Going beyond simple broader/narrower relations: what hierarchical relations are possible?
Why multilingual knowledge should lie at the heart of your language operations strategy
How can the use of ontologies lead to smarter, more advanced chatbots?
Time to get technical. How did we add a SPARQL endpoint to the Coreon Multilingual Knowledge System?
With a SPARQL endpoint added to the Coreon MLK system, your organization can deploy a common knowledge infrastructure.
When configuring a repository you will define a set of properties. They consist of a key, such as Definition, and a data type, such as -text- or -picklist. They help you to achieve consistency when editing concepts and terms.
An automated head-start can make handling your terminology data faster and more efficient.
It’s a huge issue for the translation industry, but GDPR needn’t be a hindrance to the way your company works.
Neural Machine Translation has changed the MT landscape for good, so why is the industry so slow to catch up?
Machine Learning is a very useful tool to have, but how do we deal with its constraints?
It’s time to let potential customers shop in their own language!
The 2018 DTT-Symposion focused on how concept maps can revolutionize the way terminology data is used and managed.
A controlled vocabulary means a semantic gateway that can maximize the vast potential of the Internet of Things.
MT represents a big threat to the future of LSPs, so how can they adapt their services to stay ahead?
Summer 2017 was a busy one, with several events focusing on how terminology can be leveraged to improve business processes.
Multilingual Knowledge Systems can deliver the required semantic and linguistic intelligence for the communication of IoT devices.
Book and light bulb of business concept In multiple blog posts we have mentioned Multilingual Knowledge Systems (MKS) and how it is a core component in several applications, both monolingual and multilingual. An MKS is, in fact, a multilingual Enterprise Taxonomy. We have explained what an MKS is and now we want to advise…
AI and Natural Language Processing propel each other, because most of human knowledge and interaction is textual. What is textual is globally always multilingual.
A multilingual knowledge system (MKS) combines language (such as multilingual terminology) with knowledge (a graph that connects the concepts via relations). The most common type of relation is a hierarchical one, also known as a broader/narrower, or parent/child relation. Such a hierarchically structured concept system is often also referred to as a taxonomy. Many taxonomies…
Gartner recently published its annual report, “Hype Cycle For Emerging Technologies 2016”, which for the first time includes Enterprise Taxonomy and Ontology. Unfortunately however, Enterprise Taxonomy has already slipped into the phase of the cycle known as the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ (ToD), in which hype generated by over-selling naturally lulls after a failure…
Summer time brings summer schools! Just last week in Bologna, the 12th Semantic Web Summer School took place, while in Santiago de Compostela there was a course on Keyword Search in Linked Data. Of course, like every year, there have also been interesting courses in the domain of Multilingual Knowledge. We once again…
“The world is changing”, said the elf queen in Lord of the Rings. Yes, it is, and if governments, and the European Commission in particular, don’t stop being dictatorial power bullies, the EU will fall apart. We live in a world where banks have been bailed out and the rich…
The AI hype as put forth by most of its advocates is way off! Our innovative and creative mind can be assisted by computers.
Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission, has been tasked to make sure that every EU citizen gets the best deal online ‒ no matter in which country they are and which language they speak. He has published a post on his blog addressing multilingualism as a barrier to the Digital Single Market that…
We want to point you to an important publication – the EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, that targets cross-border interoperability out of necessity in what is a dysfunctional European Union. This comes somewhat late, after many years of lobbying from many stakeholders that include ourselves – indeed we have written many posts on…
Is language the new frontier? If you ask people in the street they might shake their heads. That’s because language comes so naturally to us humans. From a technology perspective, many also believe that Google Translate has conquered it. Most of our European decision makers tend to think so as…
Every European country sees the activities of their intelligence services as dirty laundry, not to be discussed and definitely not to be shared, especially with neighbors. The legacy of the past (of the Stasi in Germany and Franco in Spain, for example), combined with current mass-surveillance scandals and our reluctance…
Almost everybody thinks that simply translating means they can operate in another country. Many even believe that letting a machine do it is good enough. Senior officials in the European Union are among them, arguing this more out of avoiding the problem of cross-border interoperability than addressing it. In fact,…
160 Experts joined in Mannheim On 3 – 5 March, the 15th DTT Symposion took place in Mannheim. With approximately 160 participants, this bi-annual event is probably the largest German speaking conference on terminology. Several tools and services providers, including Coreon, presented their offerings. The focus theme of this year’s…
Cross-border e-commerce only results in growth and profit if customers can find the online shop and its products using their own language! Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) are the two main channels for being discovered. Therefore, language technology has become a main driver for cross-border sales because…
Coreon is the only software that brings together expertise of knowledge and language in one comprehensive solution: a Multilingual Knowledge System (MKS). Coreon unifies knowledge with language by combining Concept Maps (technically known as graphs) with Terminology Data. A concept map semantically links individual entries (concepts), while each entry itself…
There’s only one affordable way to provide truly global customer support in many languages: deploy a Multilingual Knowledge System (MKS) to access your (primarily monolingual) knowledge base and use the MKS as an information infrastructure for the process and its tools. The requirements list for global customer support is long. In fact, a product…
Customer interaction takes place nowadays through many channels, and a great experience is expected regardless of where the communication is taking place. It has to be fun and satisfying for an international customer base to engage with a company’s brand. The work of support agents should therefore be made easy and…
In a talk on interoperabilty in Riga 2015 Gudrun Magnusdottir, co-founder of ESTeam AB and Coreon GmbH, talked about how to build the key to an interoperable EU. A Multilingual Knowledge System sits at the core of the world largest cross-border interoperability operation — the Community Trademark. The system is constantly expanding…
Recently 150 experts and I from all across the world attended the NATO Terminology Conference. The event took place at the campus of the NATO headquarters in Brussels, hosted by the NATO Standardization Office (NSO). These two days were probably some of the most inspiring and valuable terminology conference days I’ve…
We constantly hear “Company X bought Y for billions of dollars” in the news. We often later hear that “Company X has made a big loss acquiring Y, as it was overvalued”. The envisaged gain in a company merger rarely happens and, in fact, quite often becomes a loss for…
The real challenge to achieve a Digital Single Market is Europe’s many languages. It’s amazing how politicians, not to mention businesses, have overlooked this. We often don’t notice how hard it is for software to process language, because it’s so natural for us humans. We focus instead on how stupid computers are…
An Multilingual Knowledge System unifies knowledge with language by combining knowledge graphs with terminology. Learn how MKS boosts AI.
In big companies, the least informed person — the CEO — is making the most important decisions. I would go so far as to say that the information flow in any large company is most likely flawed. Important information is simply too far down the company hierarchy to underpin good…
I have started a business as an online retail site in an EU country. Do I need to completely restructure it when I cross a border into a neighboring EU country? Really? Can I not just call my translation agency, and then the problem is solved? I mean, everyone in…