Knowledge Mining with Microsoft Azure
Azure Cognitive Search
Knowledge Mining is one of the areas where Microsoft has done an extraordinary job. Azure Cognitive Search is its cloud-based search service powered by artificial intelligence for developing web and mobile applications.
In May 2018, Microsoft introduced what can be considered the best-known example of Knowledge Mining: The JFK Files. Microsoft processed more than 34,000 documents in complex formats such as photos, handwritten notes, and official reports, extracted all readable information, and organized it in a way that makes it easy to query and use in many forms. You can try it out here.
Behind the “JFK Files” lies the power of the Azure AI platform. In particular, Azure Cognitive Search is the search service that brings together all Azure cognitive services, enabling users to discover patterns and relationships in content, understand sentiments, extract key phrases, and more.
The online application of the Historical Archive of the Port Authority of Valencia is another example of Azure Cognitive Search in action. In this case, users can access information contained in 19th-century documents—an era when documents were not manually tagged.
The collection explorer of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is another inspiring example. It allows users to find paintings not only by name but also by their content.