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Classification and Context

This is a situation that probably sounds familiar to you: You meet a person and you are sure that you know him/her well and that you have already seen him or her many times – but you cannot remember who it is. More precisely – you cannot put the person into a context....

The Meaning of Words

A famous poem by German poet Christian Morgenstern starts with the line that probably everybody has heard once: “Die Möwen sehen alle aus, als ob sie Emma hießen” which is in the translation by Karl F. Ross: “The seagulls by their looks suggest that...

OCR on Historical Documents

Skilja is proud to announce that we have received a grant from the European Union supporting a research and development project to improve OCR on historical documents. The grant is provided through the Eurostars program of the European Union. This program supports...

Visual Classifiers From Random Images

Now this is an interesting experiment that leads us very close to the touch point between machine classification and human imaginations. As described in previous posts, auto-classification algorithms are using features that are extracted from the objects to be...

Visiting Docville – October 2014

Now already a tradition we just had the fifth meeting of Docville in Brussels this week. Docville is a networking & exchange initiative for executives from the international Information Management ecosystem (Capture, ECM, BPM, BI and BPO),...

Intelligence Everywhere: Top 10 Technology Trends 2015

Gartner has just published their outlook on the strategic technical developments that will be important for enterprises in the next three years. Well – it seems that we at Skilja are at the right place with what we are doing. We have known this for a long time and our...