complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness or even survival among rivals. today, organizations have come to the point that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably successful in a competitive world...

Technology-oriented companies are typically interested in monitoring developments concerning their technologies. However, most companies, especially SMEs, don’t have an efficient process how this is achieved. If at all, efforts are mostly limited to uncoordinated keyword queries on web resources. Here, we present a semi-automatic approach that allows for structured and continuous detection of r...

This empirical paper analyses the importance of information and communications technologies (ICT) in the technological diversification trend among the world's largest manufacturing firms during the 1980s and 1990s. The objective of the research is twofold: firstly, to emphasise the emerging differences among technologies when companies from different industries patent outside their traditional ...

Up-to-date corporate information research, i.e. the active tracking and management of knowledge relevant to one’s business, is a major task for knowledge-intensive companies. While the correct analysis of market situations and competitors are critical requirements for success, the failure to provide adequate knowledge about one’s business environment may incur large losses. In order to support ...

This paper shows the implementation and evaluation of the Entity Linking or Named Entity Disambiguation system used and developed at Bloomberg. In particular, we present and evaluate a methodology and a system that do not require the use of Wikipedia as a knowledge base or training corpus. We present how we built features for disambiguation algorithms from the Bloomberg News corpus, and how we ...

This paper presents a knowledge evaluation and evolution in a knowledge management system by using a Semantic Wiki approach. The authors describe a Semantic Wiki called WikiDesign which is a component of a Knowledge Management system. Currently WikiDesign is used in engineering departments of companies to emphasize technical knowledge. This study explains how WikiDesign ensures the reliability ...

The NLToolset is a framework of tools, techniques, and resources designed for building text processing applications. It is a pattern based system which uses world knowledge resident in a lexicon, a location gazetteer, and lists of universal terms, such as first names and the Fortune 500 companies. This knowledge base is extensible with generic, as well as domain-specific, information. It applie...