+ Bjørn Olstad
Microsoft Corp, Washington
Why Today’s Search Engines are not Prepared to Drive Tomorrow’s Information Experiences
+ Dmitri Soubbotin
Semantic Engines, New York
The Variety of Goals and Applications of Semantic Approach to Search
++ Product Presentation: Northern Light
+ Diane Burley
Nstein, Canada
A Pragmatic Look at the Semantic Web
+ Frank Bandach
Eeggi, California
Semantic Coherence and a New Search Paradigm
+ Kathleen Dahlgren
Cognition Technologies, California
The Puzzle of Semantic Technologies
++ Product Presentation: Perfect Search
+ Martin Baumgärtel
bioRASI, California
+ Advanced Visualization of Search Results: More Risks, or More Chances?
+ Panel Review: Non-Text Search Technologies: Speech, Images, Video
Introduced and chaired by Susan Feldman (IDC, Massachusetts)
+ Thomas Wilde (Everyzing, Massachusetts):
How Video Gets Found: changing consumer search strategies for audio and video online and implications for content producers
+ Naveen Agnihotri (Milabra, New York):
Classifying an image with accuracy and speed: the value of parts-based representations
+ Michael Phillips (Vlingo, Massachusetts): Mobile Voice Search
+ Stephen E. Arnold
AIT, Kentucky
Google Looks Beyond the Laundry List
+ Francisco Corella and Karen Lewison
Pomcor, Oregon
Searching the Web More Effectively with Multiple Simultaneous Queries
+ Marguerite Leenhardt
Université Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle, CLA2T/SYLED, France
A Study of Evaluative Language in SMS Messages: Towards a Characterization of Opinion
+ David A. Evans
JustSystems Evans Reseach, Pennsylvania
E-Discovery: A Signature Challenge for Search
+ David Milward
Linguamatics, Cambridge, UK
Accessible Knowledge Discovery Using Agile Natural Language-Based Text Mining
+ Miles Kehoe and Mark Bennett
New Idea Engineering, California
Search Security Issues for the Enterprise
+ Sid Probstein
Attivio, Massachusetts
Intelligent Integration: Combining Search and BI Capabilities for Unified Information Access
+ David Seuss
Northern Light, Massachusetts
Using Text Analytics for the Automated Analysis and Discovery of Meaning From Large Stores of Market Intelligence
+ Jeff Catlin
Lexalytics, Massachusetts
Taking Search to the Next Stage with the Power of Text Analytics
+ Christian Reuschling and Andreas Dengel
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
DynaQ - Dynamic Queries for Document-Based, Personal Information Spaces
+ Daniel Tunkelang
Endeca, Massachusetts
Enabling the Information Seeking Process
+ Peter Noerr
MuseGlobal, California
The Underground Information Ecosystem: Connectors
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
