Cortex: bringing intelligence to information with a Brazilian style

Cortex which is based in Rio de Janeiro offers a very interesting solution

Xerox and Smart Search

Xerox launched a new document search software called FactSpotter which claims to go beyond the conventional keyword search and extract concepts and relationships withing the text. They plan to launch the product in the legal market.

The software like AskOnce was developed at their Grenoble research center. Few years ago I had the pleasure to meet few scientists and engineers at their Grenoble center and worked with them on a proof of concept similar to FactSpotter. They have a bunch of very smart guys there and at the time they were years ahead in their ideas on information retrieval. I would love to see what they created in FactSpotter.

Who will be acquired next in text mining?

First Clearforest was acquired by Reuters ( and if everything goes well with Reuters & Thomson merger, they will be part of Thomson ), then today Business Objects purchased Inxight.
The next candidate might be Temis.

Reuters acquires Clearforest

Finally a publisher acquired Clearforest. Reuters can do some very cool and intelligent stuff with Clearforest technology. Congratulations to Clearforest team.

A new tool from IBM to analyze unstructured text

IBM's new Unstructured Information Modeler allows analyst automatically generate and edit taxonomies from unstructured text.

RSC enriching the user experience of online research articles

The aim of the new initiative called Project Prospect is "to make the science within RSC journal articles machine-readable through semantic enrichment - the integration of metadata into text. " This is right direction for any publisher to make their online research journals more interactive and enrich them with text mining and use of ontologies. RSC has partnered with The Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics to start up this project.