Cognition’s Semantic Technology Contributes to Microsoft’s Bing
Cognition’s Proprietary Semantic Technologies to be leveraged by Microsoft’s Decision Engine
Bing™ and Other Applications
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 17, 2010 -- Cognition Technologies, the creator of the most advanced and
complete semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology on the market, today announced that
Microsoft Corp. has licensed some of its proprietary semantic technologies and will be using them to enhance
Bing and other applications within Microsoft. Specifically, Microsoft will incorporate Cognition’s comprehensive
and robust Semantic Map of the English language.
The non-exclusive licensing arrangement enables Microsoft to embed elements of Cognition’s semantic
technologies into any Microsoft application which would benefit from an “understanding” of the English
language. Initially, it will be used to enhance the user experience in Bing, Microsoft’s online decision engine.
“Cognition’s comprehensive Semantic Map will help us continue to improve the search experiences we can offer
to consumers,” said Ron Kaplan, chief scientist in the Powerset division of Bing at Microsoft. “After several
months of evaluation working closely with the technical team at Cognition, we believe that Cognition’s semantic
technologies can help us provide better results for Bing customers.”
Dr. Kathleen Dahlgren, Cognition’s founder and CTO, added, “Cognition’s Semantic Map will contribute
conceptual reasoning and precise question-answering that will mesh well with Microsoft’s existing search
capabilities.”
The scope of Cognition’s Semantic Map is more than double the size of any other computational linguistic
dictionary for English, and includes more than ten million semantic connections that are comprised of semantic
contexts, meaning representations, taxonomy and word meaning distinctions. The Map encompasses over 540,000
word senses (word and phrase meanings); 75,000 concept classes (or synonym classes of word meanings); 8,000
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