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.

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.

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

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/

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

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.”