by Angela Guess
According to a new article out of the company, “Expert System, the leader in multilingual cognitive computing technology for the effective management and exploitation of unstructured information, today announced that it has expanded its footprint in the United States with the addition of two new research and development labs. The new Cogito Labs located in the Washington, DC and Silicon Valley areas, will focus on expanding the cognitive capabilities of software by continuing to build on the principle that without human like comprehension, the cognitive capabilities of computers will always be limited.”
The article continues, “Expert System has developed the Cogito Labs system as a strategic and effective way to ensure close cooperation between engineers and developers on one side, and linguistic professionals, faculty, researchers and specialists on the other. The new US-based labs join Expert System’s successful family of existing Cogito Labs in Modena, Rovereto and Naples, Italy; Grenoble, France; and Madrid, Spain.”
It goes on, “Developing technology that understands and reads like humans is complicated. Keyword-based analysis, such as how Google and other engines do ‘search’, is fast and efficient, but does not provide computers with a real way to understand what is written in a text as humans would do. In order to do this, the technology must have embedded the underlying knowledge, ideas and experience that people have.”
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