Cognition Technologies CTO and Founder, Kathleen Dahlgren, to Speak at 2007 Semantic Technology Conference.Renowned Linguist to Discuss How to Improve Search Precision and Recall with Linguistic Semantics SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif. -- Cognition Technologies, Inc., creators of CognitionSearch[TM], an evolutionary meaning-based linguistic search technology, today announced that founder and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Kathleen Dahlgren, Ph.D. will speak at the 2007 Semantic Technology In software, semantic technology encode meanings separately from data and content files, and separately from application code. This enables machines as well as people to understand, share and reason with them at execution time. Conference in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. on Tuesday, May 22. Dr. Dahlgren's presentation "Improved Precision and Recall with Linguistic Semantics," will discuss how computational linguistics computational linguistics (CL) Use of digital computers in linguistics research. The simplest examples are the use of computers to scan text and produce such aids as word lists, frequency counts, and concordances. and an understanding of word meanings can dramatically enhance the capabilities of Search technology. "This conference highlights the cutting edge of semantic technology, including recent commercialization successes -- like CognitionSearch," said Dahlgren. "Most of the leaders in the semantic Web A collaboration of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and others to provide a standard for defining data on the Web. The Semantic Web uses XML tags that conform to Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language formats (see RDF and OWL). industry will be present, which will provide an outstanding opportunity for technical interchange and to explain our meaning-based approach to Search to these industry experts." CognitionSearch dramatically increases the Precision and Recall of search results when compared to traditional Search methods and technologies. Based on computational linguistic science, CognitionSearch, a patented technology, has, in essence, "taught" the computer the meaning of virtually all of the words and phrases Words and Phrases® A multivolume set of law books published by West Group containing thousands of judicial definitions of words and phrases, arranged alphabetically, from 1658 to the present. in the common English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. . As a result, CognitionSearch "understands" both the user query and the content of the documents being searched, thereby delivering higher performance in the areas of precision and recall, the two main metrics that are commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of Search engine technology. Precision refers to a Search engine's ability to return accurate relevant results (e.g. eliminating ambiguity), while Recall describes the breadth of the universe of relevant results (e.g. synonyms). CognitionSearch can be experienced through the company's demonstration Website at www.cognitionsearch.com, which showcases the technology and demonstrates its capabilities to provide deeper and more precise Search results. Dr. Dahlgren, an adjunct professor at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , continues to stay on the forefront of linguistic research and technology, particularly as it relates to Search applications. She is the author of Cognition's seminal patent, A Natural Language Understanding System, which describes a linguistic method for controlling the explosion of potential parses. Dr. Dahlgren has also published several scholarly articles on linguistic science and is the author of Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and a post doctorate in computer science from UCLA. For more information on Cognition Technologies, visit www.cognition.com. About Cognition Technologies Cognition Technologies has developed the next evolution in Search technology. The company's patented meaning-based linguistic Search technology, CognitionSearch[TM], dramatically increases the Precision and Recall of search results. Unlike traditional Search technologies, which don't understand the meaning of query terms or results, CognitionSearch, based upon computational linguistic science, has, in essence, "taught" the computer the meanings of virtually all of the words and phrases in the common English language. |
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