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Articles by Heather Kotula

Readers' Choice Awards 2025 - Access Innovations: Implement Foundational Technologies in your AI Projects

Organizations that implement foundational technologies, such as taxonomy and auto-tagging content, will see significantly better success rates. With AI adoption failure rates ranging from 50% to 95%, it makes sense to take the time to lay a solid foundation first.

AI Trailblazer: Access Innovations, Inc. - Improving the ability to find and discover information

We have been implementing AI since 1997. We use its collection of techniques, applications, algorithms and models to make processing informational text faster, easier, more accurate, and less of a burden on humans.

We feed LLMs and make them better - Access Innovations

There is a way you can supercharge an LLM and get far superior results, and it's fast.

Do you know the basics underlying every AI system? - Access Innovation

AI systems are baked into our everyday lives at this point, but do you know the basics underlying every AI system? One thing required for any AI: an expert system. An expert system has two components: a knowledge or rules base and an inference engine.

Navigating Taxonomy Challenges

AI 50 Spotlight: AI in Your Pocket

We often think of artificial intelligence as what is known as general or strong AI - highly sophisticated systems that have human-like characteristics. We currently live in a world that has a multitude of narrow AI implementations- those that perform one function.

Heather Kotula, VP Marketing and Communications, Access Innovations: Use artificial intelligence to unlock new potential for your knowledge base

Access Innovations, Heather Kotula, VP Marketing and Communications discusses the challenges of knowledge organization