Due to the performant way the patented algorithm has been designed, it can check through millions of permutations in every sentence in a document extremely quickly. In a large corpus of text this equates to trillions of permutations.  Run on nothing more sophisticated than a standard i7 high street laptop, the algorithm processed 1 Million... Continue Reading →

Honoured to be reviewing for the British Computer Society Search Industry Awards next month.  https://www.bcs.org/membership/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/

Delighted to guest author an article on Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Geosciences for Halliburton’s September Issue of Subsurface Insights. This month's issue is a minerals special. To access the article you can sign up free to Halliburton's magazine: https://geoweb.neftex.com/account/accessrequest Infoscience Technologies website is: http://www.infosciencetechnologies.com

Detecting entities such as well names in unstructured text can be useful for many aspects of information discovery. Lookup lists from corporate databases and regular expression pattern rules can be useful. They do have limitations though, it can be difficult to predict sometimes what may lie within thousands of old reports and documents. Having a... Continue Reading →

When deploying a search engine in an organisation, it can be useful to think deeply about the underlying assumptions being made. These can help inform strategies. Arguably, some organisations may deploy reductionist technology focused strategies without perhaps thinking about all the assumptions they are making. CLEVERLEY, P.H. and BURNETT, S. 2019. Enterprise search and discovery... Continue Reading →

As well as detecting Geo-resources in unstructured text reports, papers and logs, OpportunityFinder can detect and disambiguate all kinds of geological concepts. High level lithology groupings in the Williston Basin are shown above in the Beeswarm chart. contact@infosciencetechnologies.com

Oxford, UK 18th June 2021: Infoscience Technologies Ltd, the pioneer in extracting geoscience and subsurface knowledge from text, is delighted to announce the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent for the OpportunityFinder® technology.  The patent award is for a Natural Language Processing System which suggests Geo-Resource Ideas & Plays from Unstructured Text.... Continue Reading →

Sentiment analysis of the last ten years of Guardian news articles mentioning geoscience. Geoscience is often mentioned in context to natural geohazards. However, there might be a trend towards increasing negative sentiment over time that may warrant further exploration. #geosciences #naturallanguageprocessing #oilandgas #mining #hydrogeology #geohazards

Topics mentioned with articles containing the word ‘geoscience’, past 10 years from The Guardian newspaper. Words are clustered automatically by their similarity (cosine) shown by the colour groupings. #geosciences #informationscience

The Python OpportunityFinder® algorithm from Infoscience Technologies can now automatically detect fossil names and their associated Lithostratigraphic Units and Geological Ages without a prior list of names. This can be useful because it is not always possible to predefine all the names and variations you are likely to come across in text. Furthermore, the way... Continue Reading →