Comments on: The text technologies market 3: Here’s what’s missing

By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Text mining and search, joined at the hip

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:14:27 +0000

[...] Text mining and search are powered by the same underlying technologies. For starters, there’s all the tokenization, extraction, etc. that vendors in both areas license from Inxight and its competitors. Beyond that, I think there’s a future play in integrated taxonomy management that will rearrange the text analytics market landscape. [...]

By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Should ontology management be open sourced?

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:50:04 +0000

[...] I’ve argued previously that enterprises need serious ontologies, and that this lack is holding back growth in multiple areas of text technology – search, text mining and knowledge extraction, various forms of speech recognition, and so on. The core point was: The ideal ontology would consist mainly of four aspects: [...]

By: The Monash Report»Blog Archive » How the text technology market could ignite

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:54:59 +0000

[...] Over on the Text Technologies blog, I have a series of posts arguing that the potentially huge market for enterprise text technologies is being stifled by the lack of a general-purpose ontology management system. I further argue that such a product could be constructed in such a way as to be actually usable and potentially adopted by mainstream enterprises (no, you don’t need a trained librarian to use it). So what are the chances of something like this actually working out, to an industry-changing extent? [...]

By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » The text technologies market 4: Requirements for an industry-altering ontology management system

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:35:22 +0000

[...] In previous posts I argued that what’s holding the text technology industry back is the lack of a viable ontology management system. The obvious objection to such a suggestion is: Who would use it? There is no business process for ontology management, even less than there is for “knowledge management,” and for that matter less than there was for “knowledge engineering” during the expert systems bubble of the1980s. Enterprises do not have anything like a “chief ontologist.” Indeed, that job title sounds like a joke — a touchy-feely liberal-artsy nonstarter. [...]

By: DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » SAP’s version of DBMS2

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:09:52 +0000

[...] Incidentally, the whole TREX strategy is subject to considerable doubt too. It’s not a state-of-the-art product, and they currently don’t plan to make it into one. In particular, they have a prejudice against semi-automated ontology creation, and that has clearly become a requirement for top-tier text technologies. [...]