Who has not been frustrated when using their favorite search engine only to discover that many of the results are simply not relevant? This is the challenge that Brandy King and Kathy Reinold explore in the book “Finding the Concept, Not just the Word”.

This cross disciplinary team, Brandy is a librarian and Kathy is a software consultant at Tessella, have produced an accessible example-filled book that shows how ontologies and other semantic techniques can be used to enhance the effectiveness of electronic search and knowledge management.  The book grew out of a collaboration to provide access to a multi-disciplinary, curated set of literature regarding the effects of the media on children’s health.  The result is a natural language search tool for a varied audience of educators, parents, clinicians and legislators.

The book illustrates how semantic technology can be used to enhance knowledge retrieval and management through natural language queries, dictionaries of concepts (ontologies), guided navigation, data mining, etc.  Readers will gain a sense of how ontologies are currently being used and how semantic techniques could be applied in the future.

Kathy of Tessella says; “The book has been written in easy understandable language so that technical concepts are explained clearly with concepts broken down to the basics.  Yet it provides a sound technical description of the semantic techniques available today.”

The book is available online on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Searching-Concept-Not-Just-Word/dp/1843343185

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Notes to editors:

• For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Tessella please email Christina Tealdi, Marketing Communications and PR Executive, at christina.tealdi@tessella.com.
• Brandy King is the Information Specialist at the Centre of Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston.  She graduated from Smith College with a BA and Simmons College with a M.L.I.S.  She is an active member of the Special Libraries Association, and was the recipient of the 2005 SLA Innovation in Technology Award for the creation of customized media effects ontology used for semantic searching.Kathy Reinold is a software consultant in Clinical Technologies for Tessella Inc.
• Kathy graduated from Emmanuel College with a B.A and Boston University with a M.S. Computer Science.  Kathy is also a Springboard Enterprises alumna, a member of Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology and a member of the Association of Computing Machinery.  Kathy has extensive experience in software development and metholdogies including work on ontologies and semantic search.
• Tessella has a decades-long track record of success delivering technology and consulting services for the business-critical assignments of R&D, science and engineering leaders. Adding business value to client organizations as diverse as Pfizer, Shell, Unilever, and Lockheed Martin by the application of scientific methodology and information technology is Tessella’s goal.  Our clients’ goals include: preserving the nation’s digital heritage, developing fusion technology, enhancing military sensor capability, increasing drug discovery and development efficiency, and reducing risk to health and the environment in the extraction and production of energy. Tessella’s 250 problem solvers are based at offices in North America, the UK, and our European base in the Netherlands.

Tessella contact details:

info@tessella.com

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