The Most Advanced Commercially Available Semantic NLP
Cognition's Semantic NLP, the Company's patented linguistic meaning-based text processing technology, is able to simultaneously deliver significantly higher levels of precision and recall than is possible with currently used NLP and Search technologies.
Cognition's natural language technology employs a unique mix of linguistics and mathematical algorithms which has, in effect, taught the computer the meanings (or associated concepts) of nearly all the words and frequently used phrases within the common English language. It also has knowledge of the relations between words and phrases, especially paraphrase (a "finger" or a "digit") and taxonomy (a "finger" is part of a "hand", a "cow" is a "bovine" and is a "mammal").
Unlike all of the popular text reading and search in use today which utilize mathematically-based pattern-matching technology (i.e. they search for a particular word pattern based upon the user query), Cognition's Semantic NLP understands the meaning within the context of the text it is processing. Therefore, the end benefit delivered to Cognition's clients is simultaneously more precise and relevant understanding of their customers' actions and intent.
Cognition's Semantic NLP Understands:
- Word stems - the roots of words;
- Words/Phrases - with individual meanings of ambiguous words and phrases listed out;
- The morphological properties of each word/phrase, e.g., what type of plural does it take, what type of past tense, how does it combine with affixes like "re" and "ation";
- How to disambiguate word senses - This allows Cognition's technology to pick the correct word meaning of ambiguous words in context;
- The synonym relations between word meanings;
- The ontological relations between word meanings; one can think of this as a hierarchical grouping of meanings or a gigantic "family tree of English" with mothers, daughters, and cousins;
- The syntactic and semantic properties of words. This is particularly useful with verbs, for example. Cognition encodes the types of objects different verb meanings can occur with.
How Cognition Is Different
The semantic mapping of the English language is the key to making Natural Language Processing (NLP) effective. Cognition’s Semantic Map, which it built over the past 23 years, is complete and unique and can be used in the Semantic Web for semantic search, search tools, machine translation, document search, context search, and much more.
No other NLP companies have the depth, breadth and completeness of Cognition’s semantic map.
Cognition Technologies has changed the NLP paradigm through its unique and complete combination of a complete semantic map and linguistic elements to optimize semantic understanding:
- Morphology
- The various forms of word, e.g. singular, plural, tense
- Syntax
- The grammatical structure, e.g. verbs, nouns
- Semantics
- Word and sentence meaning, augmented by synonymy and taxonomy
- Spelling
- The various ways words are spelled (or misspelled)
Below is an example of a simple semantic map, which Cognition has mapped for all common words in the English language.
Try it for Yourself!
Cognition recently launched a series of Websites with high-value deep content in the areas of Health, Law and Consumer information. They currently include:
These Websites showcase the Company's technology, demonstrate its capabilities to provide deeper and more precise natural language text understanding, build brand awareness, and provide a showcase on how Cognition's Semantic NLP can be applied to other technologies, such as semantic search, document search, machine translation, the Semantic Web, and more. Cognition's home page (www.cognition.com) provides a launching point for each of these specialized Websites.