Semantic fingerprinting: Democratising natural language processing

Speaker: Francisco De Sousa Webber, Co-founder and inventor at cortical.io

Cortical.io’s Semantic Fingerprinting technology originates in a new, fundamentally different machine learning approach: it is based on a statistics-free processing model that uses similarity as a foundation for intelligence. The Cortical.io Retina converts any kind of text into a numeric representation, a Semantic Fingerprint that encodes meaning explicitly with all contained senses and contexts. The system "understands" the relatedness of two items by simply measuring their overlap. As a result, it is very fast, reliable and easy to implement - a breakthrough technology that leverages the intelligence of the brain to enable the Natural Language Processing of Big Text Data.

Francisco took an interest in information technology as a medical student specializing in genetics and serology at the University of Vienna. He participated in various research projects at the Vienna Serological Institute and was heavily involved in medical data processing. He took part in such projects as establishing and organizing Austria's dialysis register database and creating a patient documentation system for the university clinic. In the mid-1990s, he worked with Konrad Becker to found Vienna's Institute for New Culture Technologies and Public Netbase - at that time Austria's only free public-access internet server - thus establishing an international competency platform for the critical use of information and communication technologies. In 2005, Francisco founded Matrixware Information Services, a company that developed the first standardised database of patents under the name of Alexandria, where he acted as a CEO. He also initiated the foundation of the Information Retrieval Facility in 2006, a not-for-profit research institute, with the goal to reduce the gap between science and industry.

Recorded at the Big Techday 8 / http://www.bigtechday.com of TNG Technology Consulting / http://www.tngtech.com on June 12th, 2015 in Munich / Germany

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