Dr. Kathleen Dahlgren is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cognition Technologies, Inc.

We wanted to let you know about the creation of the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language. With over 10 Million Semantic Connections, Cognition’s Semantic Map will enable users to more accurately search,  personalize and filter content they want to see and prevent users from being overwhelmed with irrelevant information. Our lexical resources encode a wealth of morphological, syntactic and semantic information about the words of the English
language and their relationships to each other.  These resources were created and reviewed by lexicographers and linguists over a span of twenty-four years.

We’re excited about the possibilities that come with this new map.  The number of words represented in Cognition’s dictionary is more than twice the size of any other computational linguistic dictionary for English, and the over 10 million Semantic connections make it twenty times the size of the next largest Semantic Map.  Our Semantic Map provides software applications the understanding of over 4 million semantic contexts (word meanings that create contexts for specific meanings of other words), over 536,000 word senses (word and phrase meanings) and 506,000 stems (roots of words) in the English language, which enables more accurate and relevant understanding and results for a wide variety of technologies, including search, advertising and machine translation augmentation. There are 75,000 concept classes (or synonym classes of word meanings), and 7,500 nodes in an ontology or classification scheme.

Integration API’s are available. CognitionAPI(tm) gives technology products a simple, yet advanced integration for Cognition’s Semantic NLP software.  This is also used by enterprise customers who have an internally developed data repository or content management system.  Cognition offers Application Programming Interfaces (API) for the central components of the software including the Search, Index, and Review functionality within the system. Sample scripts and API libraries for C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, VB/ASP/ActiveX, and PHP4 are available.

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