that account for 80% of the information in the Spanish Wikipedia and now rivals other languages like English or French. Thanks to this community effort, it is now possible enter a query on the Spanish DBpedia page, such as ' How many Spanish bullfighters are (or have been) married to singers of traditional Spanish music (copla)?' and receive the following response: Ortega Cano with Rocío Jurado, Curro Romero with Concha Márquez Piquer, and Francisco Ribera with Isabel Pantoja. This semantic version of the Wikipedia DBpedia is a project for extracting Wikipedia data and building a semantic version of this Internet encyclopaedia. It is a community effort for extracting structured information from the Wikipedia and making it accessible on the Web. This information is generated by executing mapping documents that specify how data are mapped to the Semantic Web language (RDF) according to vocabularies commonly used by a large number of organizations. The RDF language is a World Wide Web consortium standard for data representation on the Web and is the groundwork of the Data Web (for more information, listen to Oscar Corcho explaining the initiative during a panel discussion on Spanish National Radio ).
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The Irish Spellchecker Team Behind IBM's Watson
Explore The Irish Times (May 16 2012) AI , Machine Learning , Big Data , Text Input
WHEN IBM’S computer Watson created artificial intelligence (AI) history by beating two human players last year at the US game show Jeopardy! a research team in IBM’s Dublin campus had a little celebration themselves. A core language-analysis technology that enabled Watson to understand the game show’s questions, search through millions of documents and other resources contained in its memory, and outdo the humans in producing the correct answer, came from the Irish lab. And surprisingly, the LanguageWare technology that has been honed for more than a decade by the Mulhuddart research group and is at the very cutting edge of AI, began life as a lowly spellchecker. “It’s been a long road,” says DJ McCloskey, the head of the LanguageWare group at IBM Ireland. “That piece of technology was actually developed here in February 2001.” McCloskey, who has a background in physics and mathematics and gradually developed an interest in the mathematics of information and textual analysis, says Watson’s linguistic pyrotechnics displayed on Jeopardy! developed out of the spellchecker from Lotus Notes.
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Royal Philips Electronics to Sell Speech Processing Business
Explore speechtechmag.com (May 16 2012) Consumer Electronics , M&A
Royal Philips Electronics announced it is selling its Speech Processing business to Invest Unternehmensbeteiligungs Aktiengesellschaft, a private equity fund of the Raiffeisen Banking Group Upper Austria. Financial details of the proposed transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2012. Speech Processing is part of the Lifestyle Entertainment business within the Philips Consumer Lifestyle sector. The proposed sale supports the repositioning of the sector. Speech Processing, with headquarters in Vienna and established in 1954, is a leading company in professional dictation systems. The business employs approximately 170 people worldwide.
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Benelux Universities Opt for Open Access
Explore ScienceGuide (May 16 2012) Open Data , Publishing , Public Funding
The University of Luxembourg announced that it will cooperate with the University of Liège to expand the open access offer of ORBi. Following the heated debate surrounding open access which put publisher Elsevier at the center, sentiment increasingly shifts in favor of making research freely available. Only recently, Harvard Library sent out a memo to its researchers urging them to avoid publishing in for-profit journals. Full press statement by University of Luxembourg The University has announced its intent to actively participate in the Open Access initiative, a worldwide movement aiming to make scholarly publications freely and openly available to anyone via the Internet. As defined in the Budapest (2002), Bethesda (2003) and Berlin (2003) declarations on Open Access, OA is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without any restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. Through the signature of a collaboration agreement with the University of Liège (ULg), the University of Luxembourg hopes to inspire its researchers to publish in Open Access in order to attain the success that the ULg has achieved with ORBi , its digital repository: in less than 6 years, researchers at ULg have entered over 78,700 references, 60% with full-text.
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Neodata Group (IT) Acquires Newscurve
Explore MarketWatch (May 16 2012) Semantic Technology , Ad Optimisation , Content/Asset Management , CRM
Neodata Group, a leader in ad-serving and online publisher solutions, today announced the acquisition of Newscurve, a company focused on providing web analytics to power editorial decision making. With this acquisition, Neodata Group will leverage Newscurve's technology to strengthen its cutting-edge editorial suite and move forward with the company's international expansion. Neodata Group's editorial suite for online publishers utilizes text-mining, semantic analysis and real-time web metrics to provide actionable recommendations to editors, helping them to better engage their readers by matching individuals with the content that will best suit them. While many companies solve individual elements of the optimization and recommendation problem for publishers, Neodata Group has the technology and expertise to marry optimizations for both editorial and advertising needs with its ad.agio ad-server.
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LinkedIn Co-founder joins Berlin-based EarlyBird Ventures
Explore Tech News (May 16 2012) Venture Capital
Have cash? Looking for tech talent? Go to Europe. So says Konstantin Geurike, co-founder of LinkedIn and newly minted venture partner in Berlin’s EarlyBird Ventures. EarlyBird recently raised $100 million for its forth fund, focusing on European, and in particular German startups. “I think given the amount of money available, the shortage in Silicon Valley is in technical talent,” says Geurike, “I have no doubt that some European startups with strong talent and the right startup know-how will be able to out-execute Silicon Valley companies.” One of Geurike’s new tasks at EarlyBird will be to help European companies break into the U.S. market. Geurike, who is German but studied engineering at Stanford and is based in Palo Alto, wants to support other European founders who could make a global impact.”My goal is to help portfolio companies to become a success on a global scale,” he explains.”I will probably end up working most closely with one or two founders who decide their best opportunities for global impact come from leading their business from Silicon Valley, while keeping most of the staff in Germany, where it is easier to attract and retain technical talent.”
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SDL Opens R&D Unit for Machine Translation in Europe
Explore marketwire.com (May 15 2012) Machine Learning , Machine Translation , NLP , Speech Input , Big Data , Information Management , Language Products/Services
SDL , a leading provider of Global Information Management solutions, has opened a research and development facility in Europe to expand the company's focus on machine translation. The new facility and team will be led by Bill Byrne, a leading research scientist in natural language processing and Reader in Information Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. SDL has been committed to machine translation for over a decade and the acquisition of Language Weaver in 2010 enabled the company to empower more enterprise customers and translators to leverage machine translation for their evolving business needs. Building on its commitment, this research team expansion will strategically accelerate the company's advances and continued leadership in statistical machine translation and machine learning to make it applicable within a broader ecosystem.
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Speech Recognition Helps at Denmark's Best Hospital
Explore guardian.co.uk (May 15 2012) Speech Input , Workforce Optimisation , Life Sciences/Healthcare
Sygehus Lillebaelt, rated the best hospital in Denmark for the past five years, is getting doctors out from behind desks and ensuring it has enough auxiliary staff, such as porters. The hospital has 700 beds and 4,500 full-time staff, and the main priority, according to Kenneth Seerup Joergensen, the hospital's chief information officer, is to make sure that when patients are admitted, they are scheduled in for all the procedures they need and can move around the hospital quickly and smoothly. Hence the need for porters, as much as doctors. The hospital uses IT in many different forms to support this aim of moving patients around as smoothly as possible, including the use of speech recognition by all its doctors so that information about patients can be input as quickly as possible into electronic patient records. This was not immediately popular, acknowledges Joergensen. "A lot of the doctors didn't want to use speech recognition. It was very tough. But the clinicians at Lillebaelt are supposed to be treating patients, not focusing on correct registration or work documentation," he said. "We don't want doctors sitting behind a desk and we use IT to help."
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LT Industry News
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3M Opens Access to the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary under Agreement with U.S. Departments
Explore MarketWatch (19 hours, 6 min ago) Language Resources , Information Management , Life Sciences/Healthcare , Intelligent Content Technology
3M Health Information Systems announced today it will open access to the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient data between care providers at U.S. military treatment facilities located around the world and VA Medical Centers. Access to actionable clinical information whenever and wherever care is delivered will enable safer, better coordinated, and higher quality care for the country's 32 million veterans, active service members, and their families. Healthcare industry stakeholders could also benefit, as the agreement makes the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary (3M HDD) software and terminology content openly available to hospitals, health systems, physician practices, payers, vendors, and public health agencies worldwide.
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The Semantics-driven JAMA Network for Medics Debuts on Silverchair's SCM6 Platform
Explore MarketWatch (19 hours, 9 min ago) Semantic Technology , Content/Asset Management , Life Sciences/Healthcare , Intelligent Content Technology
The American Medical Association (AMA) today introduced the JAMA Network ( www.jamanetwork.com ) on SCM6, the natively semantic online hosting platform from Silverchair Information Systems (Silverchair). The JAMA Network brings together the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), along with the AMA's nine Archives specialty journals and related resources, to create a new user-centered, semantically integrated digital portfolio. "In creating the JAMA Network, our aspiration is to seamlessly integrate the wide array of knowledge we deliver into an intuitive, user-centric experience," said Dr. Howard Bauchner, JAMA Editor in Chief. "Silverchair's SCM6 technology allows us to create precise, dynamic relationships between articles, evidence, audio and video, teaching tools, and other highly relevant information resources. The JAMA Network on SCM6 is an environment that responds to each user's needs with far more efficient knowledge discovery and presentation than has previously been possible."
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Positive results for Mind-controlled Robots
Explore Nature Publishing Group (19 hours, 50 min ago) Robotics , Life Sciences/Healthcare , Innovation & Ventures
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature reports today1. The study participants — known as Cathy and Bob — had had strokes that damaged their brain stems and left them with tetraplegia and unable to speak. Neurosurgeons implanted tiny recording devices containing almost 100 hair-thin electrodes in the motor cortex of their brains, to record the neuronal signals associated with intention to move.
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The Era of AppNation Has Arrived
Explore AllThingsD (May 16 2012) Mobile Apps , Market Research Data
some new numbers from Nielsen that chronicle the rise of “AppNation” on Android and iOS between March 2011 and March 2012. The study shows the average number of apps per smartphone has jumped from 32 apps to 41, and growth in time spent on app usage outpacing the growth in mobile Web usage on smartphones by a hefty margin. And while Nielsen’s measure of the top five apps — Facebook, YouTube, Android Market, Google Search and Gmail — remained constant, the rest of the top 50 was more of an open playing field, with more than 20 percent of the remaining spots entering as new players, and plenty of maneuvering going on.
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Technology Accessibility is Improving, but Big Challenges Lie Ahead
Explore Phys.Org (May 16 2012) Digital Agenda , Innovation & Ventures
Kel Smith, a blogger, consultant and founder of Philadelphia-based technology accessibility company Anikto, LLC, has been studying technology shifts. The idea that designers should think about accessibility because it's in their own best interests in addition to being altruistic makes a lot of sense. The cost for individuals and nonprofits to create their own web design tools and apps and has also fallen, making it easier than ever for technology for the disabled to be distributed and for communities online to get the word out about them. Another big shift is that for years, accessibility was largely focused on how the web is viewed on computers, how the online world interacts with computers and mice and text-to-speech assistive devices. But now, much of people's web browsing is moving to mobile devices like smart phones, which have much smaller screens. We're also being introduced to personal tech like Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect, which relies on gestures and movement. The improvements in accessibility are likely to benefit an increasing number of people. Smith says that the aging population of baby boomers is going to widen the definition of what constitutes a disability. That will increase the need for products that are mindful of people with limited motor skills or hand-eye coordination, those who have problems reading text that's too small or anyone who is hard-of-hearing.
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Pingar Announces Winners of Indian Big Data Development Contest
Explore seattlepi.com (May 16 2012) Lab-to-Market , Machine Learning , NLP , Big Data , Business Intelligence , Innovation , Innovation & Ventures
New Zealand company Pingar has announced the results of the Pingar Champions League, a challenge that invited over 200,000 Indian software developers to create and build innovative and disruptive Big Data applications using the Pingar API. The winning developer applications that made best use of the Pingar API were: Pradeep TK of J P Nagar, Bangalore: Health E-Governance Atul Saurabh of Waknaghat Solan, Himachal Pradesh: Centralised Library System Sandeep Singh of Chakkarpur, Gurgaon: Resume Summariser Satyam Chinna Rao of Kharvel Nagar, Bhubaneswar: Employee Database Management System
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Google Launches Its Much-awaited 'Semantic' Knowledge Graph
Explore TechCrunch (May 16 2012) NLP , Semantic Technology , Web Search , Intelligent Content Technology
Today, Google is launching one of its most ambitious and interesting updates to its search engine in recent months. Starting in a few days, you will start to see large panels with additional factual information about the topic you were searching for take over the right side of Google's search result pages. The panels are powered by what Google calls its new "Knowledge Graph" and they will serve two different functions. Google will use this space to show you a summary of relevant information about your queries (think biographical data about celebrities and historical figures, tour dates for artists, information about books, buildings, animals etc.) as well as a list of related topics. In addition, Google will now allow you to clarify what exactly you are looking for and will use these boxes for disambiguation. Thanks to this, you will soon be able to tell Google you were looking for the L.A. Kings ice hockey team and not the Sacramento Kings when you searched for 'kings.'
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Xerox Makes Book SCanning Quicker & Easier for Library Patrons and Staff
Explore Press Release Distribution (May 16 2012) OCR , Innovation & Ventures
Xerox makes scanning of books and non-circulating materials feasible with its new BookCentreTM S7141, a self-service book scanning kiosk. By using the Xerox BookCentre S7141’s easy to use touchscreen interface, library patrons and staff can scan book pages, and non-circulating books, historical records and genealogical files. Scanned images can be automatically converted into PDF, searchable PDF, Word, JPEG, TIFF and PNG file formats and sent to email, smartphones, tablets, Google Docs,fax, printers or saved to USB drives, network folders, and FTP folders to save paper and toner. Students can build searchable personal libraries by subject matter by sending scanned pages as a searchable PDF or Word file format to their iPad and store it in iBooks for sharing and collaboration. Moreover, confidential files can be automatically encrypted to protect against unauthorized access to the scanned information.
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