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September 02, 2014

Semantics Technology to Assist Big Data Analysis

A semantics technology developer announced this past week that it has partnered with an enterprise data management company in order to strengthen their analytics and better analyze unstructured data.

Expert System has created its Cogito technology to power programs that scan for relationships, trends, and events in text, and Cogito itself uses the Sensigrafo semantic network to disambiguate terms. It is this technology that will now work with Cloudera Enterprise 5 to process large data sets. Tim Stevens, vice president of business and corporate development at Cloudera, explained the basic interaction between the two pieces of data analysis software.

"The recent certification on Cloudera Enterprise 5 and the addition of Expert System into the Cloudera Connect partner ecosystem provides our customers with the ability to enrich their unstructured content and extract greater insight and value from data stored in Cloudera's data management platform," Stevens said.

As Cloudera processes data, the Cogito technology will be able to search through text documents to process the meanings of individual words and phrases, and through that, it will be able to define relationships between sections of text. Its ultimate goal, the announcement suggests, is to analyze text in the way a human might analyze it. People scan words not as individual pieces of information; instead, they look at words in context, and that is what Cogito is able to do.

One market research report pointed out this summer that it expects the text analytics market to be worth $4.9 billion by 2019. That growth will represent a rise from a market worth of $1.64 billion in 2014. Overall, that is a continued annual growth rate of 18.1 percent over five years. In any market, that sort of growth could be considered rapid, and here it represents that real value that underlies the collection of large amounts of data. Big data, as it has come to be known, is largely worthless if companies cannot analyze it properly, and text data may be the most valuable of all because it sits at the core of human communication. Technologies such as Cogito can transform the market and allow it to grow as much as analysts predict it might.




Edited by Stefania Viscusi
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