Semantic Technology Available Now::Interview with Tim Musgrove TextDigger.com

Today’s podcast is in continuation of the media coverage of the SES conference that took place in San Jose, CA last week.

In an attempt to uncover the proverbial “golden nugget” for Web professionals, I placed a call for interview to a number of notable speakers and exhibitors participating. To that end, I connected up by telephone with Tim Musgrove PhD, founder and CEO of TextDigger.com.

In this interview, Dr. Musgrove shares a few insights on a session that he sat in on the entitled “Don’t call it a Come Back Semantic Technology and Search.” The panelist consisted of titans of industry such as Google, Bing, Ask, YeildBuild, Yahoo and RadarNetworks. Dana Todd the session moderator and the panelist talked about semantic recommendations that can increase site optimization and landing page rankings.

In this three minute interview, Dr. Musgrove addresses my request for a golden nugget by introducing a Semantic Technology product that he’s developed at TextDigger.com. It’s available today and according to independent research is been proven to work to improve rankings and search relevance. It’s also available now for a free download at TextDigger.com.

Dr. Musgrove has agreed to participate in future interviews where we will talk about the case studies that came out of the session, how the product works in depth and how Web professionals can benefit.

Check out the full three minute interview on today’s Web Pro Minute website.

A Full Transcript of this podcast will be available in seventy two hours.

More information on Semantic Technology

According to Wikipedia Semantic Technology is:

In software, semantic technology encodes meanings separately from data and content files, and separately from application code.

This enables machines as well as people to understand, share and reason with them at execution time. With semantic technologies, adding, changing and implementing new relationships or interconnecting programs in a different way can be just as simple as changing the external model that these programs share.

With traditional information technology, on the other hand, meanings and relationships must be predefined and “hard wired” into data formats and the application program code at design time. This means that when something changes, previously unexchanged information needs to be exchanged, or two programs need to interoperate in a new way, the humans must get involved.

Off-line, the parties must define and communicate between them the knowledge needed to make the change, and then recode the data structures and program logic to accommodate it, and then apply these changes to the database and the application. Then, and only then, can they implement the changes.

Semantic technologies are “meaning-centered.” They include tools for:

* autorecognition of topics and concepts,
* information and meaning extraction, and
* categorization.

Given a question, semantic technologies can directly search topics, concepts, associations that span a vast number of sources.

Semantic technologies provide an abstraction layer above existing IT technologies that enables bridging and interconnection of data, content, and processes. Second, from the portal perspective, semantic technologies can be thought of as a new level of depth that provides far more intelligent, capable, relevant, and responsive interaction than with information technologies alone.

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