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What is a good classifier? (4/4)
This is the fourth and final post on the characteristics of a good content based classifier. In previous posts we have focused on presentation of statistical results and comparison of the Skilja Classifier to a plain vanilla naïve Bayes classifier in Recall-Precision...
Classification and Context
This is a situation that probably sounds familiar to you: You meet a person and you are sure that you know him/her well and that you have already seen him or her many times – but you cannot remember who it is. More precisely – you cannot put the person into a context....
The Meaning of Words
A famous poem by German poet Christian Morgenstern starts with the line that probably everybody has heard once: “Die Möwen sehen alle aus, als ob sie Emma hießen” which is in the translation by Karl F. Ross: “The seagulls by their looks suggest that...
What is a good classifier? (3/4)
In recent articles about classifier quality we have focused on the overall statistical results. For this we have used either the precision-recall graph or the inverted precision graph. While these are very good tools to predict the overall quality of a classification...
Auto-Classification Technologies and RFID Smart Docs
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cláudio Chaves from TCG Brazil Recent advances in the auto-classification technologies – as described in this blog – have provided a substantial manual labor reduction for several companies related to physical...
What is a good classifier? (2/4)
In our small series about classification quality we have used the precision-recall graph to show the difference between a very good and a so-so classifier in a recent post that you can find here. This graphical representation is very common and easy to understand....
OCR on Historical Documents
Skilja is proud to announce that we have received a grant from the European Union supporting a research and development project to improve OCR on historical documents. The grant is provided through the Eurostars program of the European Union. This program supports...
Visual Classifiers From Random Images
Now this is an interesting experiment that leads us very close to the touch point between machine classification and human imaginations. As described in previous posts, auto-classification algorithms are using features that are extracted from the objects to be...
Visiting Docville – October 2014
Now already a tradition we just had the fifth meeting of Docville in Brussels this week. Docville is a networking & exchange initiative for executives from the international Information Management ecosystem (Capture, ECM, BPM, BI and BPO),...
Intelligence Everywhere: Top 10 Technology Trends 2015
Gartner has just published their outlook on the strategic technical developments that will be important for enterprises in the next three years. Well – it seems that we at Skilja are at the right place with what we are doing. We have known this for a long time and our...
What is a good classifier? (1/4)
Auto-Classification is able to assign categories and hence meaning to documents with an unprecedented speed and quality. The technology for auto-classification has been developed over the last 15 years – from the first tentative rule based systems to elaborate...
Read Faster with Text Streaming
An interesting new approach to human document understanding is presented by the Boston based startup company „Spritz“. They believe that human understanding of text (i.e. reading) is slowed down by the eye-movement on the text. Therefore they have developed a new...
2014 – Keep Going
Hello everybody, It is a New Year and I want give all our great readers our best wishes for this year 2014! Our small company, Skilja, is now going into its third year already – growing and doing well. Providing excellence in software and consulting is our goal and...
Practical Semantics
As you have seen in previous posts I was pointing out the difficulty for software to really understand English language mainly lies in the ambiguity of words and their related meanings. The technology to resolve this difficulty is called semantic analysis. I recently...
Complex Predicates
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Prof. Dr. Jürgen Lenerz from University of Cologne As we have seen (read the previous post here), predicates such as be red, be sleeping, snores, be a horse etc. may be conceived of as functions from individuals in...
Understanding the Weather
If you live in Europe you will agree with me that the weather this spring has been the worst since a long time. In fact it was freezing and snowing all through March right into April. And it has not been much better on the East coast in the U.S. We experienced some...
Visiting AIIM 2013
AIIM is the community that provides education, research, and best practices on information management and collaboration. This year the AIIM community met in New Orleans, the city of music and French Creole architecture. New Orleans is also called the “Big...
Why Semantics is Important for Classification
Many automatic classification systems out there today use a pure bag of words approach for finding relevant features that determine the meaning of a document. Few are using correlation and collocation – to account for the fact that words have a different meaning based...
What is the truth?
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Prof. Dr. Jürgen Lenerz from University of Cologne Statements are propositions which are true with respect to a certain possible world, the discourse world. We have already discussed the concept of the “world’” in a...
How to Create a Mind: Ray Kurzweil and Semantic
I have super great respect for Ray Kurzweil as an inventor. After all his inventions are the basis of work. He built the first scanner, invented OCR and contributed a lot to artificial intelligence. But in his philosophical and scientific writing he sometimes...