This week we feature articles from Victor Morgante, and Stephen Marche.

Additional reading comes from Kathrin Blagec, Adriano Barbosa-Silva, Simon Ott & Matthias Samwald, Ethan Batraski, and Fabio Chiusano.

News comes from Adobe, Canto, Umbraco, and Snowflake.

Reminder: If you’ve missed any recent issues you can see them here.

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Opinion / Analysis

What is a relational knowledge graph?

We recently pointed to a high-level description of relational knowledge graphs based on a presentation by Bob Muglia. Victor Morgante, a practitioner and business analyst, provides broader context and a more detailed explanation, including an illustration of “an actual schema variously morphing between a classical relational view (Entity Relationship Diagram) and a graph view (Property Graph Schema)”. (7 min).

https://towardsdatascience.com/what-is-a-relational-knowledge-graph-bb747b27ff3f

Machine sentience is overrated

LaMDA is no more conscious than a pocket calculator. …the fantasy of machine sentience has once again been allowed to dominate the artificial-intelligence conversation when much stranger and richer, and more potentially dangerous and beautiful, developments are under way.

Stephen Marche after speaking with engineers working on Google’s latest and far more powerful language model, PaLM. PaLM, can “perform reasoning” to answer a math problem only with “chain-of-thought prompting”, but the engineers don’t know how or why. (6 min).

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness/661329/

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More Reading…

• Handy for AI researchers… A curated, ontology-based, large-scale knowledge graph of artificial intelligence tasks and benchmarks via Nature
• And for NLP researchers… 10 surveys about popular NLP areas via NLPlanet
• VC making the case… The new category of cloud database services emerging via Ethan Batraski

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Content technology news

Adobe announces new Adobe Analytics services

Adobe Analytics delivering a single workspace for brands to unify data and insights across all media types including streaming.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/adobe-announces-new-adobe-analytics-services/

Canto unveils Media Delivery Cloud

Enables customers to directly connect images from their Canto library to their website, e-commerce platform and other content distribution platforms.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/canto-unveils-media-delivery-cloud/

Snowflake launches Unistore

New workload expands capabilities and delivers a modern approach to manage transactional and analytical data together in a single platform.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/snowflake-launches-unistore/

Umbraco teams with Microsoft

Umbraco Teams with Microsoft to Extend Composable DXP-based Content Management Systems Through Azure Marketplace.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/umbraco-teams-with-microsoft/

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This week we feature articles from Lauren Hinkel, and Michihiro Yasunaga, Jure Leskovec, & Percy Liang.

Additional reading comes from Antoine Craske, Petr Korab, and Ben Lorica & Kenn So.

News comes from Crafter, Siteimprove, MongoDB, and Foxit.

Reminder: If you’ve missed any recent issues you can see them here.

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Opinion / Analysis

LinkBERT: improving language model training with document link

A challenge with most common LM pretraining strategies is that they model a single document at a time. That is, one would split a text corpus into a list of documents and draw training instances for LMs from each document independently. Treating each document independently may pose limitations because documents often have rich dependencies with each other… Models that train without these dependencies may fail to capture knowledge or facts that are spread across multiple documents.

Michihiro Yasunaga, Jure Leskovec, & Percy Liang describe LinkBERT, a pretaining method that builds a graph of multiple documents with link information to address this limitation. Links to the paper and code are included. (9 min).

http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/linkbert/

Hallucinating to better text translation

Moving from Stanford to MIT and UC San Diego… Lauren Hinkel describes another machine learning enhancement method focused on improving language translation by using a transformer that “hallucinates” an image based on text that is then used for multimodal translation. (4 min).

https://news.mit.edu/2022/hallucinating-better-text-translation-0606

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More Reading…

• Case study: Airbnb’s microservices architecture journey to quality engineering via QE Unit
• Trends and opportunities in Distributed computing for AI: a status report via Gradient Flow
• Necessary skill… Text network analysis: theory and practice via Towards Data Science

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Content technology news

CrafterCMS releases version 4.0S

Includes new content management and authoring capabilities that enable composability of all types of content-rich digital experiences.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/craftercms-releases-version-4-0/

MongoDB unveils vision for a developer data platform

Providing development teams with a wider set of use cases, servicing more of the data lifecycle, optimizing for modern architectures…
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/mongodb-unveils-vision-for-a-developer-data-platform/

Siteimprove launches Prepublish

Siteimprove Prepublish technology to make it easier for marketing departments to optimize content within their DXP or CMS.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/siteimprove-launches-prepublish/

Foxit integrates PDF Editor with Microsoft Teams and Office 365

Teams and Office 365 Integration to allow delivery of PDF documents with increased speed and collaboration.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/foxit-integrates-pdf-editor-with-microsoft-teams-and-office-365/

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This week we feature a paper by Michael E. Deagen, Jamie P. McCusker, Tolulomo Fateye, Samuel Stouffer, L. Cate Brinson, Deborah L. McGuinness & Linda S. Schadler, and an article by Adam Argyle.

Additional reading comes from Maria Stasimioti, Jon Udell, and Colin Morris.

News comes from Stardog, Algolia, MariaDB & MindsDB, and Access Innovations & SiteFusion.

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Opinion / Analysis

FAIR and interactive data graphics from a scientific knowledge graph

Very interesting paper. H/T: @storyneedle (22 min)

Graph databases capture richly linked domain knowledge by integrating heterogeneous data and metadata into a unified representation. Here, we present the use of bespoke, interactive data graphics (bar charts, scatter plots, etc.) for visual exploration of a knowledge graph. By modeling a chart as a set of metadata that describes semantic context (SPARQL query) separately from visual context (Vega-Lite specification), we leverage the high-level, declarative nature of the SPARQL and Vega-Lite grammars to concisely specify web-based, interactive data graphics synchronized to a knowledge graph.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01352-z

State of CSS 2022

Browser developers have been working together to reduce incompatibilities that drive web developers, as well as marketers, crazy. Adam Argyle reports on progress made and what is coming. His article is a text version of his presentation at Google IO 2022, which you can also watch. A good resource. (29 min – but handy TOC links to each feature).

https://web.dev/state-of-css-2022/

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More Reading…

• From the Association for Computational Linguistics The best natural language processing papers from ACL 2022 via Slator
• Good question… What happened to simple, basic web hosting? via Jon Udell
• Kind of fun… In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia via Colin Morris

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Content technology news

Stardog updates enterprise knowledge graph platform

Stardog 8.0’s new capabilities eliminate the need for specialized skills when querying a reusable, flexible semantic data layer.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/stardog-updates-enterprise-knowledge-graph-platform/

Access Innovations and SiteFusion ProConsult to deliver content management solutions

SiteFusion’s content management system for publishers will leverage the taxonomy management and semantic metadata enrichment capabilities of Data Harmony.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/access-innovations-and-sitefusion-proconsult-to-deliver-content-management-solutions/

Algolia launches additional AI models in Algolia Recommend

Coupled with Algolia’s indexing capabilities, customers are able to immediately put relevant and up to date content into motion for end-users.
https://gilbane.com/2022/06/algolia-launches-additional-ai-models-in-algolia-recommend/

MariaDB and MindsDB collaborate on machine learning

Collaboration focus to make in-database machine learning predictions more accessible to all business users with MariaDB SkySQL.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/mariadb-and-mindsdb-collaborate-on-machine-learning/

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This week we feature an article from Michael Andrews.

Additional reading comes from Piethein Strengholt, Cade Metz, and Petr Korab.

News comes from Ontotext, Contentstack, Syncro Soft, SimInsights, and Deepnote.

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Opinion / Analysis

Your markup is showing

“Markup is supposed to make content better. So why does it frequently make content worse?” Michael Andrews reminds us that even simple markup, such as Markdown, needs to be used carefully and comes with a cognitive cost. He also provides some all to familiar examples of markup mistakes that authors dread and publishers would prefer to avoid. (5 min)

https://storyneedle.com/your-markup-is-showing/

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More Reading…

• Useful. Six scenarios and approaches… Data Mesh: Topologies and domain granularity via Towards Data Science (10 min)
• A how to… N-gram word clouds, chord diagrams, and packed bubble charts… Advanced visualisations for text data analysis via Towards Data Science (5 min)
• High level accessible summary of interesting recent paper in Nature (link included)… Qubit teleportation between non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network via New York Times (6 min)
• Well-organized collection of all the news at Microsoft Build 2022 Book of News via Microsoft (36 min but with a handy TOC)

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Content technology news

Ontotext gets growth funding to meet demand for graph technology

Ontotext will accelerate its international expansion and go-to-market operations, focusing on the US market.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/ontotext-gets-growth-funding-to-meet-demand-for-graph-technology/

SimInsights launches no-code XR authoring platform

HyperSkill authoring with block-based coding 3D simulation software for virtual and augmented reality and AI powered training.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/siminsights-launches-no-code-xr-authoring-platform/

Contentstack launches no-code Automation Hub

Automation Hub addresses the technical complexity and operational challenges that composable architectures can introduce.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/contentstack-launches-no-code-automation-hub/

Deepnote data notebook comes out of beta

Deepnote is a new data science notebook for data teams to improve collaboration, modern data stack integration, and productivity.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/deepnote-data-notebook-comes-out-of-beta/

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen Content Fusion version 5.0

The collaboration platform is designed to improve any documentation review process. New features include a new Search side-view, UI updates…
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/syncro-soft-releases-oxygen-content-fusion-version-5-0/

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This week we feature articles from Pete Warden, and Kovid Rathee.

Additional reading comes from Ng Wai Foong, Sean Hollister, Rand Fishkin, and Kevin Indig.

News comes from Franz, Finch Computing, Komprise, and MerlinOne.

Reminder: If you’ve missed any recent issues you can find them here.

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Opinion / Analysis

How should you protect your machine learning models and IP?

Pete Warden gets a lot of questions about this “usually… from executives, and digging deeper it became clear they were most worried about competitors gaining an advantage from what we released.”. It’s a good question and Warden provides good advice on what to do, and explains why it may be less of a problem than you think. (5 min)

https://petewarden.com/2022/05/08/how-should-you-protect-your-machine-learning-models-and-ip/

The landscape of time series databases

The growth of time series databases is not what it was, but it’s mostly because other types of databases have been incorporating more support for time based data. Kovid Rathee provides a useful update. (7 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/the-landscape-of-timeseries-databases-95cd7f7ee64d

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More Reading…

• 20 open-source single speaker multilingual speech datasets via Towards Data Science
• Not a joke!… Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery via The Verge
• Google I/O 2022 – Ambient computing is getting real via Kevin Indig
• For those of you tracking… SparkToro & Followerwonk joint Twitter analysis: 19.42% of active accounts are fake or spam via SparkToro

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Content technology news

Relationship extraction with co-reference added to Finch for Text

Relationship extraction allows users to decipher relationships between entities. Co-reference resolves words like “her”, “the leader” appearing in text.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/relationship-extraction-with-co-reference-added-to-finch-for-text/

Franz releases AllegroGraph 7.3

AllegroGraph 7.3 extends GraphQL to Knowledge Graph Developers and Enterprise Data Fabrics with enhanced GraphQL query capabilities.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/franz-releases-allegrograph-7-3/

Komprise automates unstructured data discovery with Smart Data Workflows

To discover relevant file and object data across cloud, edge and on-premises datacenters and feed data in native format to ML tools and data lakes.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/komprise-automates-unstructured-data-iscovery-with-smart-data-workflows/

MerlinOne brings visual search to video for digital asset management

Just by describing a scene. NOMAD for Video from MerlinOne searches your collection and takes you there with no additional effort required.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/merlinone-brings-visual-search-to-video-for-digital-asset-management/

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This week we feature articles from Richard MacManus, and Chris Nielsen.

Additional reading comes from Alan Morrison, Mikkel Dengsøe, and Isaac Caswell & Ankur Bapna.

News comes from Google Translate, Acquia, Cloudflare, and Elastic Search.

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Opinion / Analysis

Does the fediverse point to our social media future?

Well, perhaps. There is certainly much that is appealing about the open source, standards-based, decentralized approach to social and web publishing and it’s most popular app, Mastodon. Richard MacManus is cautiously optimistic and correctly judicious regarding the timeframe in his answer (6 min).

https://thenewstack.io/the-fediverse-points-to-our-social-media-future-post-musk/

I replaced my native iOS app with a cross-platform web app and no one noticed

Chris Nielsen was shocked that performance was not an issue when he built a web app version of his animation-heavy iOS app. He was also pleasantly surprised to find the web app caused fewer bugs than the native version. Web apps have caught up to native apps in many/most ways, so if you are still maintaining three code bases you should take another look as Nielsen did (8 min).

https://javascript.plainenglish.io/i-replaced-my-native-ios-app-with-a-cross-platform-web-app-and-no-one-noticed-1653901ce244

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More Reading…

• What is the relation between Semantic Web and AI? Not new, but a fantastic answer (h/t @kurt_cagle) via Alan Morrison
• More details on the Google Translate news referenced below…  Unlocking zero-resource machine translation to support new languages in google translate via Google AI Blog
• Short and helpful… Data team structure: embedded or centralised? via Mikkel Dengsøe

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Content technology news

Google Translate learns 24 new languages

These are the first languages we’ve added using Zero-Shot Machine Translation, where a machine learning model only sees monolingual text.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/google-translate-learns-24-new-languages/

Cloudflare and open source community to create new API standards

Developers will be able to write and run code and easily transfer it–between Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Node.js seamlessly.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/cloudflare-and-open-source-community-to-create-new-api-standards/

Acquia expands FedRAMP Authority to Operate

Adds Acquia Site Studio, the latest versions of Acquia Search with Solr 7 and Acquia Platform Email capabilities to the FedRAMP boundary.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/acquia-expands-fedramp-authority-to-operate/

Elastic updates Elastic search platform

Enhanced capabilities include support for Elasticsearch query syntax, prebuilt Enterprise Search tools, out-of-the-box tuning and analytics tools…
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/elastic-updates-elastic-search-platform/

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This week we feature articles from Tiernan Ray, and Cristiana de Azevedo von Stosch & Abhishek Singh.

Additional reading comes from Scott Brinker, Julia Angwin & Joris van Hoboken, Janko Roettgers, and Thomas Claburn.

News comes from the FIDO Alliance, Apple, Google and Microsoft, Sinequa, TeamViewer & SAP, and AppTek.

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Opinion / Analysis

From the modern data stack to knowledge graphs

Tiernan Ray summarizes Microsoft and Snowflake veteran Bob Muglia’s keynote at last weeks Knowledge Graph Conference. Muglia’s presentation is about “relational knowledge graphs” that can model both data and and business rules. He is currently on the board of Relational AI, a startup building such a product. (4 min). Also see Has SQL gone too far?.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-veteran-bob-muglia-relational-knowledge-graphs-will-transform-business/

Why graph-modeling frameworks are the future of unsupervised learning

If you have too many features for the number of samples or want to remove co-linear features to improve your model, there are many techniques that can be applied in a supervised learning setting — Decision Trees, Random Forest, etc.

Until now, there are very few approaches that can identify feature importance in an unsupervised learning problem.

Cristiana de Azevedo von Stosch and Abhishek Singh propose a method for “feature selection based on feature importance determination [that] will reduce the processing time of any modeling approach.”. (7 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/why-graph-modeling-frameworks-are-the-future-of-unsupervised-learning-2092b089caff

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More Reading…

• 32 illustrated martech stacks entered in The Stackies via chiefmartec
• Apple is a massive force in AR. It’s also been holding the technology back the market needs iOS support for WebXR via Protocol
• Really useful discussion… Understanding the Digital Services Act via The Markup
• Not obvious this helps… Google starts testing fenced frames to guard its Privacy Sandbox via The Register

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Content technology news

Apple, Google and Microsoft commit to expanded support for FIDO standard

The new capability will allow websites and apps to offer consistent, secure, and easy passwordless sign-ins to consumers across devices and platforms.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-to-expanded-support-for-fido-standard/

Sinequa Search Cloud available through Azure Marketplace

Customers can now fulfill license subscriptions for Sinequa under their existing MACC, allowing them to decrement pre-committed Azure spend.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/sinequa-search-cloud-available-through-azure-marketplace/

TeamViewer and SAP to digitalize warehouse operations with augmented reality

TeamViewer Frontline Augmented Reality (AR) solutions now enhance SAP Extended Warehouse Management with AR-based workflows.
https://gilbane.com/2022/05/teamviewer-and-sap-to-digitalize-warehouse-operations-with-augmented-reality/

AppTek launches new metadata-informed neural machine translation system

Provides enterprises and translation professionals with customization options for multi-domain, multi-dialect, multi-genre translations.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/apptek-launches-new-metadata-informed-neural-machine-translation-system/

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This week we feature articles from Anil Dash and Jordan Volz.

Additional reading comes from Jason Cohen, Cassie Kozyrkov, and Terry Crowley.

News comes from Expert .ai, Searchable .ai, Microsoft, and Hyland.

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Opinion / Analysis

A web renaissance

I am as hopeful as Anil Dash about the possibility of something like a web renaissance and don’t disagree with what he says in his post (5 min). I built my own web site and have managed it since the nineties, and the ability to control my own content and presence was absolutely worth the effort. But I have seen countless businesses and individuals struggle with their own efforts, and remain cautious about the rate of adoption. Creating and maintaining a web presence today is already dramatically easier, and new tools will continue to make it less of a burden for developers and non-developers alike. But it needs to be simple enough to share space with your day job.

https://medium.com/@anildash/a-web-renaissance-3a1b16c898a6

Who’s who in the modern data stack ecosystem

We’ve covered the “modern data stack”a few times in the last year but Jordan Volz has a new “Spring 2022 Edition of the Modern Data Stack Ecosystem” (20 min) that is worth a read.

https://medium.com/@jordan_volz/whos-who-in-the-modern-data-stack-ecosystem-spring-2022-c45854653dc4

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More Reading…

• Nostalgic for the older versions of Word?… Where does bloat come from? via Terry Crowley
• Oldie but goodie… Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works via a smart bear blog
• Shifting your mindset from amateur to professional data analyst, the journey #2, via Towards Data Science

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Content technology news

Microsoft announces updates to Microsoft 365

To improve accessibility, support flexible workstyles, streamline tasks, and more ways to make your voice heard, and hybrid work easier.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/microsoft-announces-updates-to-microsoft-365/

Expert.ai updates AI-based natural language processing platform

Designed for natural language AI, the platform combines machine learning and rule-based symbolic comprehension with an authoring environment.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/expert-ai-updates-ai-based-natural-language-processing-platform/

Searchable.ai announces Constellation

Their unified data platform that brings together all the data and information that knowledge workers need, in one place.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/searchable-ai-announces-constellation/

Hyland expands infrastructure to deploy OnBase and Brainware customers on AWS

New deployments for OnBase and Brainware cloud customers and cloud migration environments in North America on the appropriate AWS Region.
https://gilbane.com/2022/04/hyland-expands-infrastructure-to-deploy-onbase-and-brainware-customers-on-aws/

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