DAEDALUS, S.A.
Company Profile

Contents
About DAEDALUS
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Introduction
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Core competences and capabilities
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Reference clients and partners
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Positioning
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Products
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Projects
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R&D
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Introduction
DAEDALUS is a privately held corporation
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established in Spain
Spin-off from the Technical University of Madrid in
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1998
Core business: language and content technology,
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web technology and business intelligence
Our mission is innovation
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Core competencies
Language and content technology:
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Multilingual and multimedia resources and tools
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for content management
Web technology:
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Specialized search engines (text/ image/ video/
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audio)
Web analytics
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Semantic web, Service-oriented architectures
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Business intelligence:
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Data mining, business rules, prediction,
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modelling, simulation, optimization
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Capabilities
Experts in IT: software engineering, databases,
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intelligent systems
Development of complex and interdisciplinary
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systems
R&D capabilities, with experience in international
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projects
Integration of its own technology with third-party
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solutions and for any client platform
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Reference clients
DAEDALUS provides specialized products and solutions,
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integrating them for large clients as: Yell, PRISA, Unidad Editorial,
Telefónica, Iberdrola, SGAE, SM, Amper, Cervantes Institute
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Partners
Business partners of:
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Developers/integrators of:
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Products and solutions
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STILUS® line
Product line in language and content technology
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Solutions:
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STILUS Corrector: high quality spell, grammar and style
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checker (Spanish and Italian)
STILUS Core: language analysis
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STILUS Sem: semantic expansion and specialized terminology
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STILUS Ner: named-entities extraction (persons, organizations)
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STILUS Geo: geo-positioning
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STILUS Class: automatic classification
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STILUS Trans: search-oriented translators: Spanish/ Catalan/
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Basque/ Galician/ English/ French/ Italian/ German/ Arabic
Reference clients:
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Instituto Cervantes, El País, El Mundo, Yell, Defence
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K-Site® line
K-Site: the Knowledge and key site of an organization
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Product line in Knowledge management
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Reference clients:
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Yell, Telefónica, SDAE, Instituto Cervantes, INDRA, Unidad Editorial
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Solutions:
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K-Site Index: multilingual indexing and search system
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K-Site Fuzzy: “did you mean” search in structured and non-structured
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objects
K-Site Crawler: internet crawling system
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K-Site Rules: business rules management systems
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Languages:
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European (including Russian and Bulgarian)
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Asiatic (Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
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Lawerinto® line
On-line, real time web analytics
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Internet audit circulations
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Follow up of marketing campaigns
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Reports by Email and SMS
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Adaptability to clients
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Reference client: Grupo SM
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20 corporate web sites and 200 client web sites
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4 million pages/month
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Awarded the Telefónica – New Internet
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Applications Prize 2002
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Projects in Content Management (I)
Semantic search engines – Semantic web
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Amper, Yell, Grupo PRISA
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Multilingual Search
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Futurespace (Defence)
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Specialized text search
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Hispanic search engine (Telefónica Soluciones, Instituto Cervantes)
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Multimedia content search
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AMPER (Defence), Societies managing authorship rights: SDAE, AIE
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Fuzzy and semantic search
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“Did you mean...” for Yellow pages and telephone information systems
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(Yell)
Automatic content translation
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Translation Spanish/Catalan/Basque/Galician for 11888 (Yell)
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Projects in Content Management (II)
Information filtering and extraction in tax inspection reports
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National Tax Agency
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Photo/image search (fuzzy/semantic)
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StockPhotos
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Automatic multilingual answering, document classification
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Linguaserve
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Information system for R&D regional programmes
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Regional Governments of Asturias and Murcia, in partnership with
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AZERTIA/INDRA
Digitalization, publishing, indexing and search of contents in web/CD
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Government of Castilla y León
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Projects in Business Intelligence
Intelligent Energy
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Telefónica Soluciones
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Competitive Intelligence
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Foundation of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Local, short-term forecasting of weather, pollution and power production in
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wind farms
Iberinco, Grupo Iberdrola
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Churning detection in mobile network operators
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TeleSP, Brazil, in partnership with Telefónica I+D
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Market forecasting for the Pharmaceutical industry
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Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical, Denmark
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Scheduling of Public Works
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Ministry for the Environment
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Main issues: optimisation, modelling, simulation and data mining in complex
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systems
Integration of third-party’s products: Xpress MP, Powersim Studio, DataEngine
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R&D Activities
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Representative R&D Activities (I)
Projects
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Contents on Demand (AVANZA, Ministry of Industry, 2008-2010)
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Personalized news delivery and recommendation system
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Partners: Germinus XXI, Agencia EFE
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Investment: 1,2M€ (total), 132K€ (DAEDALUS)
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DISUIPA (AVANZA, Ministry of Industry, 2008-2010)
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Platform for the access of handicapped people to public Internet facilities
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Partners: Fractalia, UC3M, Consultec
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Investment: 650K€ (total), 200K€ (DAEDALUS)
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CANTIGA (PROFIT, Ministry of Industry, 2007-08)
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Cataloguing and federate search for Digital Music Contents
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Partners: Germinus XXI, Fundación Albéniz, UPM, UC3M
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Investment: 1 M€ (global), 140K€ (DAEDALUS)
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ITECBAN (CENIT, Ministry of Industry, 2006-09)
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Architecture for Information Systems in the Banking Industry
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Partners: INDRA, CajaMadrid, Sun Microsystems, Grid Systems
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Investment: 33,3 M€ (total) 1,5M€ (DAEDALUS)
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Representative R&D Activities (II)
Projects (cont.)
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EDDENN (PROFIT, Ministry of Industry, 2004-05)
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Information Extraction in non-structured documents from digital images
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Partner: IPSA. Investment: 775K€ (total), 235K€ (DAEDALUS)
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Omnipaper (European Union, IST Programme, 2002-04)
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Distributed and multilingual access to news services
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Partners: Univ. Leuven (coordinator) and others
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Investment: 2,8M€ (total), 423K€ ()
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European Research Networks and Platforms
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ONTOWEB: Ontology-based Information Exchange for Knowledge
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Management and Electronic Commerce
KDNET: Knowledge Discovery Network of Excellence
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CLEF: Cross Language Evaluation Forum
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FLaReNet: Fostering Language Resources Network
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NEM Platform: Networked and Electronic Media
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ARTEMIS Platform: Embedded Systems
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DAEDALUS, S.A.
Central Office:
López de Hoyos 15
E-28006 Madrid
Technical Office:
Vallausa II Building
Albufera 321
E-28031 Madrid
Tel: +34 913.32.43.01
info@daedalus.es
http://www.daedalus.es
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