In 1997, a team of researchers
at IBM Research - Tokyo
invented TAKMI, a technology that can read and uncover trends from the avalanche of information in natural
language format. The Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan recently honored the research team for its contribution in pioneering text mining technology with the 2012
Commendation for Science and Technology.
TAKMI
(Text Analysis and Knowledge Mining) is a text mining technology that goes
beyond search -- analyzing data from structured and numerical, to
unstructured and text-based. It looks for unknowns by mining data
such as email, product reviews on the Internet, memos, and other written
documents.
“[What] unstructured information can
tell you is the answer to questions you didn’t even know you needed to worry
about. It lets you know what you don’t know,” said Scott Spangler of IBM Research
- Almaden and co-author of
Mining the Talk: Unlocking the Business Value in Unstructured Information.
Award Recipient (From left) Tetsuya Nasukawa, Kohichi Takeda, Seiji Hamada, Hiroshi Kanayama and Hideo Watanabe. |
Today,
the text mining technology pioneered by IBM Research is widely applied
to industries including manufacturing, finance, insurance, broadcast,
telecommunications and retail industries to help improve customer care, product
and services quality, and expand business
opportunities.
Last year, the award was given to the IBM's accessibility research team led by IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa in recognition of their contributions in the development of a voice browser for the visually impaired, which has since become the foundation for Web accessibility research and development, and for accessibility legislation and standardization around the world.
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