[Sigia-l] Blinkx

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Anders Ramsay
>  
> the underlying technology for blinkx comes from Autonomy Corp.

The Autonomy technology is very interesting:

    http://www.autonomy.com/c/content/Technology

AT> Autonomy's strength lies in advanced pattern-matching techniques
AT> (non-linear adaptive digital signal processing), rooted in the
AT> theories of Bayesian Inference and Claude Shannon's Principles of
AT> Information, that enable identification of the patterns that
AT> naturally occur in text, based on the usage and frequency of words
AT> or terms that correspond to specific concepts. 
AT>
AT> Based on the preponderance of one pattern over another in a piece
AT> of unstructured information, Autonomy enables computers to
AT> understand that there is a particular probability that a document
AT> in question is about a specific subject. In this way, Autonomy is
AT> able to extract a document's digital essence, encode the unique
AT> "signature" of the key concepts, then enable a host of operations
AT> to be performed on that text, automatically. 


The following blog has some interesting comments on Blinkx:

http://gigaom.com/index2.php/archives/2004/06/17/blinkx-blinkx


Boniface