Applied Semantics Gets Press Gig
19 November 2001
Applied Semantics, a provider of tools and applications for information management and retrieval, is upgrading its support to the International Press Telecommunications Council's (IPTC) subject codes to its Auto-Categorizer enterprise software product.
This enhancement, according to the company, enables electronic publishers to automate the process of tagging news articles with topic labels for easy routing, archiving, syndication, and retrieval by reporters, researchers, librarians, and fact-checkers, labor-intensive processes.
Augmenting Applied Semantics'
Auto-Categorizer with IPTC's subject codes, a three-level hierarchical taxonomy comprising over 900 categories, also enables
electronic publishers to integrate news content easily with other document collections
for presentation in intranet portals.
News aggregators as well as corporate and institutional libraries can also benefit by
categorizing multiple, disparate
inbound news streams against this uniform standard taxonomy.
Applied Semantics' Auto-Categorizer tool accepts XML input and responds with XML
output, providing compatibility with any XML format, but particularly with NewsML and the News Industry Text Format (NITF) two additional standards established by the 50-plus member IPTC organization.
The IPTC developed the subject codes in support of these two standard XML schemas, both of which provide for use of topic tags.
Applied Semantics' proprietary technology, CIRCA, is based on an ontology that consists of millions of words, meanings, and their conceptual relationships to other meanings in the human language.
This technology provides businesses with the power to generate metadata and taxonomies, categorize content, summarize and search for information, to realize optimal value from their knowledge assets.
Developed by a team of leading computational linguists, artificial intelligence experts
www.appliedsemantics.com

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