Semtech 2011 impressions

SEMTECH 2011 Highlights 6/10/2011 Recognos Inc. www.recognos.com [email_address]

Main Highlights
Semantic Tagging – www.schema.org very NEW !!!
This site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.
W3C Standard for Rules – RIF (Rules Interchange Format) – same role as SWRL
SBVR – Semantic of Business Vocabularies and Business Rules
Linked Open Data
Cray XMT – Extreme Multithreaded technology got into Semantic Technology – The Franz Allegrograph is being implemented – doesn not have a floating point processor
How did IBM’s technology win the Jeopardy contest
Lots of NLP and Sentiment Analysis
Other…..

Web Sites
www.semtech2011.com
http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/handouts.cfm - handouts (sanfran11)

IBM Deep QA
Web Site
How IBM beat the Jeopardy Champion
Project name – Deep QA
25 researchers form the US, Japan, Israel worked for 4 years
NLP analysis platform – machine learning
Presented by Aditya Kalyanpur, IBM

Semantics in CRM
Build Guinn – CTO Amdocs – The next generation consumer business - uses real time semantically enabled intelligence
The Rise of Interest Graphs using Semantic Technology
Amdocs Intelligent Decision Automation Platform (AIDA)
Pro active IVR – Semantic IVR

From the Amdocs Presentation

Linked Open Data
Internationalized Resource Identifiers IRIs – W3C
Bernadette Hyland – Linked Open Data Cookbook ( the presentation is on SlideShare )
Good Book: Linked Open Data in the Enterprise
Talis launched a new Linked Data marketplace named Kasabi (is in beta)
Make the data smart and self describing

UI Design in Semantic Web
Main advantage of the Semantic Web over the UI design is that the data contains the context (the context is in the “line”)
The magic behind Usable Design
UI samples shared during session

UI Design in Semantic Web
Useful samples:
Freebase Parallax
OOKABOO
Footnote.com
Smithsonian Institution
More on Design for Semantic Web

Companies (1)
Clark & Parsia – Stardog (RDF store), SPANNER – semantic data extraction platform, POP – Semantic Application for skill – competency management, Pellet 3 reasoner (commercial – Pellet 2 will be supported another year)
iQuser – Semantic Platform
Revelytix - Spinner (Alpha), Rex (RIF rule engine) Alpha, Spyder – equivalent to D2RQ – SPARQL endpoint, Knoodle – Wiki to collaborate in ontology creation and management
Smart Logic – semantic enterprise query platform – build on top of Google and Sharepoint 10 - 11

Companies (2)
www.cognition.com – NLP processing
Pure Discovery – Semantic Search
VSTI Corp – Semantic Discovery
Open Amplify – NLP and Market Sentiment Analysis

Software
Apache Solr – Open Source search
SIREn: Efficient semi-structured Information Retrieval for Lucene
NetKernel – a Resource Oriented Environment
Decoupled Client/Server
Content Negotiation
Caching and data synch
OWLGrEd – a UML ontology design
dotNetRDF – open source .NET RDF library
Thread – a simple way to write SPARQL from needlebase
Synaptica – taxonomy and metadata management
Data Harmony – taxonomy and knowledge management
Lexalytics – sentiment analysis

Software 2
WebProtege – web version of the Protégé:
Web, Lightweight, Collaboration, Customizable, Extensible,
SAS – has a whole suite of apps; some:
Content Categorization Studio
Ontology Management
Programmable WEB – Open API discovery/directory
Alchemy API – NLP Service
Factual – next freebase
Kasabi – Linked Data market place (liked data hosting/publishing/linking)
TripleMap – visual data representation and visual data analysis (build on RDF using indexing with Lucene and Solr)

Semtech 2011 impressions

by George Roth on Jun 13, 2011

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