BKM Starts Step Forward Notheast Knowledge Market.

Saltlux Inc, one of the global leader for the information mining and semantic search technology announced that they have finalized the development of search service of BKMnet, the knowledge portal of Busan. BKMnet is a system that re-create the added value through share of quality knowledge in addition to search the right professionals and human network. The network system developed under the integration with semantic technology and network analysis technology from Saltlux Inc.is characterized by the technologies of knowledge analysis and insight supply such as human network analysis and professional search by subjects.

Busan Human Resource Development Institution (General Director: H.R.Chung) held a symposium on the Knowledge Creation City simultaneousely with the demonstration meeting for the BKMnet homepage, which was the final review meetinng for the commercial service of the portal site early next year. A hundred of professionals attended to the meeting were supprisingly interested in the operation of the system that was showing search procedure of “custom-made professionals” in relation to the field of finance and maritime affairs which are the strategic industries of Busan.

Prof. Y.H.Kim of Yonsei University commented and appraised, “This must be one of the Copernicus’ idea in that the system have actualized and measured the immaterial knowledge concepts. Search system for the profeessionals by subject and human network might be the world first creation.”

Saltlux Inc. receives some proposals from variouse customers for off-line knowledge portals.

The Blog of Saltlux: Semantic Web Conference 2009 on December 4.

Semantic Web Conference 2009 on December 4.

Semantic web conference 2009 will be held on December 4. At this conference where the industry, science and research people related to the semantic web technology will get together will discuss on the practical application cases under the theme of "Semantic Web: Where Are We?" At the conference participants will share the common utilization case information on from computer science to oriental herbal medicine and also discuss where the business go forward from the present status.

Tony Lee, President and CEO of Saltlux will also introduce at the conference on 'Semantic Social Network Analysis Cases.'

Semantic Web Conference 2009

- Date & Time: December 4, Friday, 08:00 ~ 18:00

- Place: International Conference Room, level 1, National Library of Korea

- Target Audience: All who are interested on Semantic Web, Social Web

(200 first comers will be eligible to register)

- Registration Fee: 10,000 Won (Lunch will be provided)

Saltlux supply Search and Mining Engine to Japanese UFIT

Saltlux Inc, one of the world leaders in information mining and semantic search solution market, announced that the company has made an agreement with Japanese UFIT, specified in the information process lead by Takeda Yoshihiko for the supply of integrated search and mining engine and business cooperation.
Saltlux supplied search and mining engine will be loaded on ‘Knowledge-On’, a next generation groupware developed by UFIT. ‘Knowledge-On’ is a SaaS type hybrid groupware that incorporates portal function with a groupware that promotes share and utilization of in-company knowledge information. ‘Knowledge-On’ also enables information linkage through uploading of functions such as workflow, file management, mail, blog, etc to the principle function.
This project of UFIT will be developing the functions for mobile, API extension, SFA and CRM as a information sharing based service beyond the limited groupware and targeting 100 thousand service users.
This will be strengthening the productivity and efficiency in information sharing and utilization through text mining functions such as analysis of search results, automatic classification/summarization/clustering in addition to quantitative integrated search through [integration of Saltlux’s [IN2]DOR, an integrated search engine and TMS, a mining engine for the information process of widely distributed large amount of data.
Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux stressed, “We believe that UFIT has selected Saltlux because of the technology and quality excellence. Especially, Mining and semantic search technology of Saltlux are also recognized as an excellent technology in Japan as a differentiated technology that may satisfy the productivity and efficiency for information utilization.”
Since [IN2]SearchBox was awarded Grand Prix of the Venture Part at the ‘INTEROP Tokyo 2009’ last June, Saltlux plans to cooperate development of the product forward to the next generation enterprise communication platform with the integration of ‘Knowledge-On’ to Saltlux’s semantic and knowledge network analysis technology.
UFIT, one of the subsidiaries of IT Holding Group established in 1970 is a well known IT information process and system integration specified company with 1,300 employees and 42.4 billion yen sales revenue.

The 21st annual conference on Human and Cognitive Language Technology

The 21st annual conference on Human and Cognitive Language Technology is being held on this October 9 and 10 of 2009 in Yuseong Legend Hotel in Yuseong, Daejeon.
Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux, is participating to the conference as one of the members of Organizing Committee of the conference.
Sixteen research papers are being read and 37 papers are being posted at the conference.
Papers on , , , will be read in the plenary session of the conference.
Details of the conference programm will be provided on the following site (in Korean): http://duan.chonbuk.ac.kr/~hclt2009/programm.html

“Thank You" Event for Search Portal System of SearchBox to Customers by Saltlux.

Saltlux Inc., specialized and the leader in the enterprise search solution, will be proceeding a 'Thank you' event for the document storage and search server of SearchBox to customers in commemoration of award of the Venture Grand Prix in the INTEROP Tokyo 2009.
Through the event being held for 3 months from November 30, customer will be able to purchase SearchBox at the low price of 2,750,000 Won from the list price of 3,630,000 Won with gratitude gift of 2TB NAS (a network storage) limited up to 100 copies.
SearchBox is an appliance type document storage and search server with application of text mining technology, and provides functions of automatic collection and storage of internal document assets of an enterprise, of integrated search and of clustering, etc. The SearchBox can be installed and operated through the simple description in the accompanied manual without any assistance of specialists.
Details of the product will be provided in http://search.saltlux.com and inquiries may be forwarded to the phone number 82-2-3402-0081 (ext. 121)

Saltlux Launches Search Server for Translation Document Management in Japan

Saltlux announced that the company has made a contract agreement with a Japanese technical communication company ISE (Information System Engineering, www.ise.co.jp) on the sales of [IN2]SearchBox after the development the tool as a search server for the translation document management for the Japanese market.
The search server will analyse and search the identical documents and terminologies from the past translation utilizing the SearchBox and support to translate only the unduplicated sentences. Especially, this system will be most helpful to a small or medium corporate who could not use the Translation Memory(TM) because of the cost through utilization of searched sentences verified.
In addition the developed server product will improve customer satisfaction and pays royalty because of the reduce economic burden from the low costed SearchBox because it does not need any customizing process like in the introduction of TM.
Mr. S. H. Shin, Managing Director of Saltlux stresses, "This SearchBox product that is optimized for translation document management will be utilized as the translation supporting tool for small sized translation projects. It will also provide cost saving, shortening the delivery time and quality stability to medium and small customers." Both ISE and Saltlux have already been providing document in Korean and Japan the authoring solution service by grafting the Saltlux's document authoring and translation service and ISE's authoring solution, and this product will further improves customer's benefits for the management and utilization of translated documents.
SearchBox was in the highlight of mass communication at the JTC2009 (Japanese Technical Communication Association 2009) held during the period of August 25th~ 26th, and the co-development and launch of the SearchBox for translation document management will be started in September period.

Introduction to Tools and Application for Corporate Semantic Web

When the at the end of this article is clicked the tutorial material written to have the beginners of ontology be experienced on the technology systematically through whole and detailed description and introduction of OntoStudio and Protege may be read.

Ontology may be self studied through demonstration of construction and practice.

[Contents]
- Element of Ontology, Classification of Ontology, Taxonomy, Thesaurus, Requirement for Ontology Languagy, F-Logic, OWL, Ontology Engineering
- Ontology Engineering and Practices and Tips
- Semantic KM and Retrieval System
- Ubiquitous and Contents Awareness

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Semantic Search and Technology Related References Uploaded.

Saltlux Inc., one of the global leaders in the integrated semantic search solution market plans to upload the technical and conference references and for search, semantic web, ontology, text mining and ubiquitous computing for the external users instead of internal users only.
In July about 50 items have been loaded and 50 more items will be loaded every month for references reported during the period of 2003 믕 2009.
Anyone interested are invited to download the references in Korean language from the appropriate field of categories in the Saltlux web site.

The 2nd Conference on Search Technology by Search Solution Companies.

The 2nd conference of 'Search Technology Summit 2009 (STS 2009)' will be held in September under the sponsorship of Diquest(www.diquest.com), Saltlux(www.saltlux.com), Wisenut(www.wisenut.com), and Konan Technology(www.konantech.co.kr).
The last year's conference was held with 1,200 participants from various organization including those from the most of big local enterprises. It was a surprise event that was voluntarily co-sponsored by the competitors in search solution development and marketing in the same market to help advancement of correct understanding of search solution and the he development of the industry. This was especially evaluated as a meaningful and successful conference even though it was not a commercial one but was focused on the technology and the participants were able to access various technologies of search.
STC 2009 will be held on September 8 at Intercontinental Hotel under the theme of "Discovery, the Future that Changes the World". In this STC 2009 creation of knowledge and networking of information, search technology for efficient utilization and core algorithm will be discussed in depth and the next generation technology that would change the future world will be introduced.
The sponsors commonly commented that this conference will be the best occasion to expand the understanding and knowledge on the recent technological trends of search market, the service realization and application technologies of search solution, semantic web and analysis technology, and the prediction of 2010 search technology.
Several specialists representing industry and academic research of search science will participate and present their original papers in this STS 2009 which will be open to any pre-registrants throu호 www.stskorea.org without entrance fee.

Saltlux Inc. MOU with Add-Him

Saltlux Inc.(www.saltlux.com), one of the global leaders in semantic search technology market announced that the company has contracted and exchanged MOU Agreement with Add-Him (www.add-him.co.kr), a corporate specified on human network management solution.

Through this MOU agreement both company is able to market an integrated solution of [IN2]Discovery of Saltlux with human network map service /solution of Add-Him in sales of enterprise type of package that enables application of human network map which includes the interested human network development and introduction of human resources, mutual cooperation in technical, sales and marketing aspects, too.
[IN2]Discovery is a search engine based on semantic, concept and information relationship beyond the limit of keyword based integrated search, and is an integrated semantic search solution in that the innovative high technologies such as semantic technology/ontology and reasoning/text mining/platform virtualization technology are mutually integrated

This is a strong next generation type search engine for enterprise with effectiveness for rapid utilization of in-house knowledge assets and cost savings in addition to conversion of unstructured information to knowledge, integrated understanding and knowledge productivity.

The human network management solution developed by Add-Him updates and maintains human network through automatic validation of changes of the network to support of conversion of human network of the third enterprise human resources into intangible assets. It also supports integrated support of various attributes such as mutual utilization, contribution degree, importance degree of human network by systemized management of the enterprise human network and voluntarily participation through utilization of supported local key enterprise non-financial information.

Especially, it may be used setting in or in connection with the existing enterprise computer system. The solution is currently being used by about 10 conglomerated corporations, and has supplied to www.maekyung.com and www.joins.com as a web service type.

Mr. Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux says, “Through this business cooperation [IN2]Discovery is ready to provide the function of human network integration in and out of an enterprise in addition to the functions of knowledge asset analysis such as individual business intimacy and social asset analysis. We plan to emphasize and speed up our technological development and sales and marketing activities by this cooperation with Add-Him.”

Mr. H.D.Yoon, the President and CEO of Add-Him emphasized, “Through this MOU Saltlux and Add-Him plan to develop mutual benefits through connection and cooperation in technology, product, service and sales network. We are looking forward to seeing the positive results from integration of the strong human network management solution of Add-Him with the semantic technology of Saltlux.”

“Semantic Search”, Key Word for SemTech2009.

Saltlux Inc. (www.saltlux,com) announced its participation to 2009 Semantic Technology Conference (www.semtech2009.com, STC) held in San Jose, California during June 14~18.

STC is a world wide information share and learning annual conference on the topic of Semantic technology initiated by the semantic industries, and many world renowned experts and related delegates proceeds papers reading and tutorial sessions in addition to operation of demonstration programme by related enterprises from various countries in the world,
At this year’s conference 1,200 delegates participated, 200 more than last yea’s meeting, and the key topics were semantic search, mobile semantic, linked data semantic solution, and semantic publishing. Recent status of semantic technology and semantic business, from semantic as technology to semantic as business, were shared and discussed. Especially, ‘semantic search’ was one of the top issues to discuss in the conference, and semantic wiki and ‘semantic publishing’ were focused by some of the participants.

Saltlux Inc. was participated to the conference as a Silver Sponsor again this year with a booth where integrated semantic search solution [IN2]Discovery, mobile applied semantic technology and semantic wiki were demonstrated. Status of semantic technology and business were publicly communicated widely to the world participants through introduction of various use cases and paper reading sessions.
Saltlux was the only one who participated to the paper reading session and panel discussion on the mobile semantics which is spotlighted as a semantic technology and business in Europe.
A Japanese news agency Nikkei BP Tech-On News published the Saltlux interview on mobile semantics.(http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20090619/171936)

Mr. Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux, says, “Semantic search technology and interest of Asia are not behind those of Europe. And Saltlux will be established as a key enterprise in the semantic solution business with our integrated semantic search and mobile semantic technology."

Saltlux, Best of Show Award Grand Prix by INTEROP Tokyo 2009

Saltlux Inc., one of the global leader in information mining and semantic technology announced that the company was awarded Grand Prix, the Best of Show Award in the venture part by the INTEROP Tokyo 2009 held on June 8~12 in Tokyo for [IN2]SearchBox, the appliance type document save and search server.
Mr. Samsoo Park, the manager for Saltlux branch in Japan reported that [IN2]SearchBox was come into its own as an excellent appliance product because of its excellent functions of text mining and clustering with Japanese language processing. Saltlux has been leading exclusivity in Japanese appliance type search server market since the sales agent agreement with Samurais, the representative corporation in Japanese enterprise web solutions.”
This is the first time ever awarded Grand Prix to Korean company by INTEROP Tokyo and means that the technology and the excellence of product was recognized internationally.

SearchBox is the product that possibly applied for sharing in-house documents and making asset in addition to back-up without introduction of so many servers and systems in a company.
Especially, it is possible to automatically collect in-house document assets by easy install, to rapidly and easily search the needed information from similar information, to provide various functions of object and similar documents searches such as images, graphs and tables, and document clustering. Additionally, it has advantages of low cost because of the possible install and maintenance without any IT specialist
Saltlux is ready to be the number one leading company in the semantic integrated search solution not only in Korean and Japanese but also in global market with the SearchBox together with the [IN2]Discovery, the semantic integrated search solution being launched in July this year.

Discovery

Abstract
[IN2]Discovery is an integrated semantic search solution that enables to change the huge amount of information internally scattered in an organization to knowledge through a sharp observation, reorganization and analysis from various angles, and to re-utilize as knowledge asset of an organization through discovery of hidden issues and values.

[IN2]Discovery, as a new paradigm of integrated search beyond the general search, is an enterprise information analysis platform with high scalability that enables discovery of critical insight through intellectual text analytics of a huge quantitative structured and unstructured data and information such as call center log, blog and e-mails in a company or an organization.

[IN2]Discovery means a strong combination of business intelligence applied to search platform through integration and control of all the information needed for business intelligence solution, and will be resulted in better decision making through enabling 360 degree view on employees, customers, partners and external point of view and ROI improvement over the investment.

Distinctive Features

Innovativeness
1. Analysis of 85% stored structured and unstructured enterprise document and intellectualization.
2. Suggestion of analysed information of related information, tendency and related personnel.
3. Highly reliable analysis quality by proven technology

Functionality
1. Automatic clustering, classification and information search of big quantity contents
2. Relationship and trend analysis through semantic mining
3. Knowledge network analysis, semantic search and visualization

Convenience
1. Application of intellectual distribution computing and grid technology
2. Existing search engine may be used
3. May be interlinked with business intelligence and data mining system

Key Functions
Integrated Search
Integrated search of web, wiki/blog, home page and e-mail
Synonym search

Structural Search Results and User Interface Browsing
Automatic classification
Automatic clustering & visualization
Faceted navigation
Dynamic selection
-Integrated/Intuitive Graphical reporting
-Search and multi-analysis and reporting on Structured/Unstructured data search
Pattern learning
Trends analysis
Link analysis
Association analysis
Entity extraction
TopicRank based relationship analysis
-Automatic creation of semantic meta data
-Semantically related information search and analysis
-Reasoning based strong alert and personalization
User behavior based machine-learning
Role-based search
Dynamic Ranking
Social Search
-Social network Analysis external information linkage
-High grade managerial function
Integrated setting and management
Ranking model and weight value management
Preliminary management
Excellent statistics and reporting
-Strong security/Privacy and standard framework support
-Customization) and excellent scalability
-Super quantitative distribution search engine built-in

System structure
(To be updated)

Introduction Effect
-Search of structured and unstructured data contents and all round knowledge information analysis through semantic mining
-Discovery of hidden information which is impossible by concept based and keyword search and understanding of semantic relationship
-Supporting of decision making through enabling the valuable information search by knowledge discovery beyond the information search
-Integrated analysis of internal and external information such as market and competitor trends through linkage to OWLIM
-Intuitive information recognition through strong visualization

Another Successful Seminar on Semantic Search Technology by Saltlux.

Saltlux seminar on “Semantic Search: Discovery of Hidden knowledge” by Saltlux Inc held on June 9, 2009 at the venue of Korea Science and Technology Center was successfully finished with more than 300 participants. The seminar aimed to show the recent semantic technology to the customer audiences who are willing to know about semantic technology in the occasion of product launch of [IN2]Discovery, the semantic incorporated search solution.
This seminar was planned to show the semantic search than semantic web, the enterprise search than web search, focusing semantic search related technical contents.
At the seminar Prof., Dr. Y. T. Park lectured on ‘The Technical Trend of Semantic Search’ at the key note presentation session.
At the R&D session Albert Ahn, the R&D Team Leader for the [IN2]Discovery Development, presented on ‘Knowledge Networking, Information Integration and Connected Knowledge Discovery’ and Kevin Chung, the senior researcher for the [IN2]Discovery Development project presented on ‘Analysis of Knowledge Ecosystem, Knowledge Trend Analysis and Visual Representation.’
I. J. Kim, the Director for Sales and Marketing self-composedly explained the core technology and functions of [IN2]Discovery with demonstrations.
Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux, explained the needs of the semantic technology in the search market under the subtitles of a) Semantic search, b). Knowledge networking and c) Knowledge ecosystem analysis based on his wide and deep experiences and knowledge backgrounds in the science and technology in the field of semantic search.
The contents of presentations at the seminar will be posted later on the web site of www.saltlux.com

Urgent Notice from Saltlux on [IN2]Discovery Seaminar

Please be noticed that Saltlux Inc. urgently announces the change of the June 9 [IN2]Discovery seminar venue from “Diamond hall, Textile Center near Samsung subway station” to “Korea Science and Technology Center” near Kang-Nam subway station because of the pre-registration numbers exceed 300, more than we expected. The former venue can only accommodates about 150 participants while the later does more than 300 participants.
Many thanks are due to the pre-registrants for the seminar and to those people who will register at the venue on the day of seminar.
At Saltlux, we will be doing our best to satisfy you with the contents of the seminar and lead not only the domestic search market but also the global market with our [IN2]Discovery, the clever search programme.
Now, there are no limitation in the number of participants to the seminar and we hope to help as many people as possible in describing the [IN2]Discovery for the benefits of you, our customer companies and individuals if possible.

Come and Listen to the seminar for the benefits of your organization with our search engine/programme of [IN2]Discovery.

Thanks are due to all the participants to be in advance.

[e-Frontier] Saltlux transforms paradigm about search

[ETNEWS, 2009-05-27]

Saltllux Inc.(www.saltlux.com) is a company who is building a new history about the search market through suggesting document resource utilization revitalization method for so called knowledge ecosystem

Being established as a technical contents localization company in 1979, Saltlux became IT based language and document processing company through M&A with Sysmeta who owned language information processing technology.

Saltlux has been recognized to the world of IT because of its technologies and know-how's by beeing nominated as one of the Asia's 200 IT corporate by world famous Red Herring and by publishing a semantic technology developed by Saltlux and use case of it on the web homepage of W3C, web standardization organization. Currently, Saltlux is one of the leaders in the field of corporate search engine and semantic web business.

Saltlux's technology was recognized abroad, too. Saltlux was selected as only one of the project partner coworkers from Asian companies for the biggest European fund projects of FP6 (Super Project) and FP7 (LarkC Project). Saltlux has already accumulated references of semantic web technology application in the fields of public patented mobile on-line market ubiquitous, etc.

Saltlux introduced an integrated search engine of information search and mining with semantic technology. They become distinguished in the high functional information search, too. Recently Saltlux introduced SearchBox, an hardware integrated software server of plug and play type of operation for the improvement of productivity and cost saving. This is neccessary for the government offices and enterprises because of their workload increase due to the human resouces relocations and retirement.

SearchBox periodically and automatically collects documents at 5 minutes at least and a day at the longest interval. Archiving function protects the loss of documents. The collected documents could automatically and easily be classified and shared by departments and by purposed while the existinf old way is to manually collect and share the documents by e-mail messenger server, etc.

SearchBox may search images, graphs and charts in addition to text sentences. Showing keyword summarized important sentence is another characteristics of SearchBox. Because of the low cost, SearchBox may beused by a small companies without any load and the new adopters may easily used because it does have an easy user interface. Japanese market response has been grate since its distribution through sales channels of Samurais and others.

Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux says, "A big scale knowledge ecosystem may be constructed through activation of small knowledge ecosystem construction." Tony suggested a new paradigm of "small knowledge ecosystem" to the domestic companies through SearchBox, his key product and emphasized that his compqny will maximize the in-house document utilization of an organization. Small knowledge ecosystem is a system that shares the internal resources by department not by a big scale. Like nervouse system the precisely constructed small knowledge ecosystem will sucure the healthy big knowledge ecosystem.

Tony says, "to be survived in a severely competitive global market a small know-how of an individual member of an organization should be utilized as a competition maximization factor. The needs for the SearchBox will be rapidly growing domestically and globally due to its functional support."

Saltlux pays efforts to improve the customers' business efficiency and further improves internal innovation. The company has long adopted "8 to 5 concentrated working hour system", beginning working at 8 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m. Employees of this company adopts "8:2 law" spending 80% for the individual innovation and 20% for the improvement of company's competitiveness.

Reporter: J.W.Chung (coolj@etnews.co.kr)

Search & Discovery that leads Knowledge World
Semantic Search: Discovery of Hidden Knowledge
13:30 ~ 17:00 hour, June 9, 2009

“A seminar on Search and Discovery that leads Knowledge World will be held at the Textile Center near Samsung subway station. Entry fee for pre-registrants is free.”

Now, “Knowledge orientation of information and security of insight” becomes more important while we have invested time and money for “information orientation of knowledge and share” in the past.
With information itself we could not be survived in this endless competition. Conversion of huge amount of in-house information to Knowledge through integration and analysis could only improve competitiveness of a corporation.
We invite you to join our seminar on “Semantic Search: Discovery of Hidden Knowledge” as a second campaign of “Search and Discovery that leads knowledge World” on June 9, 2009 (Tuesday) being held by Saltlux Inc. one of the world leaders in semantic search solution and service market.
You will be networking with the specialists and you will have experience the “Enterprise Search and Innovation of Semantic Technology” for time and money saving, discovery of hidden in-house information, and security of market insight of knowledge conversion of information.

When: June 9, 2009, 13:30 ~ 17:00
venue: Diamond hall, Textile Center near Samsung subway station (17F)
Pre-registration: 150 first comers will be first served by June 7, 2009
(On-line pre-registration via www.saltlux.com)
Entry Fee: Free
(Car paring will not be supported by sponsor. Please use public transportation)

12:30 ~ 13:30 Registration & Product Exhibition

13:30 ~ 14:10 [Invited speech] Trends of semantic search technology ...Prof. Y.T.Park, SSU

14:10 ~ 14:50 Knowledge orientation of Information and Insight ...Tony Lee, Saltlux

14:50 ~ 15:10 Coffee Break & Product Exhibition

15:10 ~ 15:50 Integrated semantic search, Discovery of hidden information...I.J.Kim, Saltlux

15:50 ~ 16:30 In-/external knowledge networking, in-/external information integration and discovery of connected knowledge ...Albert Ahn, Saltlux

16:30 ~ 17:10 Multidivisional visual analysis, diversified trends analysis and visualization ...Y.I.Chung, Saltlux

17:10 ~ 18:00 Product Exhibition & Network

Inquiries: Ms. M.J.Moon; 02-3402-0081; mjmoon@saltlux.com

Clever Retrieval – Semantic Search

1. Concept
Existing information retrieval is an acquainted technology and science familiar to us.
According to Wikipedia definition, it is one of the fields of science that is looking for the contents in a documents or the document itself. Google and Yahoo are some of examples of document retrieval software that we could easily.
Then, what is the Semantic Search?
Again according to Wikipedia definition, Semantic Search is a research field that is going to improve the existing search performance based on information such as XML, RDF, etc. on the semantic network. This is a type of search using semantic information of language of computation on the similarity between search language and document as a context similar to Page Rank of Google, for example.
In fact the term of semantic search is used widely from the technology of NLP to the search technology using semantic technology as the concepts of the term semantic web and ontology appeared.

Consequently, the Semantic Search at this point of time is a new paradigm of search technology field that is being developed toward diversified technologies and service model.

2. Way of Semantic Search Access
As briefly commented above the reason of becoming issue at the point of semantic search introduction is to solve the common concerns of information retrieval business in that the main target is to provide search results matching to the intent of the users through development of search technology of search language similarity through computing the keyword appearance frequency in terms of TF-IDF(Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency) and through understanding of the meaning of the information.

We would like to review the research and the development directions of semantic search. The semantic search that raised by the appearance of semantic web may be divided by two fields.
The first one is to seek information that semantically tagged instances through appropriate preparation of semantic query language and keyword search by semantic annotation of target document and modeling of domain knowledge (concept and relationship) as ontology languages such as RDF/S and OWL. And the other is to seek semantically tagged information of RDF/s or OWL existing on web. Actually, the former may be developed to the vertical search category in detailed domain or targeted to web category.



[Figure 1, Semantic Tagging of HTML]

Information expressed in HTML can be tagged in each semantic language. Key semantic languages include RDF, RDF/S, OWL, Microformat, and RDFa, etc., and are standardized technologies of W3C. Such semantic tagging is not limited to HTML and pre-defined meaning can be attached using semantic language to various data such as text information, HTML tag of relationship style of database (RDB), And the pre-defined meaning means ontology in the field of semantic web technology. Ontology may be defined independently according to domain and service type of information or already defined ontology including Dublin Core, SIOC, SKOS, FOAF, ResumeRDF, and DOAP can be referred and used.



[Figure 2, Data integration through SPAQL]

Query to information created through semantic tagging is possible to make through the semantic queries like SPARQL (Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language).
SPARQL is a W3C standard technology and is suitable query language to graph structured data such as RDF as an advanced step of DQL and RDQL.



[Figure 3, KERIS Semantic based search by Saltlux]

[Figure 3] shows the first access way case of semantic search applied to semantic search construction of Saltlux for KERRIS through query/search by semantic tagging of RBD data alike Oracle and adopt F-logic rule based reasoning.



[Figure 4, Museum Finland by SECO]

[Figure 4] shows Museum Finland project developed and accomplished by SECO(Semantic Computing Research Group) of Finland for the construction of knowledge base from museum information based on ontology mata data, that is similar to the case of KERRIS by Saltlux shown in Figure 3.

Semantic languages such as RDF and OWL accepted as standard by W3C have a broad and deep knowledge expression level and good to produce machine readable information through reasoning of description logic level.
And it has an advantage of integrated search by ontology and semantic query language. In the contrary it is necessary to adjust the level of expression because the current technology level is not sufficient for the automatic annotation of existing information. However, the research and development activities are in the progress to improve automatic annotation through information retrieval technologies such as text mining and NER(named entity recognition), and authoring tools that ease the semantic tagging to existing and being created documents and technologies such as RDFa and Microformat will surely activate the development of semantic search engine.



[Figure 5, SWSE by DERI]

[Figure 5] shows SWSE search engine developed by DERI Laboratories which searches and navigates the objects expressed by semantic web standard language in the object oriented concept. It supports interface that navigates the information to object units. This concept is not searching the text documents on the web but search concept of RDF resources in object units. SWSE collects billions of RDF documents from Falcon, Swoogle, Waston, and DBpedia data sets with separate unique URI and provides search services. SWSE processes the queries utilizing SPARQL, the W3C standard query language as an interior query engine.



[Figure 6, SWOOGLE by UMBC]

Ontology and semantic language resources on web can be retrieved by UMBC Swoogle in [Figure 6].

Secondly, in natural language search area through NLP it shows Q&A type search system presenting answer by analyzing natural language searched results in sentence type and semantic discovery. However, recent trend is to provide the search results in the balance of http://www.saltlux.com)/keyword search and sentence style search of Powerset (http://www.powerset.com/) as shown in [figure 7] from complex type of natural language query analysis.



[Figure 7, Search by powerset.com]

Sensebot(http://www.sensebot.net) of [Figure 8] is a search engine that provides summarized information of each site or documents as a result of search for the search word, not the web page list showing type of method. It provides summarized information through text mining by using Google type search engine. In this manner, research for semantic search area in view of linguistics utilizing NLP and text mining is being sustainably processed.



[Figure 8, SenseBot Search Engine]

Next, search area through browsing with visual function shows related information through additional information tagging to search index language, and develops toward easy discovery by search user. This area is not called a separate semantic search but the trend of current search area together with the introduction of web 2.0 technology contains many functionalities. Owlim.com shown in [Figure 9] is a service that is utilized by search through automatic creation of relationship between words by using Korean language retrieval of individual and keyword co-occurrence, and it visually expresses the related information and searches the summary of the contents.



[Figure 9, Search by owlim.com by saltlux]



[Figure 10, search by evri.com]

By now we have reviewed academy and industrial approach methods to achieve the objectives of semantic search.

Meaning or semantic based search as it says is a term with wide range of domain and technology and is not easy to make a simple concrete definition.
In this writing our intention was to review areas of ontological search, text mining, and improving the keyword search utilizing semantic technology.

3. Conclusion
Search technology is a key technology of company’s in-house and web information flow. At every second of time keywords are input into numerous search sites and the results flows to the users. Search users are accustomed to the current search technology and they express by themselves the needs. User’s needs are quite diversified such as results meeting with purpose, additional related information, results that are easy to read and discover, time saving, solution of meaning publicity, etc. To meet with these needs research proceeds in the way of semantic search technology area.

As reviewed above cases the current semantic search technology is focused to develop a more advanced technology level using semantic search area including ontology and text mining. This may not be defined as a word of nonobjective semantic search development but R&D trend of communicating knowledge and discover information under the natural information search behavior and to provide better qualitative information to users ultimately.

Great Success , Search & Discovery Seminar of Saltlux

Saltlux Inc. ( www.saltlux.com), one of the world leaders in semantic search market has successfully finished the first seminar of “Search and Discovery that leads the knowledge world” on April 27 this year at the COEX Grand Ballroom in Samsung-dong Seoul, Korea.
In this seminar Saltlux introduced the way to improve the value of the in-house knowledge asset of an enterprise through storage, sharing and utilization of documents to its partner companies and customers.

At the introductory presentation Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux emphasized, “Even so huge number of documents produced in a corporate production processes and know-hows could not be shared in the organization because of the difficulties to share registration or upload method and worries of problem disclosure due to the egocentric mind for the team and only the final results shared. To resolve this issue an organization needs to have an easy automation system to use with a reasonable introduction costs, easy setting and operation of the system without a skilled IT specialist, and with strong security function and flexible connectivity.”

Saltlux introduced a hardware integrated [IN2]SearchBox that enables a document archive and intellectual search as a way to resolve this issue at this seminar and through which a corporate could improve business productivity and efficiency with a simultaneous saving the cost.

Through use case of [IN2]SearchBox system by a patent agent, a consulting company and a research laboratory of a university, HyungJune Park of Saltlux emphasized, “The needs for search and share are urgent because of the information quantity is tremendously increased by documents electronization. And the past record reference job is also increasing in dealing with the similar documents and project. And [IN2]SearchBox would be the answer for the solution to this issue.”

At the seminar Saltlux also introduced [IN2]Discovery that is being launched in May this year. [IN2]Discovery is a semantic search platform that provides insight through reorganization and analysis of information, and that helps for the decision making through discovery and utilization of hidden information.

Saltlux is planning to hold a seminar on analysis and utilization of information in commemoration of [IN2]Discovery launch under the theme of “Search and Discovery that leads the knowledge world, the second story” late May.

Saltlux Holds a Seminar On [IN2]SearchBox, a New Hardware Integrated Search Solution

April 12, 2009 •
“On April 27, 2009, come, see and experience an innovative way for sharing and utilization for valuable document and new business opportunity with one SearchBox.”

Does your company well utilize your scattered and hidden in-house valuable documents as knowledge assets?
Are you hesitating to introduce a system because you do not know the solution or the cost?
Saltlux Inc. is going to suggest a cost innovative and a reasonable alternative for the activation of document resources of your company in this economically difficult situation.
The first seminar of “Search & Discovery that leads the knowledge world” will be on “[IN2]SearchBox:-
[IN2]SearchBox : storing, sharing and utilization are settled one for all.”


Date and time:- April 27, 20092009; 14:00 ~ 17:00
Venue:- Grand ballroom #101, Hotel CoEx Intercontinental, Samsung-dong, Seoul
Pre-registration:-First 150 registrants by April 25, 2009 through online will be first served
(Admission is free for the first 150 registrants through online (www.saltlux.com)

Agenda
13:00 ~ 14:00 Registration & Product Exhibition

Fist session: On [IN2]SearchBox, new utilization of documents and information

14:00 ~ 14:20 Opening & Keynote : Saltlux Solution & Product Loadmap
14:20 ~ 14:50 [IN2]SearchBox, an alternative way for activation of knowledge ecosystem
14:50 ~ 15:10 Japanese case study of SearchBox
15:10 ~ 15:30 Domestic case study of SearchBox
15:30 ~ 16:00 Coffee Break & Product Exhibition

Second Session: Search & Semantic utilization Solution

16:00 ~ 16:25 Creation of semantic data and search for economic value improvement
16:25 ~ 16:50 Search & Discovery, a lead for knowledge world
16:50 ~ 17:00 Q&A , Drawing for free gift
17:00 ~ 18:00 Product Exhibition & Network

What are the introduction effects of SearchBox?

April 8, 2009
SearchBox improves productivity and economic efficiency through quick construction and introduction, diversified search functions, and easy and convenient interface.
SearchBox also improves and promotes utility of knowledge information through information analysis and retrieval in the huge quantity of documents.
With a single SearchBox it is possible to automatically collect and safely save the documents that are distributed and piled in individual PC and file server, and the documents can be shared by the members of an organization by a single clicking. It is also possible to find out the needed document accurately and quickly through the powerful search functions with a safe security through the functions of right limitations for reading/access/interception to folders and documents.
Automatic collection of all the documents in an organization
By a setting it is possible to automatically collect document that used to be manually uploaded to external hardware and file server. No more worries may be made by retirement/leave/position movement/loss.

Safe storage of collected documents
Automatic back-up and security maintenance of automatically collected documents are possible through archiving function even when the original document is lost, and the deleted documents from the shared folder can be restored through automatic move to deleted file box.

Management of document history and version
Content modification history of document existing in the shared folder can automatically be copied and stored in SearchBox and no need to worry about loss of the original document.

Convenient document sharing by a click
Breaking from the way of sharing by e-mail/messenger/file server/USB memory, documents may be shared with others by one click, and a certain chosen users may utilize the documents through document automatic classification by division or job position.

Maximization of document assets piled in an organization
Various documents and information assets that used to be accumulated in file server, web hard, storage, e-mail may closely be inspected on web browser and the utility of the knowledge information may be improved through quick and effective retrieval.

Minimization of introduction cost for HW and SW
With one SearchBox some million Won cost that used to be invested for storage server, document management system, database server, search engine, document filter server, web/security/account management server together with the human resources cost can be saved.

Concept and Feature of SearchBox

March 31, 2009 • Filed Under SearchBox: Hardware integrated Search Server
Secured Archiving, Easy Sharing, Efficient Utilizing
[IN2]SearchBox, the Hardware Integrated SearchBox enables Collection, Archive, Share, and Utilization of Documents.

Safe Collection & Archive
Safe Back-up and archive of documents could be possible through functions of automatic collection, document history and version management of secured in-house documents and information.

Convenient Sharing and Search
Document Utilization could be maximized through convenient sharing and intellectual Search function of powerful security and ACL based in-house documents and information

Effective Analysis and Utilization
Effective analysis and utilization of in-house document and information through text mining function based on semantic technologies such as automatic clustering, classification, summarization and similarity search by semantic analysis of document.

Intellectual Search
[IN2]SearchBox quickly and accurately provides intellectual search functions such as folder search, table/graph/image searches, automatic document transfer, whole sentence preview in addition to the integrated search function.

Easy operation management
Plug & play installation and web based management wizard functions enable user to easily install and operate the system without IT specialist.

Inexpensive Introduction Cost
[IN2]SearchBox is not expensive to introduce for an enterprise even though it provides document storage functions for file server/web hard/storage/EDM, search function and text mining function simultaneously.

World first Semantic Portal System developed by Saltlux Inc.

Saltlux, one of the global leaders in the information mining and semantic web technology market is leading the change of existing web environment to advanced next generation web environment through the world first introduction of Enterprise Semantic Portal (ESP).

Semantic portal, a product of collective intelligence adopted WiKi and web 2.0 produced Blog was co-developed by Saltlux and KAIST as one of the national project of ‘CoreOnto’ under the support of the Ministry of Knowledge and Economy, and is now in test service in Saltlux Homepage.

CoreOnto project was to build “national IT ontology” for the utilization as a standard in national and global IT fields for which Saltlux has participated in the creation of ontology instances and intellectual service system development.

In the semantic portal it is easy to change the created contents into semantic web environment adoptable data through WiKi and Blog because the semantic portal has loaded Saltlux’s proprietary ‘Semantic Metadata Editor (SeMEditor)’.

What is more, the semantic metadata created by SeMEditor improves user’s data accessibility through share and recycling of the data, and enhances the business efficiency (cost saving effect). Saltlux plans to upgrade the semantic portal to the level of ‘semantic portal platform’ after the stability stage of the semantic portal for various business applications.

The outcome from this project is the world first result developed in the course of expansion of commercialization efforts for the semantic web technology that is progressed around Europe and U.S.A.
Saltlux will accelerate to penetrate into the global market through improved global competitiveness based on the technological superiority.

Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux says, “Some globally distinguished big companies including Sun Micro Systems and Google are using WiKi system for the in company knowledge share and business efficiency, and many of local Korean companies use blog for the public relation and content distribution. Saltlux will work hard to make richer semantic world through enabling common users to easily create semantic metadata simultaneously to the creation of contents.”

SearchBox Knocks Global Market.

SearchBox has knocked the global market from the CeBIT 2009 Exhibition held in Hanover Germany during the 6 day period from March 3 to 8. 4,300 IT companies from all around the world participated to the exhibition in the sections for customer electronics, software, IT infrastructure, and next generation of e-solutions and so on.
76 companies were participated from Korea to the exhibition in the Korea House where 3 group booths of KOTRA, Seoul City and Gangnam-gu attracted world focus among the exhibition.
Saltlux Inc., one of the leading retrieval technology specialized company participated to the CeBIT for the firs time this year to show SearchBox, the appliance type enterprise intranet search server and drawn participant’s attention as a new promising technology.
SearchBox is hardware integrated search server that could be used simultaneously with the construction and adaptation to intranet system by user who does not have a good IT knowledge because of the simple setting of Plug & Play method. Saltlux advertised for the SearchBox sales partners and talked with booth visitor at the CeBIT Exhibition. As a result it looks like to secure the global sales network with some successful sales contracts more than expected within the first half of the year.
Tony Lee, the CEO of Saltlux says, “We have received order of evaluation version of SearchBox from more than 50 companies all around the world at CeBIT. And we are expecting a good fruit for harvest because of the successful show and many favorable criticisms at the CeBIT.”
This year’s CeBIT showed some reduction with 25% decrease in number of participating companies, 20% decrease in exhibition area, and the number of visitors was at the level of 1990. However, it was also recorded as a successful one if the general world economy crisis is considered. The key word at the show was ‘Webciety’ which means web society, and the ‘Green IT’ exhibition zone was expanded by 5 times in comparison to that of last year because of the increased importance of the energy saving and environment.
CeBIT this year was good for small and medium IT ventures with power of technology rather that big business conglomerates, and because of the economic environment cost saving and the niche market were becoming an important trends in the business.
The CeBIT 2009 was ended with those small and medium enterprises activities to make the difficult situation changed to opportunistic the development of overseas market.

Saltlux starts to sell its [IN2]SearchBox into Japanese Market

Saltlux Inc., one of the global leaders in information mining and semantic web market announced that they have contracted an agreement of sales of [IN2]SearchBox in Japanese market with Samuraiz Corp.
[IN2]SearchBox is a text mining technology applied search appliance system that has been sold to various organizations including government offices such as KIPO and Seoul Metropolitan City Gov't, and other conglomerated corporations in Korea.
Samuraiz Corp. is a Japanese solution sales specialized company who has sold their proprietary Enterprise Web Solution to Korean market through KOTRA, Korean Trade-Investment and Promotion Agent. Samuraiz was selected by Saltlux Inc. as the first sales agent for [IN2]SearchBox of Saltlux in Japan because of their sales and marketing performance in Korea as well as in Japan.
As an appliance product, [IN2]SearchBox is easy to install and for maintenance and management. It integrates different files to make DB and provides high functional retrievals such as object search (images, graphs, tables, etc.), semantic extension of search queries and search for similar documents. It equips web based management tool and so it surely improves ROI through its excellent productivity and economic feasibility.
ECM (Enterprise Contents Management) has been remarkably spotlighted recently by big enterprises. Even the data integration is excessively needed, not all the companies can accept it because of the high cost and additional requirement of specialists or operation manager.
And therefore, [IN2]SearchBox of Saltlux is expected to be spotlighted also in Japanese market because it will give cost saving through easy operation and rapid and accurate search of needed information.