[IN2], the service oriented intellectual search platform from Saltlux Inc. won the Customer Satisfaction Award in the part of search solution by the Digital Times.
[IN2] supports service oriented architecture (SOA) and web 2.0 environments and enables to secure the economical feasibility and scalability in addition to the personal interests of customers through application of excellent text mining and semantic technology.
[IN2] exactly understands the search queries of users through automatic functions of classification, summarization and clustering based on text mining technology and through extension of ontology and semantic web technologies. It provides reliable search results through information search extension by relationship expression and by the intellectual reasoning function of computer.
[IN2] also reduces the economic burden of users through maximization of service utilization by linkage to SOA environment support, open API, and mash-up. It enables sustainable improvement of search quality through providing user function of search results and automatic ranking control.
Additionally, cross multilingual search and automatic translation functions will reduce the difficulties of information search in foreign languages. It also enhances the information accessibility through visualization.
Saltlux foresees the expandability of the off-shore business through Japanese Branch which will soon be opened and the successful launch of [IN2]DOR in Europe through a business partner who has its operational headquarters in Europe. Saltlux forecasts ramping-up its sales revenue abroad upto 40% of its total revenue in 2012.
Digital Times 2007/12/14
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Saltlux starts exporting [IN2]DOR to European market.
Saltlux Inc. (Saltlux), the leader in the information retrieval market through Search 2.0 and semantic web technologies in Asia successfully starts exporting its search engine, [IN2]DOR to Europe through its globally renowned business partner with headquaters in Europe who is specialized in the semantic web technology. (The name of the business partner will be announced later.)
Because of this European business partner of Saltlux has been doing their business in the North America in addition to the European countries, [IN2]DOR will be distributed through this partner and experienced by the users in the North Amerian countries as well as in the European countries.
[IN2]DOR is the next generation integrated retrieval engine that enables not only the retrieval of the structured data and text information but also enables the object retrieval of graphs, images and charts inside the documents.
Saltlux is knowledge content valuation company established in 1979.
Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux, says, “This business transaction of [IN2]DOR is the first result of our commercial activities in abroad and will be the stepping stone for Saltlux to become a global company in the field of information retrieval engine."
Because of this European business partner of Saltlux has been doing their business in the North America in addition to the European countries, [IN2]DOR will be distributed through this partner and experienced by the users in the North Amerian countries as well as in the European countries.
[IN2]DOR is the next generation integrated retrieval engine that enables not only the retrieval of the structured data and text information but also enables the object retrieval of graphs, images and charts inside the documents.
Saltlux is knowledge content valuation company established in 1979.
Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux, says, “This business transaction of [IN2]DOR is the first result of our commercial activities in abroad and will be the stepping stone for Saltlux to become a global company in the field of information retrieval engine."
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Paper Reading Session on “Recent Technology Trends of Semantic Web and the Guide to Its Utilization.” in Web World 2007 Conference
Mr. Eddy Choi, the Semantic group leader of Saltlux (http://in2.saltlux.com), has had a lecture on the market trends and utilization of semantic technology at the Web World 2007 Conference held in Seoul during the period of November 27 through 30, 2007.In the Web World 2007 Conference separate topics have been discussed; web planning and strategies on November 27th, web design and UI on November 28th, web development and technology on November 29th and internet marketing on November 30th.At the conference Eddy Choi has had a lecture titled “Recent technology Trends of Semantic Web and the Guide to Its Utilization.” In his lecture Eddy introduced the objectives and meanings of Semantic web, relationship of Semantic web with web 2.0, and present status of the semantic web development. He also showed the components and use cases of semantic web. The tendency of research of semantic web was discussed and the direction of development was suggestedEddy Choi, the lecturer is the Semantic group leader of Saltlux’s Human Language Technology Laboratory working on various projects related to context awareness, service oriented computing in addition to semantic web.
Saltlux Inc is the market leader in Semantic web technology and search 2.0 in Korea as well as in Asian market.
Saltlux Inc is the market leader in Semantic web technology and search 2.0 in Korea as well as in Asian market.
Social Graph & Beyond: Tim Berners-Lee's Graph is The Next Level
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, today published a blog post about what he terms the Graph, which is similar (if not identical) to his Semantic Web vision. Referencing both Brad Fitzpatrick's influential post earlier this year on Social Graph, and our own Alex Iskold's analysis of Social Graph concepts, Berners-Lee went on to position the Graph as the third main "level" of computer networks. First there was the Internet, then the Web, and now the Graph - which Sir Tim labeled (somewhat tongue in cheek) the Giant Global Graph!
Note that Berners-Lee wasn't specifically talking about the Social Graph, which is the term Facebook has been heavily promoting, but something more general. In a nutshell, this is how Berners-Lee envisions the 3 levels (a.k.a. layers of abstraction):
1. The Internet: links computers
2. Web: links documents
3. Graph: links relationships between people and/or documents -- "the things documents are about" as Berners-Lee put it.
The Graph is all about connections and re-use of data. Berners-Lee wrote that Semantic Web technologies will enable this:
"So, if only we could express these relationships, such as my social graph, in a way that is above the level of documents, then we would get re-use. That's just what the graph does for us. We have the technology -- it is Semantic Web technology, starting with RDF OWL and SPARQL. Not magic bullets, but the tools which allow us to break free of the document layer."
Sir Tim also notes that as we go up each level, we lose more control but gain more benefits: "...at each layer --- Net, Web, or Graph --- we have ceded some control for greater benefits." The benefits are what happens when documents and data are connected - for example being able to re-use our personal and friends data across multiple social networks, which is what Google's OpenSocial aims to achieve.
What's more, says Berners-Lee, the Graph has major implications for the Mobile Web. He said that longer term "thinking in terms of the graph rather than the web is critical to us making best use of the mobile web, the zoo of wildy differing devices which will give us access to the system." The following scenario sums it up very nicely:
"Then, when I book a flight it is the flight that interests me. Not the flight page on the travel site, or the flight page on the airline site, but the URI (issued by the airlines) of the flight itself. That's what I will bookmark. And whichever device I use to look up the bookmark, phone or office wall, it will access a situation-appropriate view of an integration of everything I know about that flight from different sources. The task of booking and taking the flight will involve many interactions. And all throughout them, that task and the flight will be primary things in my awareness, the websites involved will be secondary things, and the network and the devices tertiary."
Conclusion
I'm very pleased Tim Berners-Lee has appropriated the concept of the Social Graph and married it to his own vision of the Semantic Web. What Berners-Lee wrote today goes way beyond Facebook, OpenSocial, or social networking in general. It is about how we interact with data on the Web (whether it be mobile or PC or a device like the Amazon Kindle) and the connections that we can take advantage of using the network. This is also why Semantic Apps are so interesting right now, as they take data connection to the next level on the Web.
Overall, unlike Nick Carr , I'm not concerned whether mainstream people accept the term 'Graph' or 'Social Graph'. It really doesn't matter, so long as the web apps that people use enable them to participate in this 'next level' of the Web. That's what Google, Facebook, and a lot of other companies are trying to achieve.
Incidentally, it's great to see Tim Berners-Lee 're-using' concepts like the Social Graph, or simply taking inspiration from them. He never really took to the Web 2.0 concept, perhaps because it became too hyped and commercialized, but the fact is that the Consumer Web has given us many innovations over the past few years. Everything from Google to YouTube to MySpace to Facebook. So even though Sir Tim has always been about graphs (as he noted in his post, the Graph is essentially the same as the Semantic Web), it's fantastic he is reaching out to the 'web 2.0' community and citing people like Brad Fitzpatrick and Alex Iskold.
Note that Berners-Lee wasn't specifically talking about the Social Graph, which is the term Facebook has been heavily promoting, but something more general. In a nutshell, this is how Berners-Lee envisions the 3 levels (a.k.a. layers of abstraction):
1. The Internet: links computers
2. Web: links documents
3. Graph: links relationships between people and/or documents -- "the things documents are about" as Berners-Lee put it.
The Graph is all about connections and re-use of data. Berners-Lee wrote that Semantic Web technologies will enable this:
"So, if only we could express these relationships, such as my social graph, in a way that is above the level of documents, then we would get re-use. That's just what the graph does for us. We have the technology -- it is Semantic Web technology, starting with RDF OWL and SPARQL. Not magic bullets, but the tools which allow us to break free of the document layer."
Sir Tim also notes that as we go up each level, we lose more control but gain more benefits: "...at each layer --- Net, Web, or Graph --- we have ceded some control for greater benefits." The benefits are what happens when documents and data are connected - for example being able to re-use our personal and friends data across multiple social networks, which is what Google's OpenSocial aims to achieve.
What's more, says Berners-Lee, the Graph has major implications for the Mobile Web. He said that longer term "thinking in terms of the graph rather than the web is critical to us making best use of the mobile web, the zoo of wildy differing devices which will give us access to the system." The following scenario sums it up very nicely:
"Then, when I book a flight it is the flight that interests me. Not the flight page on the travel site, or the flight page on the airline site, but the URI (issued by the airlines) of the flight itself. That's what I will bookmark. And whichever device I use to look up the bookmark, phone or office wall, it will access a situation-appropriate view of an integration of everything I know about that flight from different sources. The task of booking and taking the flight will involve many interactions. And all throughout them, that task and the flight will be primary things in my awareness, the websites involved will be secondary things, and the network and the devices tertiary."
Conclusion
I'm very pleased Tim Berners-Lee has appropriated the concept of the Social Graph and married it to his own vision of the Semantic Web. What Berners-Lee wrote today goes way beyond Facebook, OpenSocial, or social networking in general. It is about how we interact with data on the Web (whether it be mobile or PC or a device like the Amazon Kindle) and the connections that we can take advantage of using the network. This is also why Semantic Apps are so interesting right now, as they take data connection to the next level on the Web.
Overall, unlike Nick Carr , I'm not concerned whether mainstream people accept the term 'Graph' or 'Social Graph'. It really doesn't matter, so long as the web apps that people use enable them to participate in this 'next level' of the Web. That's what Google, Facebook, and a lot of other companies are trying to achieve.
Incidentally, it's great to see Tim Berners-Lee 're-using' concepts like the Social Graph, or simply taking inspiration from them. He never really took to the Web 2.0 concept, perhaps because it became too hyped and commercialized, but the fact is that the Consumer Web has given us many innovations over the past few years. Everything from Google to YouTube to MySpace to Facebook. So even though Sir Tim has always been about graphs (as he noted in his post, the Graph is essentially the same as the Semantic Web), it's fantastic he is reaching out to the 'web 2.0' community and citing people like Brad Fitzpatrick and Alex Iskold.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Telefonoca I+D of Spain paid a visit to Saltlux Inc. in Seoul, Korea.
A group of representative staff members of Spanish Telefonica I+D lead by Mr. Fernando Fournon Gonzalez-Barcia, the Executive Chairman paid a visit to Saltlux Inc. on November 19th, 2007 and discuss on the business cooperation for the “Open Technology Observatory” project being planned by Telefonica.
Telefónica I+D, (or Telefónica Research and Development) is the innovation company of the Telefónica Group. Owned 100% by Telefónica, this subsidiary was formed it 1988, with the aim of strengthening the Group's competitiveness through technological innovation.
Telefónica I+D is the most important private R&D company in Spain, in terms of both activities and resources, and in terms of number of staff, and it is one of the most important companies on the continent as regards participation in European Research projects.
Saltlux Inc. (Tony Lee, the President and CEO) is one of the global leaders in semantic technology from Asia located in Seoul, Korea.
The representatives of Saltlux Inc. and Telefonica I+D introduced their company to each other and Dr. Richard Benjamins lead the discussion on the Open Technical Observatory project. The OTO project is to perform a continuous and systemic analysis of emerging technologies from the industry (competitors, start-ups, suppliers, etc.) and academic worlds (universities and technology centres, etc.)
Both companies verbally agreed to cooperate for the project and the written agreement will soon be contracted for the efficiency. When the project will be started, the cooperation results will be printed in report form and shared each other.
Telefónica I+D, (or Telefónica Research and Development) is the innovation company of the Telefónica Group. Owned 100% by Telefónica, this subsidiary was formed it 1988, with the aim of strengthening the Group's competitiveness through technological innovation.
Telefónica I+D is the most important private R&D company in Spain, in terms of both activities and resources, and in terms of number of staff, and it is one of the most important companies on the continent as regards participation in European Research projects.
Saltlux Inc. (Tony Lee, the President and CEO) is one of the global leaders in semantic technology from Asia located in Seoul, Korea.
The representatives of Saltlux Inc. and Telefonica I+D introduced their company to each other and Dr. Richard Benjamins lead the discussion on the Open Technical Observatory project. The OTO project is to perform a continuous and systemic analysis of emerging technologies from the industry (competitors, start-ups, suppliers, etc.) and academic worlds (universities and technology centres, etc.)
Both companies verbally agreed to cooperate for the project and the written agreement will soon be contracted for the efficiency. When the project will be started, the cooperation results will be printed in report form and shared each other.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Saltlux Invites ISWC2007 Foreign Delegates to a Reception
Saltlux Inc., one of the leading Semantic web specialized company announced that foreign delegates to the 6th ISWC and the 2nd ASWC being help during November 11 through 15th at BEXCO in Busan will be welcomed to a reception. Saltlux is an Emerald Sponsor for the conference.
Saltlux is doing business in the field of semantics for the application into search, ubiquitous and intellectual mobile service as number one company in Asia.
Delegates from DERI Galway of Ireland, ontoprise GmbH of Germany, Franz Inc. of U.S.A., Keio University of Japan and other world renowned institutions has accepted to attend to the Saltlux’s reception that will be held in the afternoon of November 11th at the venue of the conference.
The key members for the SUPER (Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between EnteRprises) Project and LARKC (the LARge Knowledge Collider) Project will also be attending to the conference. These two projects are to be enforce in full scale.
Saltlux’s plan is to discuss on the sharing the information, expanding the semantic technology and commercialization during this conference and reception period. Saltlux wants to draw a roadmap of the discussion topics.
Saltlux will operates a demonstration booth where they show demonstration of semantic products and a poster session on a new system of OPTIMA (Ontology Population Tool based on Information extraction and MAtching) together with ETRI.
Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux will be a General Person in the session of “Semantic Web in Use” at the conference.
Saltlux is doing business in the field of semantics for the application into search, ubiquitous and intellectual mobile service as number one company in Asia.
Delegates from DERI Galway of Ireland, ontoprise GmbH of Germany, Franz Inc. of U.S.A., Keio University of Japan and other world renowned institutions has accepted to attend to the Saltlux’s reception that will be held in the afternoon of November 11th at the venue of the conference.
The key members for the SUPER (Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between EnteRprises) Project and LARKC (the LARge Knowledge Collider) Project will also be attending to the conference. These two projects are to be enforce in full scale.
Saltlux’s plan is to discuss on the sharing the information, expanding the semantic technology and commercialization during this conference and reception period. Saltlux wants to draw a roadmap of the discussion topics.
Saltlux will operates a demonstration booth where they show demonstration of semantic products and a poster session on a new system of OPTIMA (Ontology Population Tool based on Information extraction and MAtching) together with ETRI.
Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux will be a General Person in the session of “Semantic Web in Use” at the conference.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Saltlux participates to NAKE2007
Saltlux Inc, the number one company in Semantic and information mining technologies is participating to the NAKE2007 (The National Archives of Korea Expo 2007) being held in SETEC Convention Hall located near to the Hang-nye-ul Station of Seoul Metro subway from November 1st (Thursday) through 3rd (Saturday).
Name of the convention: The National Archives Korea Expo 2007-10-29
Period of convention: November 1st ~November 3rd, 2007
Venue: SETEC Convention Hall located near to Hang-nye-ul Station of Seoul Metro Subway
Hosted by : The National Institute of Archives
Supervised by: Korean Cooperation of the Archives Management
Sponsored by: Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Industry and natural resources, Ministry of Information and Communication, Jungang Ilbo, ET Times
Name of the convention: The National Archives Korea Expo 2007-10-29
Period of convention: November 1st ~November 3rd, 2007
Venue: SETEC Convention Hall located near to Hang-nye-ul Station of Seoul Metro Subway
Hosted by : The National Institute of Archives
Supervised by: Korean Cooperation of the Archives Management
Sponsored by: Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Industry and natural resources, Ministry of Information and Communication, Jungang Ilbo, ET Times
Saltlux will have an Emerald Sponsorship and Poster Reporting Session in ISWC/ASWC2007
Saltlux Inc., one of the global leaders in Semantic technology will have an Emerald Sponsorship for ISWC/ASWC2007 which is being held at BEXCO of Busan, Korea, and November 11th through 15th.
Saltlux will have a porter session and operates a demonstration booth all through the conference period. All the delegates and participants may enjoy the poster show and demonstration of Saltlux products. Mr. Tony (Kyung-il) Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux will be chairing for the session of ‘Semantic Web in Use’ in the conference.
Saltlux will have a porter session and operates a demonstration booth all through the conference period. All the delegates and participants may enjoy the poster show and demonstration of Saltlux products. Mr. Tony (Kyung-il) Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux will be chairing for the session of ‘Semantic Web in Use’ in the conference.
[Article of the month] Revolution of Search Technology, Search 2.0 by Saltlux Inc. October Issue of Monthly Magazine {Management and Computer}
Starting from the year 2000 after the internet the dissemination of internet, the user oriented service paradigm was to change based on the sense of web 2.0 value rooted in the participation, share and opening. And this means that the web 2.0 and the new IT paradigm readily and greatly influence to industry structures and business models in general. The web environment is quickly develops simultaneously together with the market paradigm change, and the web as platform, Web 2.0 is in the center where the user directly participates to the service and create new business model.
Web 2.0 enabled formation of prosumers group together with the appearance of living cultures that seek after the open information share system, interest and fun based on the creation of active involvement value at the user’s point of view. The industrial system at the supplier’s point of view has changed to multi-item, trifle quantity based on the Long-tail Principle escaped from the Pareto Principle.
The platform that means the technology based on the “Production and Share” enables the user’s registration of self produced contents into web an share them with everyone. Rights to produce and share have been expanded to the public
At the user interface point of view, the functions like RIA(Rich Internet Application), AJAX and Widget that provide more familiar and rich UI and experiences have been brought into relief. And the methodology point of view, it has brought user participation and created new value like UGC (UCC) and business model. The web has also developed into platform, and the new conceptual environment like OpenAPI, Mash- up, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), and SaaS (Software as a Service) that consist the service ecosystem have been secured as new position.
Search engine market has also been developed speedily together with the changes in the Web 2.0 and enterprise market to meet with the user’s desire to change. Currently search services are known to be developed to 3rd generation. Simple links to the contents like Yahoo and AltaVista and the early stage internet that supplies keyword based search are called the first generation search. In this stage the information search is through keyword based method, however, the accuracy and the reliability of the search results were very low. For the complement of these weaknesses the page rank algorithm of link analysis that shows high number of page linkage, reliability and accuracy.
Search 2.0 vs. Web 2.0
Google has started services based on the page link algorithm.
We call this the second stage search. However, regardless of the reappearance of new generation search service a new era when the reproducibility and accuracy were focused, users should add an effort to research the information from the garbage data. To resolve this issue the search companies should have attempted a new information search services. In the course of this attempt a new trend like above mentioned web 2.0 has been appeared and various types of search including the strengthened UI, classification and clustering of documents, intellectually and individually specialized search have been developed. This is called ‘revolution of search’, 3rd generation search or search 2.0 era.
Participating and sharing, distribution based web2.0, text mining and semantic technology have been fused into Search 2.0 which deals with enterprise market that rises to the surface as a substitute to quickly changing business environment, and supports environment of SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) and extended to SaaS(Software as a Service) business model, the new distribution method of software.
While RIA, AJAX technologies of Web 2.0 promote the user experiences the old search technology showed lack of substitution to this web 2.0 trends and show various issues described below.
- Inferior accessibility because of the process of too many search results - Unspecified search to contents verification such as UCC and blog.- Inability of needed information from the contents.- Unable to reflect the user experiences to search.- Unspecified search for individuals.- Linkage inability to mash-up through Open API between open search and other searches.- Inability of support the platform conversion of search for web as a platform.
Because of the above mentioned current issues the importance of the key Search 2.0 functions have been increased as new issues in the web 2.0 environment of participation, sharing and opening.
Rising of Search 2.0
Environmental changes of web 2.0 and enterprise market together with the changes in the market paradigm have created new customer conceptual needs. And this shows the technological limitation of current search system that could not follow the new trends. Especially, the appearance of Search 2.0 upto the front line develops rapidly because the ‘Search’, one of the cores among 6 elements (SLATES) for the enterprise knowledge management paradigm mentioned by Prof. McAfee performs a very important role in the basic concept of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0
In addition, new developers who put up Search 2.0 to the front line try to challenge to the difficult subjects of unnecessary information overflow of most of the search engines that scatters information ‘too much’ which is different from what the needed search results of user. These developers try to restore the order to simple and indiscreet search method taking information wherever there are any of the keywords. The concept is to easily find the needed information without searching every individual result after automatic analysis in a short time and display by categories.
In case of semantic based search, Hakia and Powerset understand the queries searcher input and carry out semantic based search. Practically it provides better search results than Google for the relatively complex queries. It is especially excellent in the intensive subjects like pharmaceutical, legal, financial, scientific, literary fields of study. Rollyo, Swicki, Del.cio.us of user participating types provide services to users for their share and use of search role and bookmark. Vivismo and Ask that are characterized by clustering provide a search function that classifies the search results into new categories based on language and statistical analysis.
Together with these Yahoo Mindset and Collarity accomplish the advanced role of Search 2.0 through intent driven methods and individual search. As seen in the above case, Search 2.0 provides function like user participation, understanding the users’ search intent, automatic clustering of search results, automatic classification and individualization through the compounded technologies of strengthened functions in the current information search with the text mining and semantic technology. The new trend of search technology enables to countermeasure to quickly changing Web 2.0 paradigm and IT environment, and also enables to adapt to Enterprise 2.0 environment of enterprise environmental change.
Service Standard of Search 2.0
The most important service standard of Search 2.0 should be to level up the ability of discovery of related contents for users. This should be focused how to implement the search function in relation to the principles of the search functions. In other words, this means that the Search 2.0 provides real search findability easily in accordance with the hidden user’s intention apart from search focus of the general information exposure.
Secondly, Search 2.0 should be able to search the data from the web in general and the huge serve net. Unlimited category of search is as important as the search results.
Thirdly, search in various form of input including keyword, phrase, query language and parameter. It has to secure the accessibility by users in any ways.
Fourthly, search target contents should be processed and used to meet the user needs
The fifth, search results should immediately be provided at the user’s demand. All the search target contents should be to user oriented.
The sixth, it should provide advanced ranking according to the user participation and advanced UI according to the search results.
User participation and user experience oriented structure is also an important service standard in Search 2.0. As mentioned above Web 2.0 has changed the web paradigm through participation sharing and opening. So that the search in Web 2.0 made Search 2.0 to be changed the paradigm from 3S (Store, Search, Sort) to 4S+1D (3S+Share+Discoverry).
That is to say, a new environment as a service is in construction by appearance of search function to the front. Accordingly, various Web 2.0 elements such as user participation ranking, individualization, construction of platform, OpenAPI/Mash-up and so on are expressed within the Search 2.0. It is forecasted that Search 2.0 together with the Web 2.0 paradigm will be developed further through verification, improvement of search algorithm, and application of innovative search UI via preprocess to query and information source process.
Appearance of Enterprise 2.0
The collective intelligent of sharing and participation oriented customers and market is requested to change into the open and innovative soft organization from closed organization. Professor McAfee of Harvard proclaimed a new concept of Enterprise 2.0. Enterprise 2.0 could be defined as a new social software platform that is used in and between enterprises. It creates new value beyond the new opportunity through the organically integration of culture, process, and technology in and out of the enterprises. Hence, Enterprise 2.0 needed 6 structural elements of SLATES for the new enterprise management paradigm through utilizing the core tool of Enterprise such as social media, WiKi and RSS together with SOA, SaaS and Ajax. The said 6 elements are Search, Links, Authoring, Tags, Extension, and Signals.
As described above, the enterprise software environment where the top-down type of service system realization and participation of obligation were forced to do is being changed to the environment that creates new value through unforced participation and sharing. The typical example of environmental change is the Enterprise 2.0 described above. Enterprise 2.0 is started to be discussed in Korea while it is well established as preferred core keyword among IT specific blogers. Enterprise 2.0 is closely related to Web 2.0. That is to say, “Shouldn’t there be something changes like what the Web 2.0 does and shouldn’t this change be influential to the enterprise solutions and in the enterprise services?” In blog and WiKi, the process for the creation of report from the stage that the user uploads articles, messages and work files into the software. Likewise, it is attempted to actualize the elements by the technologies used in Web 2.0. This actualization was not easy in the software of current platform.
Groupware and portal software with functions of WiKi and social bookmark will be introduced within this year by key software venders such as MS SharePoint and IBM Enterprise WiKi. Cooperative works in social software in the Enterprise 2.0 environment are extremely human oriented works. The more, relationship with various interested parties in and out of enterprise and working processes are accumulated. A big business opportunity to improve the productivity and innovation could be expected if the continuity and relationship would be visualized. In other words, it is for sure that it could get more value than Web 2.0 if communication and cooperation of in and out of enterprise with customers and vendors would be realized. Thus, the introduction of new IT enterprise environment such as SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) and SaaS(Software as a Service) is expect to show further improved IT business future forming the center of the Enterprise 2.0 market.
Introduction of SOA and SaaS
Flexibility is a ‘must’ for the performance of on demand business that reacts against the outside changes and rapidly alters the business through security of business flexibility. SOA is the environment that provides infrastructure which enables business flexibility in the on demand operation environment. With SOA enterprise may build a system that flexibly deals with environmental changes and enhances the competitiveness. It is not easy, however, to satisfy the business flexibility by the current IT system only. Being different from the past, present business environment is so quickly changed that existing IT system could not follow. And it would be the key factor to build the IT system so flexibly. Accordingly, different paradigm to the traditional IT system is needed, and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is the outcome of the needed paradigm.
SOA is an IT strategy organized with mutually operational standard based services where enterprise application contained individual functions are quickly assembled and reusable according to mobile business needs. SOA utilizing companies are experiencing key benefits through construction of enterprise IT by service oriented but not application oriented, and the trend is to accept the Service Oriented Architecture to develop the new advanced service to maximize the business opportunity and transfer it in reliable method.
Software business model that is so far classified by the CD ROM types according to license, delivery method and partner is being very quickly changed in accordance with the appearance of ‘SaaS(Software As A Service)’.
‘SaaS’ is focused as a new trend of software industry that is controlled by service that is different from general product oriented software business model. In brief, SaaS is the way that user pays the cost as it is used through the installed web browser in server computer after the software installation.
In one word, ‘As a transaction based model, SaaS is a transaction rate style service where user will pay for the number of transactions.’ The recent wave of Web 2.0 and connectivity of SaaS are closely related. In the future Web is not solution that resolves the web problems but will be developed as a harmonizing application between solutions.
Gartner forecasted that in 2011 25%of the new enterprise software will be provided as SaaS style and IDC has foreseen 17%of the CRM market will be shared by SaaS in on demand Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) market that is forecasted a 31% growth.
Global companies such as Google, MS, SalesForce.Com and Oracle are already seek new strategy being escaped from existing way of software sales. And because of the activities of these big enterprises categories and structures of the software industry will be reshuffled and expanded rapidly with web.
Search 2.0 in Enterprise Market
Together with entry of SOA and SaaS systems to the market the desire to install search system with similar satisfactory has increased through the introduction of concept of Web 2.0 by enterprise. This desire is being connected to an attempt for the integration of information search, information retrieval and multiple application of mash-up and for the security of economic feasibility and productivity through opening, sharing and participating and SOA based search platform that are the concepts of Web 2.0.
As explained Enterprise Search 2.0 may be defined as platform based search service that provides high quality search service at high productivity and economic feasibility that are needed in the quickly changing business environment. Platform basis mentioned here means that developmental and operational systems which enables quickly at low cost the search related services such as information retrieval, information search and mash-up. Enterprise search 2.0 will bring the best customer value regardless time and place being under connection with various IT business solutions.
Introduction of the new search technology to the market will be remained as an issue in the IT market as experienced in enterprise environment of Search 2.0 study cases and Web 2.0 paradigm. In one words Search 2.0 is ‘service oriented intellectual search platform’.
It is a new search platform that provides the best benefit to user through the 3 key functions of ‘Search as a Service’, ‘Intelligent Search’ and ‘Search as a Platform’.
Search 2.0 will provides rich experiences together with accurate search to users through adoption of technologies leading the current IT environment such as Search ++. Text Mining, Semantic, Web 2.0, SOA and so on, and will give economic feasibility to the users. In addition Search2.0 will bring to the users together with the economic feasibility to users by reduction of technology construction cost through expanded satisfaction, interest, integration, expandability, reusability based on the rich experiences as accurate high quality new generation information search technology.
There are various opinions in the search engine industry on how the web search would be changed in the new future. MSN forecasts search engine user interface would be significantly changed while Google advocates basic technological change would become more important and Yahoo says it would be forecasted that there would be a significant changes in social search systems. Likewise, leading search service companies concludes that the current search systems are not effective to manage the changes of user paradigm and enterprise environment and that search system will have to change and Search 2.0 will be the final destination of the search system. Appearance of search platform made based on technological know-how accumulated on the new search trend has been necessary. The business application through the search platform will be adapted to user and enterprise environment for the enterprise search/analysis system construction, web based search service business, mobile/ubiquitous application business. And the search platform is forecasted to do a leading role for the convenient and developed up-to-dated construction of IT environment.
Web 2.0 enabled formation of prosumers group together with the appearance of living cultures that seek after the open information share system, interest and fun based on the creation of active involvement value at the user’s point of view. The industrial system at the supplier’s point of view has changed to multi-item, trifle quantity based on the Long-tail Principle escaped from the Pareto Principle.
The platform that means the technology based on the “Production and Share” enables the user’s registration of self produced contents into web an share them with everyone. Rights to produce and share have been expanded to the public
At the user interface point of view, the functions like RIA(Rich Internet Application), AJAX and Widget that provide more familiar and rich UI and experiences have been brought into relief. And the methodology point of view, it has brought user participation and created new value like UGC (UCC) and business model. The web has also developed into platform, and the new conceptual environment like OpenAPI, Mash- up, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), and SaaS (Software as a Service) that consist the service ecosystem have been secured as new position.
Search engine market has also been developed speedily together with the changes in the Web 2.0 and enterprise market to meet with the user’s desire to change. Currently search services are known to be developed to 3rd generation. Simple links to the contents like Yahoo and AltaVista and the early stage internet that supplies keyword based search are called the first generation search. In this stage the information search is through keyword based method, however, the accuracy and the reliability of the search results were very low. For the complement of these weaknesses the page rank algorithm of link analysis that shows high number of page linkage, reliability and accuracy.
Search 2.0 vs. Web 2.0
Google has started services based on the page link algorithm.
We call this the second stage search. However, regardless of the reappearance of new generation search service a new era when the reproducibility and accuracy were focused, users should add an effort to research the information from the garbage data. To resolve this issue the search companies should have attempted a new information search services. In the course of this attempt a new trend like above mentioned web 2.0 has been appeared and various types of search including the strengthened UI, classification and clustering of documents, intellectually and individually specialized search have been developed. This is called ‘revolution of search’, 3rd generation search or search 2.0 era.
Participating and sharing, distribution based web2.0, text mining and semantic technology have been fused into Search 2.0 which deals with enterprise market that rises to the surface as a substitute to quickly changing business environment, and supports environment of SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) and extended to SaaS(Software as a Service) business model, the new distribution method of software.
While RIA, AJAX technologies of Web 2.0 promote the user experiences the old search technology showed lack of substitution to this web 2.0 trends and show various issues described below.
- Inferior accessibility because of the process of too many search results - Unspecified search to contents verification such as UCC and blog.- Inability of needed information from the contents.- Unable to reflect the user experiences to search.- Unspecified search for individuals.- Linkage inability to mash-up through Open API between open search and other searches.- Inability of support the platform conversion of search for web as a platform.
Because of the above mentioned current issues the importance of the key Search 2.0 functions have been increased as new issues in the web 2.0 environment of participation, sharing and opening.
Rising of Search 2.0
Environmental changes of web 2.0 and enterprise market together with the changes in the market paradigm have created new customer conceptual needs. And this shows the technological limitation of current search system that could not follow the new trends. Especially, the appearance of Search 2.0 upto the front line develops rapidly because the ‘Search’, one of the cores among 6 elements (SLATES) for the enterprise knowledge management paradigm mentioned by Prof. McAfee performs a very important role in the basic concept of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0
In addition, new developers who put up Search 2.0 to the front line try to challenge to the difficult subjects of unnecessary information overflow of most of the search engines that scatters information ‘too much’ which is different from what the needed search results of user. These developers try to restore the order to simple and indiscreet search method taking information wherever there are any of the keywords. The concept is to easily find the needed information without searching every individual result after automatic analysis in a short time and display by categories.
In case of semantic based search, Hakia and Powerset understand the queries searcher input and carry out semantic based search. Practically it provides better search results than Google for the relatively complex queries. It is especially excellent in the intensive subjects like pharmaceutical, legal, financial, scientific, literary fields of study. Rollyo, Swicki, Del.cio.us of user participating types provide services to users for their share and use of search role and bookmark. Vivismo and Ask that are characterized by clustering provide a search function that classifies the search results into new categories based on language and statistical analysis.
Together with these Yahoo Mindset and Collarity accomplish the advanced role of Search 2.0 through intent driven methods and individual search. As seen in the above case, Search 2.0 provides function like user participation, understanding the users’ search intent, automatic clustering of search results, automatic classification and individualization through the compounded technologies of strengthened functions in the current information search with the text mining and semantic technology. The new trend of search technology enables to countermeasure to quickly changing Web 2.0 paradigm and IT environment, and also enables to adapt to Enterprise 2.0 environment of enterprise environmental change.
Service Standard of Search 2.0
The most important service standard of Search 2.0 should be to level up the ability of discovery of related contents for users. This should be focused how to implement the search function in relation to the principles of the search functions. In other words, this means that the Search 2.0 provides real search findability easily in accordance with the hidden user’s intention apart from search focus of the general information exposure.
Secondly, Search 2.0 should be able to search the data from the web in general and the huge serve net. Unlimited category of search is as important as the search results.
Thirdly, search in various form of input including keyword, phrase, query language and parameter. It has to secure the accessibility by users in any ways.
Fourthly, search target contents should be processed and used to meet the user needs
The fifth, search results should immediately be provided at the user’s demand. All the search target contents should be to user oriented.
The sixth, it should provide advanced ranking according to the user participation and advanced UI according to the search results.
User participation and user experience oriented structure is also an important service standard in Search 2.0. As mentioned above Web 2.0 has changed the web paradigm through participation sharing and opening. So that the search in Web 2.0 made Search 2.0 to be changed the paradigm from 3S (Store, Search, Sort) to 4S+1D (3S+Share+Discoverry).
That is to say, a new environment as a service is in construction by appearance of search function to the front. Accordingly, various Web 2.0 elements such as user participation ranking, individualization, construction of platform, OpenAPI/Mash-up and so on are expressed within the Search 2.0. It is forecasted that Search 2.0 together with the Web 2.0 paradigm will be developed further through verification, improvement of search algorithm, and application of innovative search UI via preprocess to query and information source process.
Appearance of Enterprise 2.0
The collective intelligent of sharing and participation oriented customers and market is requested to change into the open and innovative soft organization from closed organization. Professor McAfee of Harvard proclaimed a new concept of Enterprise 2.0. Enterprise 2.0 could be defined as a new social software platform that is used in and between enterprises. It creates new value beyond the new opportunity through the organically integration of culture, process, and technology in and out of the enterprises. Hence, Enterprise 2.0 needed 6 structural elements of SLATES for the new enterprise management paradigm through utilizing the core tool of Enterprise such as social media, WiKi and RSS together with SOA, SaaS and Ajax. The said 6 elements are Search, Links, Authoring, Tags, Extension, and Signals.
As described above, the enterprise software environment where the top-down type of service system realization and participation of obligation were forced to do is being changed to the environment that creates new value through unforced participation and sharing. The typical example of environmental change is the Enterprise 2.0 described above. Enterprise 2.0 is started to be discussed in Korea while it is well established as preferred core keyword among IT specific blogers. Enterprise 2.0 is closely related to Web 2.0. That is to say, “Shouldn’t there be something changes like what the Web 2.0 does and shouldn’t this change be influential to the enterprise solutions and in the enterprise services?” In blog and WiKi, the process for the creation of report from the stage that the user uploads articles, messages and work files into the software. Likewise, it is attempted to actualize the elements by the technologies used in Web 2.0. This actualization was not easy in the software of current platform.
Groupware and portal software with functions of WiKi and social bookmark will be introduced within this year by key software venders such as MS SharePoint and IBM Enterprise WiKi. Cooperative works in social software in the Enterprise 2.0 environment are extremely human oriented works. The more, relationship with various interested parties in and out of enterprise and working processes are accumulated. A big business opportunity to improve the productivity and innovation could be expected if the continuity and relationship would be visualized. In other words, it is for sure that it could get more value than Web 2.0 if communication and cooperation of in and out of enterprise with customers and vendors would be realized. Thus, the introduction of new IT enterprise environment such as SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) and SaaS(Software as a Service) is expect to show further improved IT business future forming the center of the Enterprise 2.0 market.
Introduction of SOA and SaaS
Flexibility is a ‘must’ for the performance of on demand business that reacts against the outside changes and rapidly alters the business through security of business flexibility. SOA is the environment that provides infrastructure which enables business flexibility in the on demand operation environment. With SOA enterprise may build a system that flexibly deals with environmental changes and enhances the competitiveness. It is not easy, however, to satisfy the business flexibility by the current IT system only. Being different from the past, present business environment is so quickly changed that existing IT system could not follow. And it would be the key factor to build the IT system so flexibly. Accordingly, different paradigm to the traditional IT system is needed, and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is the outcome of the needed paradigm.
SOA is an IT strategy organized with mutually operational standard based services where enterprise application contained individual functions are quickly assembled and reusable according to mobile business needs. SOA utilizing companies are experiencing key benefits through construction of enterprise IT by service oriented but not application oriented, and the trend is to accept the Service Oriented Architecture to develop the new advanced service to maximize the business opportunity and transfer it in reliable method.
Software business model that is so far classified by the CD ROM types according to license, delivery method and partner is being very quickly changed in accordance with the appearance of ‘SaaS(Software As A Service)’.
‘SaaS’ is focused as a new trend of software industry that is controlled by service that is different from general product oriented software business model. In brief, SaaS is the way that user pays the cost as it is used through the installed web browser in server computer after the software installation.
In one word, ‘As a transaction based model, SaaS is a transaction rate style service where user will pay for the number of transactions.’ The recent wave of Web 2.0 and connectivity of SaaS are closely related. In the future Web is not solution that resolves the web problems but will be developed as a harmonizing application between solutions.
Gartner forecasted that in 2011 25%of the new enterprise software will be provided as SaaS style and IDC has foreseen 17%of the CRM market will be shared by SaaS in on demand Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) market that is forecasted a 31% growth.
Global companies such as Google, MS, SalesForce.Com and Oracle are already seek new strategy being escaped from existing way of software sales. And because of the activities of these big enterprises categories and structures of the software industry will be reshuffled and expanded rapidly with web.
Search 2.0 in Enterprise Market
Together with entry of SOA and SaaS systems to the market the desire to install search system with similar satisfactory has increased through the introduction of concept of Web 2.0 by enterprise. This desire is being connected to an attempt for the integration of information search, information retrieval and multiple application of mash-up and for the security of economic feasibility and productivity through opening, sharing and participating and SOA based search platform that are the concepts of Web 2.0.
As explained Enterprise Search 2.0 may be defined as platform based search service that provides high quality search service at high productivity and economic feasibility that are needed in the quickly changing business environment. Platform basis mentioned here means that developmental and operational systems which enables quickly at low cost the search related services such as information retrieval, information search and mash-up. Enterprise search 2.0 will bring the best customer value regardless time and place being under connection with various IT business solutions.
Introduction of the new search technology to the market will be remained as an issue in the IT market as experienced in enterprise environment of Search 2.0 study cases and Web 2.0 paradigm. In one words Search 2.0 is ‘service oriented intellectual search platform’.
It is a new search platform that provides the best benefit to user through the 3 key functions of ‘Search as a Service’, ‘Intelligent Search’ and ‘Search as a Platform’.
Search 2.0 will provides rich experiences together with accurate search to users through adoption of technologies leading the current IT environment such as Search ++. Text Mining, Semantic, Web 2.0, SOA and so on, and will give economic feasibility to the users. In addition Search2.0 will bring to the users together with the economic feasibility to users by reduction of technology construction cost through expanded satisfaction, interest, integration, expandability, reusability based on the rich experiences as accurate high quality new generation information search technology.
There are various opinions in the search engine industry on how the web search would be changed in the new future. MSN forecasts search engine user interface would be significantly changed while Google advocates basic technological change would become more important and Yahoo says it would be forecasted that there would be a significant changes in social search systems. Likewise, leading search service companies concludes that the current search systems are not effective to manage the changes of user paradigm and enterprise environment and that search system will have to change and Search 2.0 will be the final destination of the search system. Appearance of search platform made based on technological know-how accumulated on the new search trend has been necessary. The business application through the search platform will be adapted to user and enterprise environment for the enterprise search/analysis system construction, web based search service business, mobile/ubiquitous application business. And the search platform is forecasted to do a leading role for the convenient and developed up-to-dated construction of IT environment.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
IT Minute: New Service Finds Patches and Updates for You!
When wiki-based software guide ITerating launched earlier this year, the plan was simple: Create an editable directory of open source, commercial, and hosted software. Visitors use the site to research products, read and write consumer reviews, and compare features to make informed purchasing decisions. Now ITerating has added a unique feature to help make sure system administrators never miss an important patch or version update again.
Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of ITerating, says soon after the Web site launched, it became apparent that users wanted -- and needed -- a way to track current information about the software that is important to them. Tracking activity at hundreds of vendor Web sites on a regular basis just isn't feasible for a busy IT professional and developers at ITerating knew there had to be a better way. ITerating decided the answer was to develop a Web service that would connect to wide range of repositories and archives to look for the information automatically. To create this service, they worked with leaders of the Semantic Web community to combine several existing ontologies into a comprehensive vocabulary structure that powers the data collection. The result is a service that monitors over 17,000 software products for updates and patches.
Typically, applications check for updates on their own by connecting to a vendor Web site periodically and downloading whatever is new since the last check. Some apps, however, require users to watch for update notifications via email or the Web site, and it's easy for system administrators managing dozens or hundreds of apps to miss a critical patch.
With ITerating's new service, users simply subscribe for free to a product or category, and the site will notify you when a patch, update, or new version of your software is available.Currently users can subscribe by using an RDF reader but RSS feed capability is expected shortly.
"When we started the site, we decided to make it a wiki," says Vandenberghe. "Although people can add their own information, we assumed the bulk of the information would come from electronic import and that much of it should be automated, like feeds that people can subscribe to. We knew we needed [the service] not only for us, but the industry also needed it. Now we've built a foundation for updates using Semantic Web services, which lets the automated data services speak the same language, and combined it with the wiki format. We want to -- and can -- offer a software product guide that's always up-to-date."
By: Lisa Hoover
Source: http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/26639
Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of ITerating, says soon after the Web site launched, it became apparent that users wanted -- and needed -- a way to track current information about the software that is important to them. Tracking activity at hundreds of vendor Web sites on a regular basis just isn't feasible for a busy IT professional and developers at ITerating knew there had to be a better way. ITerating decided the answer was to develop a Web service that would connect to wide range of repositories and archives to look for the information automatically. To create this service, they worked with leaders of the Semantic Web community to combine several existing ontologies into a comprehensive vocabulary structure that powers the data collection. The result is a service that monitors over 17,000 software products for updates and patches.
Typically, applications check for updates on their own by connecting to a vendor Web site periodically and downloading whatever is new since the last check. Some apps, however, require users to watch for update notifications via email or the Web site, and it's easy for system administrators managing dozens or hundreds of apps to miss a critical patch.
With ITerating's new service, users simply subscribe for free to a product or category, and the site will notify you when a patch, update, or new version of your software is available.Currently users can subscribe by using an RDF reader but RSS feed capability is expected shortly.
"When we started the site, we decided to make it a wiki," says Vandenberghe. "Although people can add their own information, we assumed the bulk of the information would come from electronic import and that much of it should be automated, like feeds that people can subscribe to. We knew we needed [the service] not only for us, but the industry also needed it. Now we've built a foundation for updates using Semantic Web services, which lets the automated data services speak the same language, and combined it with the wiki format. We want to -- and can -- offer a software product guide that's always up-to-date."
By: Lisa Hoover
Source: http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/26639
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Saltlux Inc. earned GS Certification for Search 2.0 Platform.
Saltlux Inc (http://in2.saltlux.com), leader in Search 2.0 and semantic web technology market, announced that the GS(Good Software) Certification was given to its [IN2]DOR 4.0, the service oriented intelligent search platform on August 23rd.
GS Certification is one of the official certification that is given to good locally developed software for software quality improvement after a rigid tests and inspections on various evaluation items such as functionality, credibility and standard suitability by Korean Telecommunication Technology Association (TTA) since 2001.
[IN2]DOR 4.0 of Saltlux Inc. being search 2.0 based search platform provides reliable search results through application of automatic classification, automatic summarization and automatic clustering based on the text mining technology and semantic web technology. It significantly enhances the developmental productivity and utility of differentiated information service system and secures economic efficiency and scalability of the system through recycling of the service components. It also maximizes the service utilization through connection with Open API and Mash-up.
Because of the embedded intelligent search function for large capacity semantic based search and reasoning, accurate retrieval and intelligent search will be possible through semantic metadata attached to the contents. Search quality may be continuously enhanced through user involvement and automatic rank control function.
Because of the embedded automatic translation and summarization functions of Japanese, English in addition to Korean language, Search 2.0 Platform [IN2]DOR 4.0 enables the concurrent indexing in one index, and provides cross language search function that retrieves the target foreign documents when the query was in another language.Tony (Kyung-il) Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. said, “IT market and environment has been changed by new technologies and paradigm such as web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and semantic web. And these environmental changes support the growth of the search 2.0 industry through needs and expectations on the new search system. He continued, “Saltlux power of technology has been approved again by this GS Certification, and we will be the global leader in the search 2.0 market of future retrieval service industry.”
GS Certification is one of the official certification that is given to good locally developed software for software quality improvement after a rigid tests and inspections on various evaluation items such as functionality, credibility and standard suitability by Korean Telecommunication Technology Association (TTA) since 2001.
[IN2]DOR 4.0 of Saltlux Inc. being search 2.0 based search platform provides reliable search results through application of automatic classification, automatic summarization and automatic clustering based on the text mining technology and semantic web technology. It significantly enhances the developmental productivity and utility of differentiated information service system and secures economic efficiency and scalability of the system through recycling of the service components. It also maximizes the service utilization through connection with Open API and Mash-up.
Because of the embedded intelligent search function for large capacity semantic based search and reasoning, accurate retrieval and intelligent search will be possible through semantic metadata attached to the contents. Search quality may be continuously enhanced through user involvement and automatic rank control function.
Because of the embedded automatic translation and summarization functions of Japanese, English in addition to Korean language, Search 2.0 Platform [IN2]DOR 4.0 enables the concurrent indexing in one index, and provides cross language search function that retrieves the target foreign documents when the query was in another language.Tony (Kyung-il) Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. said, “IT market and environment has been changed by new technologies and paradigm such as web 2.0, enterprise 2.0 and semantic web. And these environmental changes support the growth of the search 2.0 industry through needs and expectations on the new search system. He continued, “Saltlux power of technology has been approved again by this GS Certification, and we will be the global leader in the search 2.0 market of future retrieval service industry.”
Monday, September 10, 2007
ET Club Member Company - Saltlux Story
Saltlux Inc. (http://in2.saltlux.com) is an ET Club Member company specialized in semantic web, the key for the web 2.0 era.
Search 2.0 searches accurate information through clearly catching the meaning of the user query sentence as a new paradigm targeting the intelligent knowledge information search service that is widely and quickly spread together with web 2.0 fever
The right role of the search 2.0 solution is to improve the value of information through the customized information search according to the user preference and collective intelligence. Through the search 2.0 based service, users could receive customized services for result summarization, classification, clustering, analysis and visualization. Through these services users could also be supplied easy to access information, utilization and sharing functions.
Saltlux is proactively preparing the marketing plan in the event of the launch of [IN2]DOR, the search 2.0 based platform reflecting the recent trends. After the Seminar on ‘Search 2.0 Seminar with a New Product Introduction’ on August 29, 2007 marketing team of the company has received may enquired for information on the new product.
Though demonstration Saltlux had the participants exposed to this innovative functions of the product in the seminar.
Saltlux plans to support the significant improvement of development productivity and utility of differentiated information service system through this new product with intelligent information mining and semantic web as key technologies. Saltlux further explains that it secures high economic feasibility and scalability through recycling of the service components.
Saltlux is not a new bourn company but has a 28 year history. It was established in 1976 as a company specialized in technical translation and DTP. Human Language Technology (HLT) Laboratory established in 2000 has worked to build a basement for the search solution in Saltlux. After a long period spent for translation software ‘IN2’ was developed as the first search engines in the company and [IN2]DOR, a platform meeting the needs for the search 2.0 era through continuous R&D activities.
Saltlux pays a great deal of efforts to develop the global market through its off-shore branch and liaison offices in China, Japan, U.S.A and EU.
In addition to Search 2.0 platform, Saltlux is continuously developing ubiquitous oriented intelligent individual media management technology. And Saltlux will be grown up as a knowledge information resource management specialized enterprise that shares and manage the knowledge.
Mr. Kyung-il Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux said, “It was not long ago when the one-man media information ownership became an issue by the key word of web 2.0. But now web 2.0 has been widely spread over the society.” He continued, “Unacquainted web 2.0 spirits became parts of our life via UCC and blogs and Saltlux wants to be the leading company who will supply the key solutions in the information sharing era.
ET News (August 31, 2007)
Search 2.0 searches accurate information through clearly catching the meaning of the user query sentence as a new paradigm targeting the intelligent knowledge information search service that is widely and quickly spread together with web 2.0 fever
The right role of the search 2.0 solution is to improve the value of information through the customized information search according to the user preference and collective intelligence. Through the search 2.0 based service, users could receive customized services for result summarization, classification, clustering, analysis and visualization. Through these services users could also be supplied easy to access information, utilization and sharing functions.
Saltlux is proactively preparing the marketing plan in the event of the launch of [IN2]DOR, the search 2.0 based platform reflecting the recent trends. After the Seminar on ‘Search 2.0 Seminar with a New Product Introduction’ on August 29, 2007 marketing team of the company has received may enquired for information on the new product.
Though demonstration Saltlux had the participants exposed to this innovative functions of the product in the seminar.
Saltlux plans to support the significant improvement of development productivity and utility of differentiated information service system through this new product with intelligent information mining and semantic web as key technologies. Saltlux further explains that it secures high economic feasibility and scalability through recycling of the service components.
Saltlux is not a new bourn company but has a 28 year history. It was established in 1976 as a company specialized in technical translation and DTP. Human Language Technology (HLT) Laboratory established in 2000 has worked to build a basement for the search solution in Saltlux. After a long period spent for translation software ‘IN2’ was developed as the first search engines in the company and [IN2]DOR, a platform meeting the needs for the search 2.0 era through continuous R&D activities.
Saltlux pays a great deal of efforts to develop the global market through its off-shore branch and liaison offices in China, Japan, U.S.A and EU.
In addition to Search 2.0 platform, Saltlux is continuously developing ubiquitous oriented intelligent individual media management technology. And Saltlux will be grown up as a knowledge information resource management specialized enterprise that shares and manage the knowledge.
Mr. Kyung-il Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux said, “It was not long ago when the one-man media information ownership became an issue by the key word of web 2.0. But now web 2.0 has been widely spread over the society.” He continued, “Unacquainted web 2.0 spirits became parts of our life via UCC and blogs and Saltlux wants to be the leading company who will supply the key solutions in the information sharing era.
ET News (August 31, 2007)
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Saltlux Search 2.0 Seminar finished with a great success
Saltlux Inc. (www.saltlux.com) today announced that the Saltlux Search 2.0 Seminar held on August 29 was finished in a great success. Originally the invitations were sent to 100 participants. However, the actual number of participants was over120 from various business entities, I/T business related organizations, multifarious government research and policy making organizations and others including university professors, students, mass communication, etc.
In the seminar the following papers were read by different speakers.
1. Evolution and Development of Search Engines: From Solution to Platform Based Service by Kyungil Tony Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux Inc.
2. Search 2.0 and Web 2.0 by Taesung Albert Ahn, Service Group Team leader, Saltlux.
3. Realization of Semantic Web in Search 2.0 by Kono Kim, Director, Saltlux.
4. Enterprise 2.0 by D. Y. Yum, Search Group Team Leader, Saltlux.
After these paper reading session, [IN2]DOR 4.0 product was introduce and the product performance was demonstrated by J. H. Ahn, Marketing Team Leader At the end of each paper reading session questions were called and discussed on a lively controversy.
Many participants told individually to Saltlux that they enjoyed the seminar and learned and understood what the Search 2.0, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and [IN2]DOR 4.0 product meant to them working in their organization.
On behalf of all the employees of Saltlux Inc., we would like to express our appreciations to every body who participated to the seminar and to every body who contributed to the discussion session at the end of each paper reading session.
Saltlux management would like to wish all the contents of the papers read in the seminar will contribute to the business development of the information search market.
In the seminar the following papers were read by different speakers.
1. Evolution and Development of Search Engines: From Solution to Platform Based Service by Kyungil Tony Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux Inc.
2. Search 2.0 and Web 2.0 by Taesung Albert Ahn, Service Group Team leader, Saltlux.
3. Realization of Semantic Web in Search 2.0 by Kono Kim, Director, Saltlux.
4. Enterprise 2.0 by D. Y. Yum, Search Group Team Leader, Saltlux.
After these paper reading session, [IN2]DOR 4.0 product was introduce and the product performance was demonstrated by J. H. Ahn, Marketing Team Leader At the end of each paper reading session questions were called and discussed on a lively controversy.
Many participants told individually to Saltlux that they enjoyed the seminar and learned and understood what the Search 2.0, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and [IN2]DOR 4.0 product meant to them working in their organization.
On behalf of all the employees of Saltlux Inc., we would like to express our appreciations to every body who participated to the seminar and to every body who contributed to the discussion session at the end of each paper reading session.
Saltlux management would like to wish all the contents of the papers read in the seminar will contribute to the business development of the information search market.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Saltlux Hosting Search 2.0 Seminar and New Product Launch Meeting.
Saltlux Inc.(www.Saltlux.com) announces today that she will be hosting a ‘Search 2.0 Seminar with a new product introduction’ on August 29, 2007 in the event of product launch of Search 2.0 based [IN2]DOR with the slogan of “Search 2.0: From Solution to Platform based Service”.
Search 2.0 is a new paradigm targeting intellectual information search that is rapidly spread over the world being engaged with the web 2.0. Search 2.0 is also performs accurate information search through clear understanding of user’s search objectives and the meaning of a query. It also enables to improve the value of the information through customized information search to meet with the user preference.
And the users will receive the user oriented services such as summarization, classification, clustering and analysis of the search results through the Search 2.0 based services. The users will also be provided the convenient access to information, application and sharing functions.
Saltlux will also introduce [IN2]DOR, the newly launched search 2.0 based platform in the same event. Through on-site demonstration of the “Search 2.0 Service,” users will learn direct and actual experiences to the various innovative functions of different product lines of [IN2]DOR.
Because of the core technologies of intellectual information mining and semantic web, [IN2]DOR significantly improves the development productivity and utility of various differentiated information service system , and secures high economical efficiency and scalability through recycling of the components.
Especially, [IN2]DOR provides widget based strong user interface and supports business models of ‘Service Oriented Architecture’ and ‘Software as a Service’ for the realization of the Enterprise 2.0.
Admission to the seminar is free but pre-registration is needed for first 100 persons.
Refer to http://www.saltlux.com; http://in2.saltlux.com for detail information and registration.
Search 2.0 is a new paradigm targeting intellectual information search that is rapidly spread over the world being engaged with the web 2.0. Search 2.0 is also performs accurate information search through clear understanding of user’s search objectives and the meaning of a query. It also enables to improve the value of the information through customized information search to meet with the user preference.
And the users will receive the user oriented services such as summarization, classification, clustering and analysis of the search results through the Search 2.0 based services. The users will also be provided the convenient access to information, application and sharing functions.
Saltlux will also introduce [IN2]DOR, the newly launched search 2.0 based platform in the same event. Through on-site demonstration of the “Search 2.0 Service,” users will learn direct and actual experiences to the various innovative functions of different product lines of [IN2]DOR.
Because of the core technologies of intellectual information mining and semantic web, [IN2]DOR significantly improves the development productivity and utility of various differentiated information service system , and secures high economical efficiency and scalability through recycling of the components.
Especially, [IN2]DOR provides widget based strong user interface and supports business models of ‘Service Oriented Architecture’ and ‘Software as a Service’ for the realization of the Enterprise 2.0.
Admission to the seminar is free but pre-registration is needed for first 100 persons.
Refer to http://www.saltlux.com; http://in2.saltlux.com for detail information and registration.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Saltlux is listed 200 finalists for the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards 2007
Saltlux Inc. (http://www.saltlux.com/) announces today that ‘The list of 200 finalists for the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards 2007’ includes Saltlux for the first time. Saltlux is one of a few companies selected among 54 applicants from Korea.
The 100 winners for the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards 2007 will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, China, taking place from August 29-31.
Mr. Tony Lee (CEO and the President of Saltlux) says, “This must be one of the evidences of global recognition on our reputation in the R&D and business power in the market with our proprietary products and services.” He continues “We are very much proud of being selected as one of the Asia’s 200. And we will have to make a big celebration when we will be included in the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards 2007.”
Saltlux Inc. is one of the leading company globally recognized in the deveolopment of the technology for the information retrieval and text mining, and the semantics. Within this month Saltlux plans to launch Search 2.0, a new search paradigm aiming the itellectual information retrieval services.
For the announcement detail of the Red Herring 100 Asia Award 2007, please click here: http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/index.html.
The 100 winners for the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards 2007 will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, China, taking place from August 29-31.
Mr. Tony Lee (CEO and the President of Saltlux) says, “This must be one of the evidences of global recognition on our reputation in the R&D and business power in the market with our proprietary products and services.” He continues “We are very much proud of being selected as one of the Asia’s 200. And we will have to make a big celebration when we will be included in the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards 2007.”
Saltlux Inc. is one of the leading company globally recognized in the deveolopment of the technology for the information retrieval and text mining, and the semantics. Within this month Saltlux plans to launch Search 2.0, a new search paradigm aiming the itellectual information retrieval services.
For the announcement detail of the Red Herring 100 Asia Award 2007, please click here: http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/index.html.
Red Herring Releases List of 200 Finalists for the "Red Herring 100 Asia" Awards 2007
Red Herring Releases List of 200 Finalists for the "Red Herring 100 Asia" Awards 2007
The 100 Most-Promising Private Technology Ventures to Be Honored at Event in Hong Kong, China
San Francisco, CA, August 8, 2007 ? Red Herring Magazine has announced its selection of the 200 Asia-Pacific region finalists, forerunners of the prestigious Red Herring 100 Asia 2007 awards, which will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, China, on August 29-31.
The Red Herring editorial team carefully selected the finalists based on quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem. The 200 finalists are based in 16 countries/regions including China, India, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Australia and Vietnam. The names of the 200 companies short-listed as finalists for the "Red Herring 100 Asia 2007" can be found online at http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/index.html
"The 200 finalists we selected from across 16 countries and regions are all excellent contenders," said Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring. "They are exceptional companies who thrive on innovation and strongly define the important role of technology in Asia’s economy and throughout the world."
The winning 100 companies will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, China, taking place from August 29-31. This 3-day event features keynote discussions, roundtable panels and networking opportunities for participants to make connections and learn what it takes to achieve the best in business and technology in Asia.
Distinguished speakers on Red Herring 100 Asia ‘07 include Richard Li, Chairman of PCCW; John Chen, Chairman of Sybase; Victor Koo, CEO of Youku.com (former President of Sohu.com); James Mi, Head of Corporate Development APAC, Google; John Hummelstad, APAC Director of Emerging Technology, & Venture Capital, Microsoft; and many others. For a full list of Red Herring 100 Asia speakers, visit http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/speakers.html
Request your invitation at http://www.herringevents.com/Asia07/index.html
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology research, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit http://www.redherring.com/
Check the List: http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/redherring100.html
The 100 Most-Promising Private Technology Ventures to Be Honored at Event in Hong Kong, China
San Francisco, CA, August 8, 2007 ? Red Herring Magazine has announced its selection of the 200 Asia-Pacific region finalists, forerunners of the prestigious Red Herring 100 Asia 2007 awards, which will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, China, on August 29-31.
The Red Herring editorial team carefully selected the finalists based on quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem. The 200 finalists are based in 16 countries/regions including China, India, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Australia and Vietnam. The names of the 200 companies short-listed as finalists for the "Red Herring 100 Asia 2007" can be found online at http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/index.html
"The 200 finalists we selected from across 16 countries and regions are all excellent contenders," said Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief of Red Herring. "They are exceptional companies who thrive on innovation and strongly define the important role of technology in Asia’s economy and throughout the world."
The winning 100 companies will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, China, taking place from August 29-31. This 3-day event features keynote discussions, roundtable panels and networking opportunities for participants to make connections and learn what it takes to achieve the best in business and technology in Asia.
Distinguished speakers on Red Herring 100 Asia ‘07 include Richard Li, Chairman of PCCW; John Chen, Chairman of Sybase; Victor Koo, CEO of Youku.com (former President of Sohu.com); James Mi, Head of Corporate Development APAC, Google; John Hummelstad, APAC Director of Emerging Technology, & Venture Capital, Microsoft; and many others. For a full list of Red Herring 100 Asia speakers, visit http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/speakers.html
Request your invitation at http://www.herringevents.com/Asia07/index.html
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology research, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit http://www.redherring.com/
Check the List: http://www.herringevents.com/asia07/redherring100.html
Semantic Annotations on CC Wiki
We have just implemented Semantic MediaWiki on our wiki. SMW allows additionnal markup into the wiki-text and improve the overall quality and consistency of the wiki. It may appear to make things more complicated but it actually makes easier for users to find more information. Using SMW’s own inline querying tools, a page could then be created that lists almost everything you want.
When you add contents as for now, please use semantic annotations. We have created special pages for you that will help you to easily do that.At the moment, you can find instructions for Books, Content Curators and Content Registry.Do not hesitate also to use our forms, there are much more easier.
From: http://techblog.creativecommons.org/2007/08/09/semantic-annotations-on-cc-wiki/
When you add contents as for now, please use semantic annotations. We have created special pages for you that will help you to easily do that.At the moment, you can find instructions for Books, Content Curators and Content Registry.Do not hesitate also to use our forms, there are much more easier.
From: http://techblog.creativecommons.org/2007/08/09/semantic-annotations-on-cc-wiki/
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
The Semantic Properties of Animal Vocalizations
It is well-known and widely accepted, that the main attribute which distinguishes human kind from other living creatures is language. But animal vocalizations also do contain semantic properties. Let's consider several examples. Gibbons are several species of our closest surviving non-human kin. Like humans, they communicate in various ways, including posturing and gesturing, but the most language-like of their communication is their system of calls. Investigations of the gibbons of northern Thailand have shown that these gibbons have a stock of at least nine different calls. One of these is emitted typically when the group is surprised by a possible enemy and takes the form of a high pitched shout; it is often repeated by those who hear it and all act accordingly in order to avoid the danger of the enemy. An entirely different sort of call occurs in connection with friendly approaches among young gibbons, and reinforces the notion of play. A third call seems to serve to keep the members of a group close enough together as they move through the woods in search of food. The most important property of this system of communication is its lack of flexibility. Whatever the exact number of calls is, it is finite and small. Whilst any one of the calls can be varied in loudness or in the number of repetitions, no matter what situation a gibbon may encounter, its vocal reaction is constrained to be one of this small finite number: a gibbon does not react to a new situation by producing a new call or putting together two or more of the calls already available. It has been suggested that language grew out of a primate call system, like the ones used by apes today and the one I have described that is used by gibbons. It is assumed that humans started out with a simple set of cries in which each one meant something different, such as, "Danger!" or "Follow me!". These cries gradually became more elaborate and eventually evolved into language. A possible intermediate stage is seen in the cries of the vervet monkey. This monkey has several alarm calls which distinguish between different types of danger. The chutter announces the presence of a snake, the rraup gives warning of an eagle, a chirp is used for lions and leopards and the less panic-stricken utterance uh signals the presence of a spotted hyena. According to some, it is a very short step from an alarm call warning of a poisonous snake to using the chutter as a 'word' signifying a poisonous snake. However, another interpretation of these signals is possible; a distinguishing between the intensity of different types of danger. However an experiment in which a concealed loudspeaker plated recordings of the alarm calls showed that when each sound was heard, a specific response was seen. For example, when they heard the chutter, the vervets stood on their hind legs and looked around for a snake. This implies that the monkeys clearly have a special signal for each type of enemy; each signal has semantic properties.It is perhaps unfair to concentrate on primates. Compared with these, bees and dolphins have extremely sophisticated communication systems. Whilst the majority of bee communication is achieved through dance rather a system of sound signals, I feel that there is some evidence in this example that casts some degree of doubt on the supposed human-specificity of language. When a worker bee finds a source of nectar, it returns to the hive and performs a dance. It has been shown that certain features of the dance transmit information about the location of the source of nectar: one feature specifies the direction of the source from the hive in relation to the position of the sun, another specifies its distance. It has been decided that these dances are performed and understood on the basis of instinct: the semantic conventions of the system are innate, and do not have to be learned or taught. Using this system, a worker can report on a source of nectar at a location to which none of the colony has ever previously been. To a certain extent, therefore, the system is flexible.Whilst it appears that bees cannot communicate about anything except nectar – or, if they do, it is via other equally specialised small systems, the claim that bee dancing possesses creativity does not appear to be exaggerated since, at least in theory, an infinite amount of unpredictable and appropriate information relating to the parameters of direction and distance can be transmitted. However, the idea of verticality, for instance, expressed by the English word 'up' cannot be expressed, nor can complex thoughts and feelings present in human philosophy, literature and science. The difference in the creativity of the 'language' of the bee and human language is an important one, yet despite his claim for the exclusiveness of language creativity to humans, Chomsky explicitly recognises the possibility that certain ideas, concepts and feeling may well be inexpressible in human language. This situation mirrors the fact that there are many things which cannot be expressed in the 'language' of the bee.Like bees, dolphins do not have a 'creative' communication system in the human sense – even though they make underwater 'clicks' which are surprisingly sophisticated. These clicks are intermittent bursts of sound, each of which lasts less than a thousandth of a second, in frequencies beyond the range of human hearing. By listening for their echoes, a dolphin can find a tiny eel in a bed of mud or a tiny fish seventy metres away. The dolphin first sends out a very general click, and then progressively modifies it as it gets echoes back, so allowing it to get more and more accurate information. As far as we know, a dolphin's communication is restricted to the size and location of shapes, though a possibility is that a progressively modified click might end up being the 'name' for the object finally pinpointed; semantic properties for dolphin communication may evolve.Human language is a signaling system which uses sounds and this is a characteristic shared by a large number of animal systems. Animals that use vocal signals have a stock of basic sounds which vary according to their species. A cow has fewer than ten, a chicken has around twenty, dolphins and apes have between twenty and thirty and the impressive vervet monkey has thirty-six. In animal communication, there is frequently a connection, arguably semantic, between the signal and the message sent. Whilst most animals can use each basic sound only once or in very few simple combinations, human language works differently. Each language has a stock of phonemes which are similar in number to the basic sounds possessed by animals; usually between thirty and forty. The difference is that normally these phonemes are meaningless in isolation and only gain meaning when they are combined with other phonemes.So, whilst Chomsky's concept of creativity, the ability to produce novel utterances, seems not to be present in any natural communication system possessed by animals, all systems of communication, human or otherwise, appear to be innately guided. That is, a frog will inevitably croak, cows will inevitably moo and humans will inevitably talk. The important thing to realise is that, whilst there are many species for which vocalisations seem to have no solid semantic properties – a cat will purr to express happiness, there are some animal systems of communication, such as that of vervet monkeys, which arguably share with human the arbitrary nature of the connection between the signified and the signifier, developed by Saussure, and thus can be argued to have semantic properties.
From: http://asiannomdjun.blogspot.com/2007/08/semantic-properties-of-animal.html
From: http://asiannomdjun.blogspot.com/2007/08/semantic-properties-of-animal.html
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Ontology Instance Automatic Retrieval System Patented
Saltlux Inc., the Asia’s leading company for search 2.0 and semantic technology (www.saltlux.com) announces today the patent registration of ‘The System for the Ontology Instance Automatic Retrieval and Its Method’ jointly with KT Corp.
The patent describes the ontology, one of the key components for the semantic web technology proposed by W3C that leads the standardization of World Wide Web. This patent also describes the technical functions of automatic retrieval and creation of ontological instances from unstructured web documents in the internet and various databases at any time.
In the currently existing technology the user should directly access to the database of a certain site for the information retrieval, or should manually retrieve any needed information from an internet documents utilizing WRAPPER for which rules should be revised whenever the web document style changed because the WRAPPER is defined by the site regardless of the domain.
Saltlux emphasizes that patented automatic retrieval technology enables users to save time and cost for the documents retrieval. Information recycling due to this technology also enables the economic and easy creation of information .
Tony Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux, says: “This is a very advanced technology that retrieves and saves various information from internet in ubiquitous and next generation web environment. And we are very proud of having this patented technology applied to a national project of Korea.” Tony continues, “This invention will be positioned as one of a very important technology for the global semantic web.”
The patent describes the ontology, one of the key components for the semantic web technology proposed by W3C that leads the standardization of World Wide Web. This patent also describes the technical functions of automatic retrieval and creation of ontological instances from unstructured web documents in the internet and various databases at any time.
In the currently existing technology the user should directly access to the database of a certain site for the information retrieval, or should manually retrieve any needed information from an internet documents utilizing WRAPPER for which rules should be revised whenever the web document style changed because the WRAPPER is defined by the site regardless of the domain.
Saltlux emphasizes that patented automatic retrieval technology enables users to save time and cost for the documents retrieval. Information recycling due to this technology also enables the economic and easy creation of information .
Tony Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux, says: “This is a very advanced technology that retrieves and saves various information from internet in ubiquitous and next generation web environment. And we are very proud of having this patented technology applied to a national project of Korea.” Tony continues, “This invention will be positioned as one of a very important technology for the global semantic web.”
Monday, July 30, 2007
Human to Ontology Translation
Ontologies are formal computer scientific representations of knowledge. An ontology models the hierarchical (parent/child) relationships between concepts, and the cross-linking relationships between these concepts. For example, ontologies such as the FDA drugs database, MeSH, the NCI Thesaurus, and SNOMED can tell you that 'bupropion' is an aminoketone phenylethylamine derivative, it is an antidepressant, and it is an FDA approved drug. Therefore, once a computer receives some input and identifies the 'bupropion' concept in an ontology, there are many useful functions it can perform and inferences that it can make.
However, ontology designers (humans) are generally NOT attempting to help the computer interpret the wild and wolly free-text input that it receives from the real world. Even when a computer is talking to another computer, they may be using different encoding schemes (different ontologies). When talking to a human, the situation is even more complex because no one has even been able to get a human to adhere to a single coding scheme; we prefer to use language the way we have been using it all our lives.
So people designing and building medical information systems are left with an important problem. Our 'semantic fingerprinting' engine has been designed and developed to solve exactly this problem : identifying ontological concepts in real-world free-text human input. Other posts (Introducing Document DNA, Builts-in Synonyms) have discussed how this technology works. I'd like to take the remainder of this post to describe a couple of practical applications.
CCR Merging
The Continuity of Care Record is a specification developed for exchanging patient health information among providers. The idea is that as a patient moves from provider to provider, their CCR moves seamlessly with them. Each provider adds new information about new diagnoses, tests, drugs prescribed, elements of family history, etc. The meat of a CCR is these informational records. Each record is composed of a 'Text' name (the human readable name), and a 'Code', which identifies the record in the coding scheme (the ontology). You can see immediately what the problem is going to be with exchanging CCRs; there are many different coding schemes, with varying levels of completeness in the areas of drugs, diseases, procedures, signs and symptoms, etc. Suppose care provider A sends a CCR to B, who sends it to C, who sends it back to A. Suppose that B and C use different coding schemes than A for at least some of the information. How is A going to be able to tell which records in the CCR have changed? The Text and Codes may have changed, yet represent the same information.
The semantic fingerprint provides a robust way to compare the Text of two fields, and determine whether they are the same concept, unrelated concepts, or closely related concepts. In the first case, even though the Codes may be different, we can be sure that both CCRs are talking about the same thing, and choose whichever code we prefer. In the second case, we can be sure that the records are different. The semantic fingerprint can even help with the third case. Suppose a record goes out with the diagnosis of 'multiple sclerosis' and comes back with 'neuromyelitis optica'. In some ontologies, neuromyelitis optica is a child of multiple sclerosis. In other ontologies, it is a related disorder but not a child. We can prompt a physician to examine other information in the CCR, such as notes, to help disambiguate.
In any case, by changing the representation of the CCR from Text and Code fields to the semantic fingerprint, we can quickly identify the unchanged records and the new records, and we have a powerful tool to help disambiguate the records whose status is unclear.
Code Conversion
When providers standardize on different ontologies, a difficult translation problem arises. While each one of them has chosen an ontology to use internally, in order to communicate with each other they must be able to translate into other coding schemes.
Rather than developing a translator for each foreign coding scheme and trying to maintain it in the face of ambiguity and constant change, a provider can first translate to a semantic fingerprint (or use the semantic fingerprint as their native representation). Each bit in a semantic fingerprint can provide the code or codes for any of the source ontologies that comprise the semantic fingerprint model. Again, this capability is enabled by relying on the rigorous and extensive vocabulary of medicine to unify and segregate concepts from multiple ontologies based on their synonyms.
If the destination ontology does not contain a concept (SNOMED has the 'remittent-progressive multiple sclerosis' concept but MeSH does not; the FDA drug database contains 'AMBRISENTAN' but SNOMED does not), the system can either choose a more general concept that is available in the destination ontology ('multiple sclerosis', 'endothelin receptor antagonist'), or provide the concept in the source coding scheme, or take some alternative hybrid approach.
Concept Versioning
The body of medical knowledge is being constantly updated and revised. Guidelines are changed, new drug interactions and side effects are discovered, new drugs are approved and new indications are added to existing drugs. For this reason, as well as error correction and re-organization of existing concepts, medical ontologies are constantly changing; most are updated at least monthly, often weekly. Therefore any system which is ontology-based must be constantly revised and updated.
Each semantic fingerprint is based on a specific version. The changes between versions are available through the semantic fingerprint API, and each new version consists of a curated, consistent merging of the source ontologies. So rather than having to track and manage many ontology versions, a semantic fingerprint-based system simply stores the model version along with each fingerprinted record. When the model changes, the fingerprinted records which may have been affected can be incrementally updated.
However, ontology designers (humans) are generally NOT attempting to help the computer interpret the wild and wolly free-text input that it receives from the real world. Even when a computer is talking to another computer, they may be using different encoding schemes (different ontologies). When talking to a human, the situation is even more complex because no one has even been able to get a human to adhere to a single coding scheme; we prefer to use language the way we have been using it all our lives.
So people designing and building medical information systems are left with an important problem. Our 'semantic fingerprinting' engine has been designed and developed to solve exactly this problem : identifying ontological concepts in real-world free-text human input. Other posts (Introducing Document DNA, Builts-in Synonyms) have discussed how this technology works. I'd like to take the remainder of this post to describe a couple of practical applications.
CCR Merging
The Continuity of Care Record is a specification developed for exchanging patient health information among providers. The idea is that as a patient moves from provider to provider, their CCR moves seamlessly with them. Each provider adds new information about new diagnoses, tests, drugs prescribed, elements of family history, etc. The meat of a CCR is these informational records. Each record is composed of a 'Text' name (the human readable name), and a 'Code', which identifies the record in the coding scheme (the ontology). You can see immediately what the problem is going to be with exchanging CCRs; there are many different coding schemes, with varying levels of completeness in the areas of drugs, diseases, procedures, signs and symptoms, etc. Suppose care provider A sends a CCR to B, who sends it to C, who sends it back to A. Suppose that B and C use different coding schemes than A for at least some of the information. How is A going to be able to tell which records in the CCR have changed? The Text and Codes may have changed, yet represent the same information.
The semantic fingerprint provides a robust way to compare the Text of two fields, and determine whether they are the same concept, unrelated concepts, or closely related concepts. In the first case, even though the Codes may be different, we can be sure that both CCRs are talking about the same thing, and choose whichever code we prefer. In the second case, we can be sure that the records are different. The semantic fingerprint can even help with the third case. Suppose a record goes out with the diagnosis of 'multiple sclerosis' and comes back with 'neuromyelitis optica'. In some ontologies, neuromyelitis optica is a child of multiple sclerosis. In other ontologies, it is a related disorder but not a child. We can prompt a physician to examine other information in the CCR, such as notes, to help disambiguate.
In any case, by changing the representation of the CCR from Text and Code fields to the semantic fingerprint, we can quickly identify the unchanged records and the new records, and we have a powerful tool to help disambiguate the records whose status is unclear.
Code Conversion
When providers standardize on different ontologies, a difficult translation problem arises. While each one of them has chosen an ontology to use internally, in order to communicate with each other they must be able to translate into other coding schemes.
Rather than developing a translator for each foreign coding scheme and trying to maintain it in the face of ambiguity and constant change, a provider can first translate to a semantic fingerprint (or use the semantic fingerprint as their native representation). Each bit in a semantic fingerprint can provide the code or codes for any of the source ontologies that comprise the semantic fingerprint model. Again, this capability is enabled by relying on the rigorous and extensive vocabulary of medicine to unify and segregate concepts from multiple ontologies based on their synonyms.
If the destination ontology does not contain a concept (SNOMED has the 'remittent-progressive multiple sclerosis' concept but MeSH does not; the FDA drug database contains 'AMBRISENTAN' but SNOMED does not), the system can either choose a more general concept that is available in the destination ontology ('multiple sclerosis', 'endothelin receptor antagonist'), or provide the concept in the source coding scheme, or take some alternative hybrid approach.
Concept Versioning
The body of medical knowledge is being constantly updated and revised. Guidelines are changed, new drug interactions and side effects are discovered, new drugs are approved and new indications are added to existing drugs. For this reason, as well as error correction and re-organization of existing concepts, medical ontologies are constantly changing; most are updated at least monthly, often weekly. Therefore any system which is ontology-based must be constantly revised and updated.
Each semantic fingerprint is based on a specific version. The changes between versions are available through the semantic fingerprint API, and each new version consists of a curated, consistent merging of the source ontologies. So rather than having to track and manage many ontology versions, a semantic fingerprint-based system simply stores the model version along with each fingerprinted record. When the model changes, the fingerprinted records which may have been affected can be incrementally updated.
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access
June of 2007 at the MITX (Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange) Technology Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA, the inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee was awarded the organizations 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award (last year, Nicholas Negroponte was the recipient). Prior to the main event getting underway (many other awards for innovation and leadership were handed out to Massachusetts-based hi-tech companies), knowing that Sir Tim was “in the house,” I asked about his whereabouts and was led to a VIP reception where he was holding court with several attendees including Fortune Magazine senior editor David Kirkpatrick (who later moderated a great discussion about the mobile Web). As that reception wrapped up, Sir Tim stuck around to answer some questions on video.
He and covered a fairly broad range of topics. We started out with a report card one of his most important initiatives as director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): the Semantic Web. For those of you not familiar with the Semantic Web, I asked Sir Tim to state its value proposition.
You can listen to what he has to say about, but the general idea is for there to be a layer of data on the Internet that he calls the “data bus” and the way the data bus works is not too different from how we’ve heard Microsoft’s WinFS filesystem described where connectivity between related data items is organic rather than synthesized. For example, whereas today, a mashup developer may have to call upon two APIs to show where a specific Starbucks is on a map, the Semantic Web approach might involve little more than a simple query of that data bus using a query technology called SparQL.
As Sir Tim explained how SparQL works, it led me to the next natural question which was whether the current API-driven approach to relating Internet-based data from multiple sources would have to be reconciled with the Semantic Web. Given the popularity of API-driven access, in the back of my mind, I couldn’t help wonder if there wasn’t a bit of a race going on. On one side, there’s the W3C with the work its doing on the Semantic Web (based very much on something known as RDF or the Resource Description Framework).
On the other, a lot of big Internet companies would probably prefer developers go the non-standard API route because of the way API-dependencies can result in developer loyalty (ok, “lock-in”). After all, once code is written and reliant on APIs (and it works), API extrication (in favor of using SparQL against RDF) will invariably entail a rewrite. That is unless developers are anticipating the Semantic Web and modularizing their code in such a way that they have query modules that abstract query specifics. In that case, so long as the module returns the same information, it’s only the guts of the module that have to be fixed (trust me, it’s much more complicated that I’m making it seem).
The message (regarding data access) from Sir Tim was of course very much about standards. If you subscribe to the notion of the Semantic Web, then you also believe that data access should involve standard mechanisms for data connectivity and queries (as opposed to APIs). That discussion of standards (we talked about the royalty-free issue as well as open source) was a great lead in to the next issue that I most wanted to hear from Sir Tim about: standards in the RIA (Rich Internet Application) space.
The big question there is whether the existence of exisiting non-standard (non-de jure standard, that is) RIA development platforms (eg: Flash and Java) along with the arrival of new ones (like Silverlight) is something that requires the attention of the very de jure-standards focused W3C. Not surprisingly, the stovepiping of the Web is something that is very near and dear to Sir Tim’s heart. Check out the video. Or, if you don’t have time to watch but want to hear the interview. We’ve stripped off the audio and made it available as a downloadable podcast or you can just hit the play button above on the Flash-based podcast player ( read more about subscribing to the podcasts so they show up automatically on your PC or MP3 player).
He and covered a fairly broad range of topics. We started out with a report card one of his most important initiatives as director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): the Semantic Web. For those of you not familiar with the Semantic Web, I asked Sir Tim to state its value proposition.
You can listen to what he has to say about, but the general idea is for there to be a layer of data on the Internet that he calls the “data bus” and the way the data bus works is not too different from how we’ve heard Microsoft’s WinFS filesystem described where connectivity between related data items is organic rather than synthesized. For example, whereas today, a mashup developer may have to call upon two APIs to show where a specific Starbucks is on a map, the Semantic Web approach might involve little more than a simple query of that data bus using a query technology called SparQL.
As Sir Tim explained how SparQL works, it led me to the next natural question which was whether the current API-driven approach to relating Internet-based data from multiple sources would have to be reconciled with the Semantic Web. Given the popularity of API-driven access, in the back of my mind, I couldn’t help wonder if there wasn’t a bit of a race going on. On one side, there’s the W3C with the work its doing on the Semantic Web (based very much on something known as RDF or the Resource Description Framework).
On the other, a lot of big Internet companies would probably prefer developers go the non-standard API route because of the way API-dependencies can result in developer loyalty (ok, “lock-in”). After all, once code is written and reliant on APIs (and it works), API extrication (in favor of using SparQL against RDF) will invariably entail a rewrite. That is unless developers are anticipating the Semantic Web and modularizing their code in such a way that they have query modules that abstract query specifics. In that case, so long as the module returns the same information, it’s only the guts of the module that have to be fixed (trust me, it’s much more complicated that I’m making it seem).
The message (regarding data access) from Sir Tim was of course very much about standards. If you subscribe to the notion of the Semantic Web, then you also believe that data access should involve standard mechanisms for data connectivity and queries (as opposed to APIs). That discussion of standards (we talked about the royalty-free issue as well as open source) was a great lead in to the next issue that I most wanted to hear from Sir Tim about: standards in the RIA (Rich Internet Application) space.
The big question there is whether the existence of exisiting non-standard (non-de jure standard, that is) RIA development platforms (eg: Flash and Java) along with the arrival of new ones (like Silverlight) is something that requires the attention of the very de jure-standards focused W3C. Not surprisingly, the stovepiping of the Web is something that is very near and dear to Sir Tim’s heart. Check out the video. Or, if you don’t have time to watch but want to hear the interview. We’ve stripped off the audio and made it available as a downloadable podcast or you can just hit the play button above on the Flash-based podcast player ( read more about subscribing to the podcasts so they show up automatically on your PC or MP3 player).
Identity and the Semantic Web
An interesting report, "URI Identity Management for Semantic Web Data Integration and Linkage" has just been released after being presented to the 3rd International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems. As the blurb puts it (emphasis added):
"The Semantic Web vision involves the production and use of large amounts of RDF data. There have been recent initiatives amongst the Semantic Web community, in particular the Linking Open Data activity and our own ReSIST project, to publish large amounts of RDF that are both interlinked and dereferenceable. The proliferation of such data gives rise to millions of URIs for non-information resources such as people, places and abstract things. Frequently, different data providers will mint different URIs for the same resource, giving rise to the problem of coreference. This paper describes the phenomenon of coreference, where it occurs in other disciplines and how it is relevant to the Semantic Web. We propose a 멌onsistent Reference Service?for URI identity management and describe how this is being used in the infrastructure of a scalable Semantic Web system."Is this a phenomenon that could arise in OpenID and other URI/URL based identifier systems? Or is this simply the mirror of a single identity maintaining mutiple URI-based identifiers, each for use with a different persona?
"The Semantic Web vision involves the production and use of large amounts of RDF data. There have been recent initiatives amongst the Semantic Web community, in particular the Linking Open Data activity and our own ReSIST project, to publish large amounts of RDF that are both interlinked and dereferenceable. The proliferation of such data gives rise to millions of URIs for non-information resources such as people, places and abstract things. Frequently, different data providers will mint different URIs for the same resource, giving rise to the problem of coreference. This paper describes the phenomenon of coreference, where it occurs in other disciplines and how it is relevant to the Semantic Web. We propose a 멌onsistent Reference Service?for URI identity management and describe how this is being used in the infrastructure of a scalable Semantic Web system."Is this a phenomenon that could arise in OpenID and other URI/URL based identifier systems? Or is this simply the mirror of a single identity maintaining mutiple URI-based identifiers, each for use with a different persona?
The Semantic "Events" Web
The new Semantic Web-like Oracle Events application is out there. Call it a mashup of Google Maps, Siderean Seamark, and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search.I, for one, think this is the coolest app ever to appear with an Oracle.com header on it - by far.The "technology creep" intentionally initiated by OTN Semantic Web Beta continues, all according to plan. (Insert evil laughter here.)
FEW2007: find people on the Semantic Web
The 2nd International ExpertFinder Workshop: Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics (FEW2007) will be co-located with ISWC 2007 in Busan, Korea on November 12th, 2007.
ExpertFinder is an emerging collaborative initiative with the aim of devising vocabulary, rule extensions (for e.g. FOAF and SIOC) and best practices to annotate personal home pages, as well as web pages of institutions, conferences, publication indexes, etc. with adequate metadata to enable computer agents to find experts on particular topics.
I think FEW2007 will be an interesting workshop.
People search is a growing niche market on the Web. While nearly 50% of all web searches are done on Google, there is no clear winners in many of vertical search domains (e.g., travel, health and people).
Startup Spock is a leader in the people search domain (others include Pipl, PeekYou and Wink). Spock currently builds its database by scanning Web sites that people regularly post information about themselves and others, e.g., LinkedIn, MySpace and Facebook.
I think Semantic Web ontology like FOAF and SIOC will play important role in the development of people search engine. First, we have tons of FOAF and SIOC data running wild on the Web. Second, FOAF and SIOC allow more expressive representation of social network information. Third, people profiles described using these ontologies are more suitable for logical inference. It can help to enable knowledge fusion and data mining. Finally, publishing people profiles and social network information in RDF is less involved than publishing API for accessing back-end databases.
If all social network sites adopt FOAF as the standard vocabulary for expressing user profile, it will be easy for someone to build mashups of social networks across multiple sites (e.g., MySpace + Facebook + LinkedIn). Furthermore, if we treat each user profile as an RDF graph, we will be able to exploit SPARQL query services to query distributed data on the Web and begin to ask complex questions about our human social networks.
ExpertFinder is an emerging collaborative initiative with the aim of devising vocabulary, rule extensions (for e.g. FOAF and SIOC) and best practices to annotate personal home pages, as well as web pages of institutions, conferences, publication indexes, etc. with adequate metadata to enable computer agents to find experts on particular topics.
I think FEW2007 will be an interesting workshop.
People search is a growing niche market on the Web. While nearly 50% of all web searches are done on Google, there is no clear winners in many of vertical search domains (e.g., travel, health and people).
Startup Spock is a leader in the people search domain (others include Pipl, PeekYou and Wink). Spock currently builds its database by scanning Web sites that people regularly post information about themselves and others, e.g., LinkedIn, MySpace and Facebook.
I think Semantic Web ontology like FOAF and SIOC will play important role in the development of people search engine. First, we have tons of FOAF and SIOC data running wild on the Web. Second, FOAF and SIOC allow more expressive representation of social network information. Third, people profiles described using these ontologies are more suitable for logical inference. It can help to enable knowledge fusion and data mining. Finally, publishing people profiles and social network information in RDF is less involved than publishing API for accessing back-end databases.
If all social network sites adopt FOAF as the standard vocabulary for expressing user profile, it will be easy for someone to build mashups of social networks across multiple sites (e.g., MySpace + Facebook + LinkedIn). Furthermore, if we treat each user profile as an RDF graph, we will be able to exploit SPARQL query services to query distributed data on the Web and begin to ask complex questions about our human social networks.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
FP7 funds LarKC Proposal of Saltlux Consortium
Saltlux Inc. (Saltlux) announces that the LarKC Proposal made by the consortium for which Saltlux joined as one of the member organizations has been accepted and will be funded by FP7, the Europe’s largest research programme. Totally 22 proposals had made competition and only 4 of them including LarKC Proposal were selected for receiving the fund by the programme. Saltlux’s involvement in this consortium for the Europe’s largest research fund project established a new record among Korean business organizations to the European programmes.
LarKC is the consortium project with the participation of Saltlux, WHO, Siemens, CYCORP, UIBK, University of Sheffield, AstraZeneca and other world renowned institutions under the contribution of distinguished research scholars in the world including but not limited to Drs/Profs Frank Van Harmelen, Dieter Fensel and Hamish Cunningham.
It is forecasted that the innovative technological basis for the next generation intellectual mobile service system and the bio-medical research will be completed by the time of project ended.
Saltlux’s role in this project is to create use cases through utilization of Saltlux’s proprietary [IN2]SOR and reasoning engine.
Because of the safe landing into this European project of 1,029 Million Euros for 4 year from December this year, Saltlux is to be qualified and reliable for direct application to any European research funds. Saltlux is further to show its highly advanced technology of reasoning engine of core semantic technology in the outsized capacity environment.
Through this project Saltlux will form a cooperative network with the world renowned organizations such as CYCORP, WHO, Siemens, AstraZeneca, UIBK, University of Sheffiield and others.
LarKC is the consortium project with the participation of Saltlux, WHO, Siemens, CYCORP, UIBK, University of Sheffield, AstraZeneca and other world renowned institutions under the contribution of distinguished research scholars in the world including but not limited to Drs/Profs Frank Van Harmelen, Dieter Fensel and Hamish Cunningham.
It is forecasted that the innovative technological basis for the next generation intellectual mobile service system and the bio-medical research will be completed by the time of project ended.
Saltlux’s role in this project is to create use cases through utilization of Saltlux’s proprietary [IN2]SOR and reasoning engine.
Because of the safe landing into this European project of 1,029 Million Euros for 4 year from December this year, Saltlux is to be qualified and reliable for direct application to any European research funds. Saltlux is further to show its highly advanced technology of reasoning engine of core semantic technology in the outsized capacity environment.
Through this project Saltlux will form a cooperative network with the world renowned organizations such as CYCORP, WHO, Siemens, AstraZeneca, UIBK, University of Sheffiield and others.
Saltlux joins to SUPER Project consortium
Saltlux Inc. (Seoul, Korea) announces that it was selected as one of the joint workers early this year for the SUPER Project. The consortium consists of a group of 20 companies including SAP, IBM Research, iSOCO, Telefonica, Telecomunicacja Polska and other world renowned companies. And Saltlux is the only Asian institute to join the consortium.
SUPER (Semantics Utilized for Process Management within and Between Enterprises) is an integrated project supported by the European Union in the 6th Framework Program. Working in collaboration with 19 partners from the industry and academia, Saltlux will be attempting to make a quantum leap in business process management by improving modeling and managing of business processes. This will be achieved by integrating and utilizing semantics for business process management.
SUPER establishes three architectural layers that correspond to today's de-facto layering of application systems in order to achieve the combination of semantic web services and business process management technology:
· Semantic business process modeling layer – Uses semantically enriched modeling languages such as Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for specifying business processes from a business perspective.
· Semantic business process engine layer – Extends the de-facto standard BPEL by semantics and executes semantic business process models.
· Semantic web services business layer – Provides a semantically enriched service business that handles brokering requests from the semantic business process engine.
The SUPER project aims to:
· Close the gap between the business layer, which describes how the business works, and the technical layer, which describes how the applications work.
· Improve business process management tasks and activities.
· Ease enterprise application integration tasks.
· Provide operational tools for (semantic) web service mediation and composition
Each institution in the consortium carries out ShadowProject for three year period by 2008.
Saltlux will involve to develop the mobile environment configuring prototypes for CRM, Traffic Routing, Management, Troubleshooting, Context-Aware Service Environment through utilization of [IN2]SOR based on the semantic technology. Saltlux will also be involved in configuration of framework for SBPM and in evaluation for the functionality and usability.
This includes the development of automatic annotation of the already existing business process and the IT components in addition to the security of the business process expressing language that is suitable to describe the process expression, heterogeneous process model and objectives of process. Saltlux will also be involved to develop the process query analyzing tool, improve the reasoning engine compatible to the SUPER Project, and will carry out works of detailing the arbitration process for the linkage automation between business and IT viewpoints.
The Saltlux’s role will also include the work for strengthening the technological basis through application of the semantic web service technology to a big scale business environment such as telecommunication business.
SUPER (Semantics Utilized for Process Management within and Between Enterprises) is an integrated project supported by the European Union in the 6th Framework Program. Working in collaboration with 19 partners from the industry and academia, Saltlux will be attempting to make a quantum leap in business process management by improving modeling and managing of business processes. This will be achieved by integrating and utilizing semantics for business process management.
SUPER establishes three architectural layers that correspond to today's de-facto layering of application systems in order to achieve the combination of semantic web services and business process management technology:
· Semantic business process modeling layer – Uses semantically enriched modeling languages such as Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for specifying business processes from a business perspective.
· Semantic business process engine layer – Extends the de-facto standard BPEL by semantics and executes semantic business process models.
· Semantic web services business layer – Provides a semantically enriched service business that handles brokering requests from the semantic business process engine.
The SUPER project aims to:
· Close the gap between the business layer, which describes how the business works, and the technical layer, which describes how the applications work.
· Improve business process management tasks and activities.
· Ease enterprise application integration tasks.
· Provide operational tools for (semantic) web service mediation and composition
Each institution in the consortium carries out ShadowProject for three year period by 2008.
Saltlux will involve to develop the mobile environment configuring prototypes for CRM, Traffic Routing, Management, Troubleshooting, Context-Aware Service Environment through utilization of [IN2]SOR based on the semantic technology. Saltlux will also be involved in configuration of framework for SBPM and in evaluation for the functionality and usability.
This includes the development of automatic annotation of the already existing business process and the IT components in addition to the security of the business process expressing language that is suitable to describe the process expression, heterogeneous process model and objectives of process. Saltlux will also be involved to develop the process query analyzing tool, improve the reasoning engine compatible to the SUPER Project, and will carry out works of detailing the arbitration process for the linkage automation between business and IT viewpoints.
The Saltlux’s role will also include the work for strengthening the technological basis through application of the semantic web service technology to a big scale business environment such as telecommunication business.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Pictures in 2007 Semantic Technology Conference
Afternote of SemTech2007 will be updated very soon!!
Monday, May 21, 2007
SemTech2007 and Saltlux
There is an online news article for SemTech2007 and Saltlux as follows;
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb520867.htm
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb520867.htm
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Saltlux and IRI Ubiteq form Business Alliance for a Web2.0 Solution Business and kick-off a Mutual Collaboration of R&D in the Ubiquitous Technology
Saltlux, Inc. (a Korean Corporation, Kyung-il (Tony) Lee, CEO, called “Saltlux” hereafter) with its Intelligent Info. Retrieval and Text Mining Technology and IRI Ubiteq, Inc. (a Japanese Corporation, Tsukasa Ogino, CEO, called “Ubiteq” hereafter) agreed to for business alliance for a web2.0 solution business, and also both concluded for technical collaboration in Ubiquitous Technology of the next generation of Web (Service Web2.0, Web3.0).
Saltlux will get a toehold into the Japan market with merging its Intelligent Info. Retrieval and Text Mining Technology with an objective-oriented SNS and/or the visual-mapping of information technology, called “Spatial Gateway” of Ubiteq.
On the other hand, Ubiteq will accelerate its Web2.0-type solution business previously announced with adding Saltlux technologies for meeting the needs of enterprises and/or schools. And also, Ubiteq will get a toehold in the Korea market with “Spatial Gateway” by merging it into the solution business scheme of Saltlux.
Contact Information:
Saltlux, Inc. : Lucy Cho TEL: +822-3402-0081(Ext.205) lucycho@saltlux.com
IRI Ubiteq, Inc. : Kosuke Ito k-ito@ubiteq.co.jp
TEL: +81-3-3344-7511 FAX: +81-3-3344-7522 press@ubiteq.co.jpIn addition, both companies also agreed to pursuit Ubiquitous Technologies as a mutual collaboration of R&D with the next generation of web technologies of Saltlux, such as Ontology and Semantic Web, and the sensor network and IPv6 technologies of Ubiteq for a near future ubiquitous solution.
Saltlux will get a toehold into the Japan market with merging its Intelligent Info. Retrieval and Text Mining Technology with an objective-oriented SNS and/or the visual-mapping of information technology, called “Spatial Gateway” of Ubiteq.
On the other hand, Ubiteq will accelerate its Web2.0-type solution business previously announced with adding Saltlux technologies for meeting the needs of enterprises and/or schools. And also, Ubiteq will get a toehold in the Korea market with “Spatial Gateway” by merging it into the solution business scheme of Saltlux.
Contact Information:
Saltlux, Inc. : Lucy Cho TEL: +822-3402-0081(Ext.205) lucycho@saltlux.com
IRI Ubiteq, Inc. : Kosuke Ito k-ito@ubiteq.co.jp
TEL: +81-3-3344-7511 FAX: +81-3-3344-7522 press@ubiteq.co.jpIn addition, both companies also agreed to pursuit Ubiquitous Technologies as a mutual collaboration of R&D with the next generation of web technologies of Saltlux, such as Ontology and Semantic Web, and the sensor network and IPv6 technologies of Ubiteq for a near future ubiquitous solution.
Saltlux partners with KartOO to provide Web 2.0 based service
Saltlux partners with KartOO to provide Web 2.0-based service [The Digital Times Oct. 26, 2006] On October 25, 2006, Saltlux (CEO: Kyung-il Lee) announced a strategic partnership with France based KartOO (CEO: Laurent Baleydier) to launch a service business based on semantic web and Web 2.0. KartOO is a world-class Web 2.0 specialist recognized by Gartner. Saltlux will combine its semantic technology with the French company's interactive visualization and group intelligence processing technology to launch a service business in Asia as its main target. KartOO's KartOO Visu consists of the server system and the visualization client. The server system processes and represents a high volume of Java and XML-based knowledge information. The flash-based visualization client can interact with the users. This solution provides all visualization features imaginable such as multidimensional knowledge maps, semantic information search engines, object navigation, and social network visualization. Saltlux will combine its semantic engine '[IN2]SDOR' with KartOO Visu to implement a wide range of next generation knowledge-based web applications, including semantic search engines, semantic KM, and semantic portals, and open their APIs. Saltlux will attend ISWC, the world's largest semantic web conference to be held in the United Sates in coming November, and present how it has applied semantic technology to a ubiquitous computing environment. Read Article_Digital Times Read Article_Electronic Times
Saltlux, Inc. has joined ISWC2006 as a Gold Sponsorship Member!
Saltlux, a solution company of next generational information retrieval based on semantic web and text mining (CEO Kyung-il (Tony) Lee, in2.saltlux.com) has joined ISWC2006 (International Semantic Web Conference 2006) and announced that they will conduct strategic marketing activities for opening up a new international market in ISWC2006 as a Gold Sponsorship Member. ISWC2006 is a huge international conference and it has been held in Athens, Georgia state of USA from November 5th to 9th. Approximately 600 people of web specialists will join and share their main information by making a presentation with their paper of Semantic web technology in ISWC2006. Saltlux will make a presentation with their paper for R&D achievement of next generational web technology applied in ubiquitous computing environment and conduct various activities for developing overseas sales in this conference. ISWC2007 and ASWC2007 will be held in Busan of Korea around mid-November, 2007. Therefore approximately 700 people of foreign professors, doctors and industrial engineers will visit Korea next year. Recently Saltlux has been trying to make inroads into Japanese web market and CEO (Kyung-il (Tony) Lee) has announced “We, Saltlux will join various kinds of international / domestic conferences continuously for acquiring popularity all over the world and advance into web market abroad over Asia to get international competitiveness.
Saltlux named Gold Sponsor and Tutorial Facilitator for ASWC2006
“Saltlux named gold sponsor and tutorial facilitator for ASWC 2006, 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference” Saltlux Inc., a solution provider for semantic web-based IT convergence services, next generation information searching and text mining, is named a gold sponsor and a tutorial facilitator for the Asian Semantic Web Conference 2006 (ASWC2006), which will be held for the first time in Asia. Running as an extension of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) and the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), which are the biggest semantic web-related events in the world, the ASWC is the very first international conference to be held in Asia. The ASWC will be held in Beijing, China, from September 3 to 7. Various programs are planned for the conference, including presentations by reputable researchers, tutorials, workshops, technical programs, and demo booths. As many as 300 semantic web researchers in Korea, China and Japan, as well as other experts from Europe and North America, are scheduled to present their research findings. Presentations will cover latest semantic web-related research findings, ranging from ontology to reasoning, database, system integration, annotation, and semantic web services. Saltlux Inc. will be facilitating one of the three tutorials during the conference. Titled “Tools and Applications for the Enterprise Semantic Web,” Saltlux Inc. will be co-hosting this tutorial with ontoprise, a German firm. Leveraging on their rich industry experience, the two companies will give an overview of fundamental concepts for ontology modeling, reasoning, and semantic web-based applications in the business environment. Tutorial participants will also be given an opportunity to try out commercially available ontology modeling tools and reasoning engines. In addition, the two facilitators will introduce to the participants OntoBroker and KAON2, knowledge management and information searching applications for the actual enterprise environment, by providing their demonstrations.
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