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Expert System positions its Cogito system like enterprise search: this is a big, mature and crowded market but Expert System has been in business for 15 years and is focusing on key markets such as Customer Care and Intelligence.

There were no teary-eyed speeches or red carpet interviews, but the business world recently awarded its version of the Oscar to a company doing exciting things with searches: Expert System

There's a new semantic web association in town - well, not this town, but the northern Trentino Valley in Italy. Founding members of the Semantic Valley Consortium include tech players Expert System, IBM and Oracle in partnership with Italian universities, such as the Università degli Studi di Trento, with strong programs in computational linguistics.

There is real business value in incorporating semantic intelligence into an overall enterprise content management strategy.

What are the disadvantages of current mobile search capabilities? How does the semantic understanding of information address search limitations? What are the benefits of semantic processing for organizations and end-users?

Stefano Spaggiari has led his company, Expert System, to become a global leader in linguistic and semantic technology. Here, he answers "Emil's questionnaire on innovation"

J. Brooke Aker, Expert System USA CEO, showed how sequential building blocks of sentiment analysis result in superior business oriented applications.

Seth Grimes described changing attitudes toward automated sentiment analysis, and provided a recap of the recent Sentiment Analysis Symposium.

Seth Grimes described changing attitudes toward automated sentiment analysis, and provided a recap of the recent Sentiment Analysis Symposium.

The SemanticWeb Blog trolled through a few of the consumer-facing social media sentiment analytics services to see what the word on the street was about Zuckerberg's Facebook moves - and not surprisingly it's a mix between those who think he's a boy genius and others who think he's the anti-Christ for the impact his company's latest moves mean for user and data privacy.

SemanticWeb goes into more detail about not only customer sentiment on social media platforms and online, but how to track that information.  It links back to Expert System's Toyota case study, and highlights how COGITO Monitor was used to study how Toyota could have tracked its online customer sentiment more efficiently.

In what directions is sentiment analysis leading us? Quite a few interesting ones, it seems. So say some leading practitioners and thinkers - including Seth Grimes and J. Brooke Aker, Expert System USA CEO.

For sales and executive travelers, being able to find content that resides on company servers is a competitive edge. While finding the nearest copy shop, car rental location, or flight updates is magically accessible on your mobile device, finding a critical document from the office when you are on the road is another matter.

Elsewhere, one of the largest enterprise search vendors, Autonomy Corp. , and semantic search supplier Expert System have their own offerings.

In a world of 24 hour news, it's almost inevitable that something happens while you're asleep that is going to affect your next workday. That's true whether you're a journalist covering international terrorism or a corporate brand manager protecting the reputation of your company and its products. The problem is how you quickly and efficiently figure out what happened that really is relevant to you, so that you can act on that information.

The latest version of Expert System's semantic platform COGITO Focus, released today, aims to further streamline that search and analysis process.

Linking MDM and the Semantic Web

It's time to look into the crystal ball and see what might - or might not - take place in the Web 3.0 world next year. To that end, SemanticWeb.com asked some leaders in the next-generation Web space to share their own predictions around the Semantic Web, semantic technologies, linked data, social networks and all things related.

Most people think of traditional business intelligence (BI) as a collection of business-critical information from inside the enterprise.

However, consumer comments, independent reviews, and market reports online are crucial pieces of information coming from the outside that infinitely affect any organization. Locating and analyzing this unstructured data can only be carried out with a different kind of business intelligence solution - one we call semantic intelligence.

In this article, Brooke Aker, CEO Expert System US, describes how semantics contributes to Business Project Management

In Italy, Quattroruote is a leading online magazine for car aficionados and buyers. Now it's a leading-edge user of Semantic Web technology, too.

"Off and on over my years as editor, I've had a fair number of meetings with text analytics vendors (not counting IBM). These companies tried/continue to try to solve the problem of trying to extract meaning from unstructured content and present it in a useful way so that decisions can be made based on something other than gut feel, it looks like technologically at least, we're getting close to that becoming a reality." -

Bryant Duhon

Social networking can be a gold mine for a company -- if its marketers know how to access and interpret online information and convert it into an income producer.

From the world of content management the KM Promise finalist list includes Expert System.

By understanding the context in which words are used, Semantic Intelligence can help librarians and their clients find better information more quickly.

-by J. Brooke Aker

Semantic intelligence can give you a leg up on the competition by delving into, and providing understanding of, content resources that business intelligence can't. A few thoughts on what it means for you.

Brooke Aker, CEO at Expert System, a company that makes semantic software, sees additional semantics in Bing. "Semantics are clearly playing a role for the semantic dials you see on the left side [of the Reviewer listings] during the shopping experience," Aker says.

It's fitting that shortly after the world learned that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov web site that Expert System USA is delivering a new free service that lets users explore where their tax dollars are going.

Microsoft and Yahoo have put a punctuation mark on their stormy relationship over the past two years with a deal that seems anticlimactic, considering the high drama that led up to it. Still, it could mean the beginning of some serious competition for Google in the search advertising space.

The world wide web is going semantic. But what does that mean?

J. Brooke Aker, CEO of Expert System USA, Talks Semantics.

Using Expert System's COGITO engine, tagging is quick, accurate, and able to process all forms of unstructured electronic content including Web pages, documents, PDFs, social media and more.

If only U.S. automakers had listened to customer sentiment in online forums and blogs -- using the power of semantic technology -- they might not be in the fix they're in today.

"What do current and prospective text-analytics users really think of the technology, solutions, and solution providers?"

Earlier this year, Loquendo made headlines with the announcement that it was working with Expert System to provide solutions for the security market.

Expert System Integrates COGITO with Oracle Solutions.

"Most people think of traditional business intelligence (BI) as a collection of business-critical information from inside the enterprise. However, consumer comments, independent reviews, and market reports online are crucial pieces of information coming from the outside that infinitely affect any organization..."

A J. Brooke Aker Article

Semantic technology and the ability to easily and effectively access corporate data and product/services-related information

BlackBerry users can now access Expert System's Cogito semantic platform on Research In Motion's ubiquitous handheld devices.