News tagged with semantic
Recognition of anger, fear, disgust most affected in dementia
(Medical Xpress) -- A new study on emotion recognition has shown that people with frontotemporal dementia are more likely to lose the ability to recognise negative emotions, such as anger, fear and disgust, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Novel high-performance hybrid system for semantic factoring of graph databases
Imagine trying to analyze all of the English entries in Wikipedia. Now imagine you've got 20 times as much information. That's the challenge scientists face when working with gigabyte data sets. Scientists ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 20, 2011 |
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When you can recite a poem but not remember who asked you to learn it a few days earlier
Memory is not a single process but is made up of several sub-processes relying on different areas of the brain. Episodic memory, the ability to remember specific events such as what you did yesterday, is known to be vulnerable ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Web interface defines new paradigm for life science data-sharing
A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed by researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 31, 2011 |
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A semantic sommelier: Wine application highlights the power of Web 3.0
In the restaurant of the future, you will always enjoy the perfect meal with that full-bodied 2006 cabernet sauvignon, you will always know your dinner companions' favorite merlot, and you will be able to check if the sommelier's ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 23, 2011 |
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When the zebra loses its stripes
The capacity to remember that a zebra has stripes, or that a giraffe is a four-legged mammal, is known as semantic memory. It allows us to assign meaning to words and to recall general knowledge and concepts that we have ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 20, 2010 |
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New application allows scientists easy access to important government data
Government agencies around the world make billions of bits of raw data available to the public each day, but this data is often in difficult formats or so widely spread around the Web it is virtually unusable ...
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Rensselaer team shows how to analyze raw government data
Who is the White House’s most frequent visitor? Which White House staffer has the most visitors? How do smoking quit rates, state by state, relate to unemployment, taxes, and violent crimes? How do politics influence ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Cut-and-paste simplicity for computer animation
Tools developed by European researchers bring cut-and-paste simplicity to gaming and animation. Users will be able to cut-and-paste complex elements like emotion, tone of voice and facial expression, making ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Jargon-busting software bridges the knowledge gap
Conversations between students and teachers, patients and doctors, and other groups of lay people and experts, such as users and helpdesk staff, can suffer because of the difference in knowledge levels of each party in the ...
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Toward the Semantic Web
When the World Wide Web went live in 1991, it consisted of static pages of text connected to each other by hyperlinks, and that's pretty much what it remained for years. But from the outset, the Web's inventor, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Re-learning how to help professionals share their practice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Online tools developed in Europe have created completely new approaches in pedagogy -- the science of education.
May 14, 2010 |
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Software: running commentary for smarter surveillance?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cutting-edge surveillance software that automatically detects human motion, behaviour and facial expressions, generates a running commentary of what?s happening and re-enacts events virtually ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Developing web technologies to share secure information
Dr. Lalana Kagal and fellow researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a standard policy language to achieve flexible and dynamic Web security when information is shared between agencies, countries ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Researchers developing techniques to strengthen the security of information systems
As computers increasingly transfer patient medical records and other sensitive information, a group of computer scientists at Kansas State University is doing basic research that will help designers keep such information ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 05, 2010 |
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