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MetaDolce Technologies, Inc., provider of Semantic and Natural Language Search technologies and products, announced the introduction of MetaDolce OmniSearch a Natural Language Platform for Semantic Website Search. MetaDolce's OmniSearch enables Web properties to accept and respond to Natural Language queries from website visitors via an embedded search bar. The MetaDolce OmniSearch website search experience is enhanced by offering a Natural Language interface that allows site visitors to obtain real answers to Natural Language questions, "eliminating and replacing thousands of irrelevant search results". MetaDolce OmniSearch results, are drawn from both the structured and unstructured data on a given website. Designed to enhance or replace existing website search solutions, MetaDolce OmniSearch immediately provides websites with better visitor retention, conversion, and CPM ratios. MetaDolce OmniSearch and MetaDolce Focus represent a suite of Semantic and Natural Language Processing products from MetaDolce Technologies, Inc. http://www.metadolce.com

Clarabridge announced a partnership with Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC). This partnership brings together technologies in unstructured text mining/analytics and enterprise data warehousing. The complementary capabilities of Clarabridge and Teradata help business users to integrate structured and unstructured information in a single data warehouse for a global view of their quantitative and qualitative customer analysis and improved customer experiences. Clarabridge's enterprise-deployed Content Mining Platform monitors and captures content from various company "listening posts" across and beyond the enterprise, including call center notes, surveys and web 2.0 sites, forums and newsgroups. Qualitative insights about customer sentiment are automatically transformed into quantitative intelligence. Marrying Clarabridge's text mining and Teradata's data warehousing capabilities helps companies to continually monitor and improve the customer experience. Teradata offers a suite of software, hardware and professional consulting services. http://www.clarabridge.com, http://www.teradata.com

Recommind and Open Text announced a strategic alliance that combines Recommind's Insite Legal Hold application with Open Text's ECM Suite. The integration adds early case assessment capabilities to the ECM Suite and allows enterprises to automatically identify, explore, collect and preserve data directly from within the ECM Suite. The combined Open Text/Recommind platform is designed to give enterprises the accuracy, speed and effectiveness necessary to comply with government regulations, prepare and protect themselves from impending litigation and efficiently store and preserve data. Open Text announced in a separate release that it will offer the solution as Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment powered by Recommind. Using Recommind's conceptual search and auto-categorization technology, Insite Legal Hold also automatically identifies and collects any newly created information which may be relevant to a given legal hold, while automatically organizing all information by more than 20 parameters like concept group, file type, language and key phrase, supporting instant analysis of data prior to a hold being executed. http://www.opentext.com, http://www.recommind.com

Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTC:CLXS) (BULLETIN BOARD: CLXS), a developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced the formal launch of the Reviewer Finder product, an application which identifies the best reviewers based on their research profile. By using the Collexis Fingerprint technology, a submitted grant proposal or submitted scientific manuscript is analyzed and the resulting document Fingerprint is compared against more than 1.8 million expert Fingerprints - simultaneously checking for conflicts of interest based on co-authorship and organizational affiliation. The Reviewer Finder tool is an enhancement to the suite of Collexis grant management applications. These services provide funding organizations with portfolio analysis tools to assist in identifying gaps and trends and track the success of their funding by an institution, department or researcher. http://www.collexis.com/

Teragram, a division of SAS and a provider of multilingual natural language processing technologies, announced the launch of Semantic Term Manager v. 3.0 (STM v. 3.0), software that helps knowledge workers to better classify, organize and manage mission-critical information and maintain ontologies in large enterprise content repositories and databases. Featuring tighter integration with Teragram's taxonomy management product, TK240, STM v. 3.0 enables knowledge workers to automatically tag documents according to defined taxonomies, manage vast amounts of metadata across repositories and databases, and create and manage enterprise authority lists and build relationships between them. This, in turn, simplifies the enterprise search and retrieval process. This enhanced version of STM can now handle more than one hierarchy by integrating across several large data sets. For example, a corporate librarian can generate lists such as company names, product offerings and subsidiary relationships with TK240 to manage them as standalone data files or combine this information while researching other scenarios or performing targeted searches. STM v. 3.0 offers versioning capability that allows users to save different versions of the data they administer, and allows them to also go back and work on it after it has been saved. STM v. 3.0 also provides tailored ontology support, which means that data files can now be incrementally exported to XML and imported internally across the enterprise. http://www.teragram.com/

Quaero announced it has partnered with Clarabridge to enhance its Customer Experience Management practice and provide clients with a solution for turning previously unusable customer feedback into actionable business intelligence. Quaero's Customer Experience Management (CEM) practice helps organizations manage and optimize customer interactions across channels. Through the use of Clarabridge's solution, Quaero CEM experts can collect and analyze intelligence from all of the varied sources of feedback available inside and beyond an organization's four walls and integrate it with quantitative information to make recommendations for enhancing the customer experience and increasing satisfaction and retention. Clarabridge helps enterprises better understand their customers by providing a software platform to listen, interpret, and respond to their customers' true emotions, desires and behavior. Customer feedback is captured and analyzed from a variety of feedback channels as well as the growing number of indirect sources that provide consumer opinions, such as call center notes, qualitative survey feedback, Web 2.0 content, online consumer forums, email, social networking sites and even customer warranty forms. Clarabridge's solution then categorizes all of this text-based customer feedback, determines associated sentiments tied to the categories and presents this information in various reporting formats used by company executives to identify areas of the business where improvements can be made. http://www.quaero.com http://www.clarabridge.com

Nstein Technologies Inc. announced the release of Nstein Technologies' WCM 4.0. The new release is designed to increase editorial productivity by providing tools for the creation and management of complex sites and microsites. The new rollout offers a new, role-based interface for editorial teams featuring: Multi-site/multi-channel content management; Out-of-the-box conversion and importation of content from XML; Role-based configurable editorial dashboards that mirror physical workflows; Automatic search/association of assets; On-the-fly content association, Real-time semantically generated tags & metadata; Faceted Search: Advanced XML site search, topic clustering, most-rated, most viewed stories; and Search Engine Optimization Toolkit: Keyword density, friendly URLs, optimized HTML structure. WCM's user interface allows content experts to manage content from creation to distribution. It has built-in tagging and metadata management allowing association and bundling of content. WCM's open design allows integration with virtually any new type of content modules (Facebook, Twitter, forums, blogs, wikis) and other content management systems (Editorial systems, ECM, repositories). WCM 4.0 integrates seamlessly with both TME and Nstein's DAM (Digital Asset Management System) to allow on-the-fly semantic tagging and semantic association of stories. Additionally, the open architecture allows integration with third party tools, other content management systems and repositories. http://www.nstein.com

Semantra announced general availability of Semantra 2.5 for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The business intelligence and analytics tool allows users to enter simple commands in a familiar search box to quickly retrieve information from enterprise databases. Semantra 2.5 includes several enhancements: Ubiquitous Data Access: Seamlessly searches all CRM sales, services and marketing data in addition to customized tables and fields; Summary Analytics: Aggregates and summarizes data according to specific search parameters; Embedded in Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Launches Semantra within the CRM application via single sign on or launched separately from the desktop browser; Results Link Back to CRM: Gives users instant access to all CRM record detail directly from a result set; Linking to Public Data: Plug-ins facilitate easy linking from result sets to public data including maps, professional networking sites and business reports; Improved Comprehension: Enhanced "Did you mean" capability provides helpful suggestions when inquiry is mistyped or not understood; Customized Result Sets: "Hide/Show Data" function allows users to modify results for better decision making. Semantra 2.5 was specifically created to extend the value of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, enabling users to make ad hoc inquiries to retrieve precise results from any Microsoft Dynamics CRM database. http://www.semantra.com

Access Innovations, Inc. and Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, a provider of Semantic Technology Solutions, have announced a joint marketing agreement. Together, the two companies bring together machine automated indexing and a thesaurus tool for an indexing solution to meet increasing global demand across various industries. Today's announcement formalizes and launches joint efforts by Access Innovations and Dow Jones. Under the agreement, Access Innovations and Dow Jones will strengthen the quality of indexing and indexing productivity for a host of clientele, including database producers, online and web-based directory publishers, corporate libraries, web portals, and corporations and associations with large intranets. This strategic move creates value by improving time to revenue realization. Existing and new clients can experience clear and quantifiable increases in knowledge worker production output, as well as lowered staff and operating costs from those productivity gains. A collective MAI indexing and Synaptica thesaurus solution can also help organizations increase their Search engine capabilities and effectiveness. With tens of millions of business users involved worldwide in knowledge production, the market opportunity to help address business challenges, and enhance operational efficiency, profitability and competitiveness is considerable.
http://www.accessinn.com, http://www.dataharmony.com, http://www.newscorp.com

Cognition Technologies announced the release of the "largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language". The scope of Cognition's Semantic Map includes over 10 million semantic connections that are comprised of semantic contexts, meaning representations, taxonomy and word meaning distinctions. Technologies incorporating Cognition's Semantic Map will be able to provide users with more accurate and complete Search capabilities, the ability to personalize and filter content, and improve the user experience by reducing the amount of irrelevant information presented. Cognition Technologies' lexical resources encode semantic, morphological and syntactic information about the words contained within documents and their relationships to each other. These resources were created, codified and reviewed by lexicographers and linguists over a span of 24 years. Cognition's Semantic Map provides software applications with an "understanding" of more than four million semantic contexts (word meanings that create contexts for specific meanings of other related words). It encompasses over 536,000 word senses (word and phrase meanings); 75,000 concept classes (or synonym classes of word meanings); 7,500 nodes in the technology's ontology or classification scheme; and 506,000 word stems (roots of words) for the English language. This enables applications to have a more accurate and relevant understanding of content and user interaction, and can be deployed in a wide variety of markets, including Search, Web-based advertising and machine translation augmentation. Integration APIs are available. http://www.cognition.com