by Angela Guess
Bryan Bell of Expert System recently discussed how the financial sector can turn to semantics to make the most of its Big Data. Bell writes, “The financial sector consolidations over the past decade left many firms with volumes of knowledge trapped in legacy systems—but only a surface-level understanding of the valuable data they acquired. Understanding how to best leverage the fruits of their consolidations—data—is where many are now focusing their attentions and IT budgets.”
He continues, “Financial institutions are looking to linguistics and semantics as the best option for managing and taking advantage of their unstructured data, using it to better understand customers and competitors, to identify impactful market trends or simply to automate the process of answering common customer questions. As one Chief Data Officer put it,‘We are the stewards of one of our firms’ most important assets, data, and we have been charged with bringing meaning to the data. I believe semantics offers a consistent, long-term capability and change in how data will be managed.’ The ability to understand words in context is where semantics has proven to excel above all other technologies.”
