The Blog of Saltlux

BKM Starts Step Forward Notheast Knowledge Market.

2009-11-29T23:33:00.001-08:00

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.

2009-11-24T16:08:00.000-08:00

Semantic Web Conference 2009 on December 4.

2009-11-24T16:05:00.000-08:00

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

2009-10-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-08T16:53:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-09-08T17:58:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-25T19:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-20T17:23:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-07-30T22:13:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-07-28T19:56:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-07T18:40:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-06-25T18:59:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T20:10:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T18:43:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-06-11T19:19:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-04T16:42:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-28T20:21:00.000-07:00

[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)

2009-05-21T18:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-07T21:29:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-07T17:34:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-12T18:05:00.000-07:00

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?

2009-04-09T20:52:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-31T18:28:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-03-19T17:17:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-03-15T18:56:00.000-07:00

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

2009-02-12T20:15:00.000-08:00

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.

Saltlux Inc. contracted with New Zealand firm for CMS.

2008-12-04T21:02:00.000-08:00

On last November 26, Saltlux Inc., one of the global leaders for information mining and semantic web technology has concluded a contract agreement with Straker Interactive Limited, one of the global leaders in the CMS and headquartered in New Zealand for the wholesales in the Asia-Pacific area of ShadoCMS a typical CMS product of this NZ company.
Straker Interactive, headquartered in New Zealand with branch offices in Australia, Ireland and the United State, is a Global CMS specified renowned company and is actively doing their global business through consulting services and application development for the distribution of multi-lingual intellectual CMS.
Through this contract agreement Saltlux will localize the ShadowCMS product and utilize it as a key module in the saltlux solution package in the form of OEM. Saltlux will have a more diversity of product groups with this activity and provide a wide selectivity to the customers/users.
Mr. Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux says, “Through this contract with Straker Saltlux will have higher competitiveness over the global competitors and Saltlux will not be shrunken even in the global trade depression and will be actively doing our business with a diversified product group of Saltlux to improve the Asian in addition to Korean market.”

Saltlux exports search appliance product to Japan

2008-11-02T17:37:00.000-08:00

Saltlux Inc. (www.saltlux.com), one of the global leaders in the information mining and semantic web market, announced that the company exported [IN2]SearchBox, the Appliance product of the company to Japan in October period.
[IN2]SearchBox is a plug and play type product of hardware and software that could be easily installed and used. Saltlux exported of the product to Japan before the market launch in the home market of Korea. Saltlux’s Wholesale agents Ubitech of Orix group in addition to Lentech were the importer and marketer of the product in Japanese market.
[IN2]SearchBox enables to improve the accessibility and business efficiency because of its functions of automatic clustering and summarization integrated to the search engine platform. Because of this product companies will resolve may difficulties for management of information and document through these excellent functions. And one of the biggest attractions of this product is that it could be operated by non-IT experts with lower cost.
Mr. June-Hyung Ahn, the marketing manager of Saltlux commented, “[IN2]SearchBox was highly evaluated by the test users during our introductory period in Japan and may people showed interest and paid attention. Saltlux will try to meet the customers’ need based on our technology and know-hows.”

Saltlux Inc. was selected as 3rd Term Member Company for Korea Software Ecosystem

2008-10-28T19:56:00.000-07:00

.Attempting movement to overcome the difficulties in the current international economic environment, the 3rd term of Korea Software Ecosystem launched at the Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency on October 8. “Korea SW Ecosystem Project” has started in 2006 based on the keywords of “Global”, “Mutual survival” and “Innovation”, supporting SW industries challenge toward global market through participations of the government, big, medium and small enterprises, Korea Microsoft.
11 companies were selected for the 3rd term member company based on the growth capability, business stability, transparency and globalization capability, and Saltlux won the best prize among these 11 companies. Mr. Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux delivered a speech at the launch meeting, representing all the 11 companies selected.
Tony said in the speech, “It is necessary to pay efforts for creation of the global standard and need continuous challenge to have SW industries developed. We hope that the value of the Korean software will be increased through mutual cooperation and accordingly growth by activation of the industry and the organization.”
Saltlux Inc. is one of the global leading companies in information mining and semantic web market. The company has been participating as the only the member company from Asia to FP6 (SUPPER Project) and FP7 (LarKC Project), the biggest European fund projects. Saltlux has exported [IN2], its proprietary search solution to European Union.

Tony Lee invited to ISWC 2008 for a Speech on “Semantic Web in Asia: Example Use Cases”

2008-10-28T18:44:00.000-07:00

Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux Inc, one of the global leader in semantic web technology headquartered in Seoul, Korea, will deliver a speech at the ISWC 2008 being held at Karlsruhe, Germany under the title of “Semantic Web in Asia: Example use cases”
Tony will introduce about the current status and the developmental possibilities of the Asian semantic web technology market by reviewing the commercialization use example cases that Saltlux carried out recently including Artificial Intelligence Mobile Service for KTF, u-City for Samsung SDS, Semantic search system for Korea National Archives, and other significant cases.
Some of the invited speakers are from Yahoo, Microsoft, and SAP.
Saltlux is participating to the ISWC 2008 as one of the Silver Sponsors.

A Global Review of the Semantic Web Industry

2008-10-08T00:47:00.000-07:00

Today sees the publication of a new report by Boston-based David Provost. On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry (PDF) features David’s analysis of the space, informed by detailed conversations with representatives from many of its leading companies, and the picture he paints is an optimistic one.
From the Executive Summary,
“The Semantic Web is proving itself as a commercially competitive technology.
With every passing day, the vendors profiled in this report gather more evidence that drives this point home. For several years the Semantic Web has been portrayed as full of promise, yet real-world evidence articulated in plain, non-technical language has been in short supply.
…
At the most basic level, both early stage companies and seasoned, global companies are investing in the Semantic Web because of the clear role they see for the technology in the achievement of their overarching strategic objectives.
Intriguing possibilities are emerging, such as the role of ‘linked data’, Social Network Analysis and how the Semantic Web may aid this practice, and how the convergence of Natural Language Processing, Semantically enabled search, and the traditional publishing industry will play out. Time will tell, but the potential effects could be substantial.”
These views mirror those of other experts, such as the group assembled in Vienna last week. We are seeing repeated and sustainable shifts beyond academic discourse and experimentation toward sound strategic investments in Semantic Web capabilities that meet individual, organisational and federated needs moving forward.
When asked why he undertook the study in the first place, David responded;
“The Semantic Web is a difficult concept for non-technical people to grasp, and I wanted to write a plain-language report discussing the industry vendors, their products, and how these products are being used, as well as the business cases underlying highly visible, publicly accessible deployments like Calais, Twine, and Searchmonkey.”
The bulk of the report is given over to usefully normalised profiles of seventeen companies active in the Semantic Technology space today; seventeen is a small sample of the whole, but appears pretty representative of the most prevalent market segments (four identified as offering some form of Middleware; six offer one form of ‘platform’ or another; five are concerned with Natural Language Processing (NLP); four with database solutions; four are tackling ontologies; three profess significant search capability; two deliver consumer applications; and three host developer-friendly web services). Although superficially apparent from the breakdown above, a little more digging was required to see where each lay in relation to the current market split between semantics companies and Semantic Web companies; a split that Jim Hendler describes better than I. I am increasingly of the opinion that it is those companies that fully and unreservedly embrace the Web that will see the most profound transformative benefits. Without being truly ‘of the Web,’ the application of semantic technologies remains useful… but leads to merely incremental benefits.
The seventeen are;
• Aduna
• Calais [listen to my podcast with Clearforest CEO Barak Pridor]
• Cambridge Semantics [listen to my podcast with President and CTO Sean Martin]
• Dow Jones Client Solutions [listen to my podcast with Global Director of Semantic Technology Solutions, Christine Connors]
• Expert System [my podcast with Brooke Aker has been rescheduled, and should take place tomorrow…]
• Franz
• Mondeca
• ontoprise
• Ontos
• OpenLink Software [listen to my podcast with President and CEO Kingsley Idehen]
• Primal Fusion
• Saltlux
• Sindice [listen to my colleague Danny Ayers’ podcast with Richard Cyganiak]
• Thetus
• TopQuadrant [listen to my podcast with Chief Scientist Dean Allemang]
• Twine [listen to my podcast with Founder and CEO Nova Spivack]
• Yahoo! SearchMonkey [listen to my podcast with Peter Mika]
Ten of the featured companies are North American, six European, and one South Korean.
As the report notes;
“Importantly, some companies are beginning to focus on specific uses of Semantic technology to create solutions in areas like knowledge management, risk management, content management, and more. This is a key development in the Semantic Web industry because until fairly recently, most vendors simply sold development tools. In turn, customer organizations would use these tools to create solutions that suited their own internal needs. Obviously, this strategy limits the addressable market to those customers that have the knowledge, time, money, and motivation to invest in such a bottom-up approach.
By emphasizing solutions, vendors can more sharply focus their development and sales efforts.”
“Semantic Web technology and solutions based on this technology are competitive with ‘traditional’ Information Technology.”
“The Semantic Web industry is alive, well, and it’s increasingly competitive as a commercial technology. At this point, there are too many success stories and too much money being invested to dismiss the technology as non-viable. The Semantic Web is presently building a track record, which means the big wins and unanticipated uses are yet to come. In the meantime, adoption is occurring, and the early news is very good indeed.”
And put on the spot to briefly outline his take-home from the report, David concluded;
“The business value of the Semantic Web has moved away from being a debate to the point where the technology is proving itself to be commercially competitive. Increasingly, innovators, entrepreneurs, and business managers are beginning to understand how to recognize, define, and pursue the market opportunities made possible by this technology.”
Hear hear.
David’s report offers a useful snapshot across part of a nascent industry, and often provides more insight into the featured companies than can be gleaned by reading and re-reading their frequently opaque web sites. It would be interesting to see this effort extended to cover more companies (perhaps a job with which the Semantic Exchange could engage?), as well as some scope for greater critique where necessary.

Introduction of Owlim, Semantic Search Web Service

2008-09-02T22:05:00.000-07:00

At the ‘Search Technology Summit 2008’, the search software technology conference held in the Hotel Intercontinental on September 2nd, Albert Ahn of Saltlux Inc commented, “With the current search engines the netizen are not able to see the forest for the trees. And Saltlux Inc is ready to launch the new search technology, the ‘topic rank’ for the improvement of this issue.” Albert continued to say that the topic rank will enable the netizen to visually recognize the relationships or connectivity of quantitatively huge amount of information full in the internet.
For example, when a netizen inputs a word ‘BEEF’ in the search window, the monitor show the 2 dimensional display of the related words such as ‘mad cow disease, or BSE’, ‘candlelight rally’ in the form of spider web just under the sear window. It has conceptual difference with current search systems where it shows sentences with the same input ‘word’ from blogs, cafés, or articles.
Netizen can recognize the connectivity with only inputting a certain ‘search word’. Albert explained, “One may recognize through utilization of topic rank without reading any newspaper articles that mad cow disease issue raised when Korean government approved beef import from U.S.A. in partial fulfillment of Korea America FTA and then candlelight rally has happened.”
Mr. Ahn clarifies that a netizen may naturally search in the monitor such words difficult to correctly memorize like ‘Creutzfeldt’, ‘Jacob Disease’, ‘vCJD’ when he searches ‘mad cow disease’ utilizing the topic rank technology. And the relationship or connectivity of each words may easily be understood.
This kind of concept service in under developed and will be launched by several companies including Saltlux Inc. (www.saltlux.com).
(Reproduced from DongA Science dated 09-03-2008)

[IN2]-Best Product Award of the Year by Digital Times

2008-06-24T22:21:00.000-07:00

SEOUL, Korea, June 24, 2008-Saltlux Inc. a leading semantic web technology and service provider for Asia yesterday announced that [IN2], the contents analysis mining platform was selected as the best customer satisfaction award product in the search solution area by Digital Times(http://www.dt.co.kr) for the 1st half of the year.
Based on the search 2.0 and semantic web technology, [IN2] shows superiority in quality through high quality language analyzer, rich multi-language resources, and text mining technologies over the existing retrieval engines that only list the search results without relationship.
[IN2] enables to search unstructured document units in a document such as tables, figures, graphs and motion pictures in addition to the structured knowledge stored in database. [IN2] also improves the information accessibility through providing the highlighting function of the documents by locating the right position in the retrieved document. It also enhances the knowledge utility through analysis of the knowledge characteristics and expanding to the related information.
The marketing manager of Saltlux says “Mining technology adapted [IN2] attracts interests of many enterprises who want to utilize and regenerate the knowledge information because of its automatic classification, clustering summarization and retrieval of information.”
[IN2] also enables individually customized information recommendation and context awareness based search service through intellectual retrieval induced by reasoning.
[IN2], GS certified last year, is able to provide the various solutionized structured module to customers and maximizes the service utilization through API (Application Programming Interface) and mash-up.
It also enhances the business efficiency and cost saving effects through service component recycling.
Mr. Tony Lee, CEO and the President of Saltlux says, “New technologies and paradigms are making the IT market changed as seen from the Gartner’s report that the top ten innovation technology for the period of 2008~2012 will include mash-up, social network, and semantic web. The new search needs created by these change of environment will be satisfied by [IN2] that is targeting ‘excavating the knowledge’.”

Saltlux supplies Search solution to IDG Korea

2008-06-12T23:20:00.000-07:00

SEOUL, Korea, June 13, 2008 –Saltlux Inc., a leading semantic web technology and service provider for Asia, today announced that the company will supply the integrated search solution to IDG Korea, one of the leading online information media group in Korea.
With this IDG Korea plans to give changes to IT World which is the company’s information media portal site acquired in 2005. Saltlux has suggested to IDG adding various contents such as people, market, documents, video, photo, etc. With this IDG expects reactivation of online information share through providing wider variety and in-depth information.
In addition, Saltlux will enhance the information accessibility of users through building the automatic functions such as core key word retrieval, document summarization and tagging/correcting/deleting the keywords. Based on this IDG Korea foresees that the users’ satisfaction of IT World will be improved due to the utilization of the needed search results as for the important information when the users make the decision.
[IN2] of Saltlux is search 2.0 based service oriented intellectual search platform and can be supplied by its component solutions unit and can be utilized to various fields as it has application of retrieval, mining, semantic technologies etc. High expandability and system integration characteristics of [IN2] Platform enable excellent cost saving effect due to its usability with connection of various other systems.
Marketing Manager of Saltlux says, “Users are confused because of the explosive increase of newer knowledge before they understand the existing knowledge. And they can not even search the right knowledge that they want from the tremendous amount of information. We hope that more companies could enhance their competitiveness and productivity through the experiences on [IN2]”
With a global network in 85 countries in the world IDG is a world leader in information media providing various products and services. In 2005 IDG Korea was established and acquired IT World to satisfy the IT customers’ information needs.

Across Systems and Korean Localization Provider Saltlux Sign Strategic Agreement

2008-06-08T19:12:00.000-07:00

Reseller and integration agreement deploying Across Language Server technology supports international customers

SEOUL, Korea, KARLSBAD, Germany and GLENDALE, Calif. – June 5, 2008 – Across Systems, supplier of the world's leading independent linguistic supply chain technology, and Saltlux, a leading localization service and linguistic technology provider for Asia, today signed a strategic partnership agreement. Saltlux will become a reseller for and integrator of Across Language Server technology, providing its customers with a comprehensive, centralized server platform for efficient translation workflow and processes. Saltlux will integrate Language Server technology into its own localization and translation service, as well as distribute and deploy it to customers.

In advance of the Localization World Conference, to be held in Berlin from June 9-11, executives from both companies met in Karlsbad to finalize details of the agreement before attending the conference, where both companies are major sponsors. Saltlux’s core business is to provide services and technologies for multilingual content and globalization. Saltlux gains rights to distribute the Across Language Server technology in Asia, including Korea, Japan and China, and through its subsidiaries in Europe and the United States.

Kyung-il Lee, president and CEO of Saltlux, said, “An efficient linguistic supply chain is a crucial element that adds value to our customers. With the Across Language Server, we bring them cost savings, process reliability, and quality improvement.”

The Across Language Server is a centralized platform for all corporate language resources that provides an end-to-end linguistics solution. Besides offering authoring assistance, translation memory and a terminology system, it also includes powerful project management and workflow controls. Its distinguishing feature is its ability to enable customers, agencies and translators to seamlessly work with the same data. Open interfaces enable the seamless integration of corresponding systems such as Content Management Systems (CMS) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.

Across CEO Niko Henschen states, “This partnership with Saltlux is an important step to increase our presence in Asia. We are confident that we have chosen a great partner to help us gain significant market share worldwide.”

About Saltlux
Saltlux is an innovation partner for global business and information management. The company adds usefulness and value to customers’ knowledge assets by integrating and providing knowledge content, publications, glaobization services, and information searching and mining solutions. For more information, see www.saltlux.com

About Across Systems
Across Systems (www.across.net ), based in Karlsbad, Germany, and in Glendale, CA, is the manufacturer of the Across Language Server – the world's leading independent linguistic supply chain technology.
The Across Language Server is a central software platform for all corporate language resources and for controlling translation processes and workflows. The system simplifies, accelerates, and improves the management, coordination, and implementation of translations. Open interfaces enable the direct integration of corresponding systems, e.g. CMS, catalog, or ERP solutions. By using Across, translation costs can be cut drastically, and the investment in Across usually pays off in a very short time.

Translation Experience Event for 29th Foundation Day of Saltlux

2008-05-16T00:27:00.000-07:00

Saltlux Inc., a multilingual translation and technical contents globalization company, announced that the company will conduct an event for the high quality translation experience for the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the company’s foundation.
This promotional event is to begin with the application from non-customer companies. Selected companies will be notified and can experience with a quality translation of fewer than 10,000 words of original documents.
Saltlux will adopt the mileage system for existing customers. Their translation service fee will be discounted as much as the saved mileage. This promotion program will be continued from May 19th to June 16th.
Saltlux has started its technical contents localization business since 1979 under the name of Mobico Co. Ltd, and business field has been expanded to IT based language and documentation processing corporation through merge and acquisition of Sysmeta Corporate who retained language information process technology in 2003.
After the M&A Saltlux has operated two different business division; i.e., the Technical Documentation Division where the total services are provided such as technical writing, technical translation, localization of software and web contents, and live manual production; the IT division where the services based on search 2.0 and semantic web technology are provided.
TD business of Saltlux does especially contribute to considerable customer's cost reduction, reduction of production period, maintaining of quality consistency and improvement of customer corporate image through maintaining global standard quality, construction of standard terminology/sentence, production of customized style guide, and development of various standard templates.

Saltlux Inc., Silver sponsor for SemTech 2008 or STC 2008

2008-05-15T20:29:00.000-07:00

Saltlux Inc., one of the leading company on semantic web and information retrieval technology, announced that the company is participating to the “2008 Semantic Technology Conference” (STC 2008 or SemTech 2008) being held in San Jose, California, U.S.A. during the week of May 18th, 2008 as one of the Silver sponsors. At this opportunity Saltlux will be the company who will show the Korean semantic technology to the world.
STC 2008 is a world renowned annual industry oriented semantic related international scientific conference. There will be Paper Reading Sessions, Key Note Speeches and Tutorials during the conference period of STC 2008, and it will be the place for information share, public relations and learning of semantic technologies.
Saltlux is to participating as a silver sponsor to this conference again followed by 2007.
Mr. Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux, is to read a paper titled "Personalized Content Delivery System for Intelligent Mobile Services” in the afternoon session on May 20. Saltlux will also show the demonstration of OPTIMA (Ontology Population Tool based on Information extraction and MAtching) and COMET (Common Ontology Modeling EnvironmenT) in a booth where 11 success stories of semantic construction cases will be introduced to visitors. Through these activities Saltlux will show the Korean semantic technology level to the world, expand the international network, and promote its semantic products sales to other countries in the world.
It is forecasted that the world semantic technology market will be U.S.$20 billion by 2010. And various projects are being proactively supported and proceeded on Semantic technology by many software and internet related enterprises such as ORACLE, IBM, MS, SUN and many others in Europe and Americas.

System Development for “Building Design Map Project” of KIPO by Saltlux Inc.

2008-05-15T19:40:00.000-07:00

Saltlux Inc., a leading company for the Search 2.0 and semantic web technology, announced that the company was selected as the system developer and a search engine supplier for the “Design Map Building” project by Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), one of the Korean government agencies.
The Design Map Building project was planed as a way to have the nation utilize the information of the domestic and global registered designs and new designs, to produce the design map classification system by unit material and to provide bibliography and DB construction of image information by item, and to provide the information retrieval and quantitative analysis of preceding design through web based services to the nation.
Saltlux will provide variety of searches such as search by sorts of DB, integrated search, bibliographical search, periodical search, search by types, search by disputes, similarity search of design.
This project is being established under the government objective to enter into the Global Design 7 group through bringing up the knowledge intensive design industry that enables to promote the added value of commercial items.
The project is focused to strengthen the national competitiveness through the design competitiveness by providing the KIPO retained design application review data to the public after the analysis and process.
Saltlux plans to show patent search service by web based service through more improved [IN2] search platform based on its 2005 process experiences from the project of the “Building Proceeding Technology Automatic Comparison System” that retrieves the patent similarities through automatic analysis of patent documents and supports document based retrieval from the global data.
Saltlux’s [IN2], market launched second half of 2007, offers optimized business environment to customers through enabling to manage and utilize the discovery of hidden and dead information as enterprise’s assets through text mining technology by understanding the characteristics, semantics and relationship from the huge amount of information stored in and enterprise.
By semantic unit information and knowledge from unstructured documents retrieval by utilization of semantic technology, change these information to ontology based instances, and providing functions that enable the knowledge base construction, customers will be helped to use information easily with satisfaction and more values.

KM&ECM Conference 2008

2008-04-15T22:04:00.000-07:00

Saltlux Inc. has participated to the seminars and exhibition in the “KCM&ECM Conference 2008 for Realization of Enterprise 2.0” held on March 20 at the grand ballroom of Hotel Co-Ex Intercontinental.
At the conference Saltlux presented at the paper reading session on the topic of “Semantic Discovery: Search 2.0 for the knowledge utilization in the information excessive era.” And suggested the way to enable companies may improve the competitiveness and productivity through information mining technology that can enhance user’s accessibility by mutual harmonization of information and documents.
Saltlux has attracted the participators interests by showing various customized advanced technologies to user needs such as visualized clustering, individualized information recommendation, automatic summarization, user participation, etc. Saltlux was the only company among participants who show the ontology based information search system and showed its strength as the leader in the semantic web technology field of business.
A group of 16 global companies participated to this conference to discuss and introduce the next generation search 2.0 and web 2.0 in relation to the current internet market trends. Through the discussion and the introduction the enterprises and the government organization would understand their effects resulted from the introduction of these technologies.
Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux, and the Vice President of the Korean Society for KM&EDM, said, “The conference has successfully completed drawing attraction of customers even though the number of participants are not large enough because of the name change from KM&EDMS to KM&ECM. And Saltlux will pay great attention to continuously do R&D activities helping customer enterprises to materialize the knowledge infrastructures for innovative knowledge management, productivity improvement and accordingly the cost savings.”

LarkC Project Kick-off Meeting for EU FP7

2008-04-13T22:59:00.000-07:00

The Large Knowledge Collider (LARKC) Project Kick-off Meeting will be started April 15th and continued upto 17th in Innsbruck, Austria.
Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. will be participating to the meeting as the company is the only partner from Asian countries selected for the project.
The LARKC is the Europen biggest project with 4 million Euro budget for the period of 7 years and is a consortium project with the participation of Saltlux together with WHO, Siemens, CYCORP, UIBK, Univ. Sheffield and 7 other world renown academic and industrial organizations. Drs Dieter Fensel, Frank Van Harmelen and Hamish Cunningham are some of the participants from those organizations.
It is forecasted that this project will provide innovative technology basis to the next generation intelligent mobile services and biomedical research through development of practical reasoning system at the real time level against 10 billion or more triples.
In the project Saltlux will be responsible for building use case utilizing super large triple storage and reasoning engine of [IN2]SOR, the Saltlux’s proprietary technology. In the kick-off meeting all of the 13 consortium organizations will get together and discuss on the direction of project development, roles of each organizations and common missions for the project.
In the project Saltlux will show its own technology that will apply the reasoning engine in the super large scale environment which is the core task in the semantic technology

Korean Society of Data Mining Spring Conference, 2008

2008-04-13T22:08:00.000-07:00

Saltlux Inc., one of the leading company in Search 2.0 and Semantic web technology has participated to the 2008 Business Intelligence Conference and the Spring Conference of Korean Society of Business Intelligent Data Mining as a sponsor and has presented research papers.
It became that the third wave world is not new any more in the era because of the advanced IT industry, diversification of information, and the speedily change of the knowledge base production. Before the recognition of the existing knowledge the new information is accumulated tremendously, and the users would not be possible to find the really needed information.
Contents such as PC, GW and EDMS are cumulated everywhere in the corporate existing in the forms of texts, animations, offices and documents. However, it is not easy to find the way of utilization of these forms. To find out the information for the right decision they have to spend time and cost without success and the work efficiency used to be very low.
As to provide a solution to these issues Saltlux will make a presentation on the topic of “Semantic Mining and Analysis.” In the presentation Saltlux has tried to elevate the knowledge content usability through suggestion of ‘Content Analysis and Mining Platform.’ The content analysis and mining platform means the framework that enables business intelligence (BI) through management analysis and discovery of information by retrieval and semantic tagging of document characteristics targeted to structured and unstructured data existing in the corporate. This will help to discover the hidden information through understanding the relationship between the information and the meaning.

Business Search Viewed by Google

2008-04-06T21:41:00.000-07:00

When you hear about the fight opposing Microsoft and Google you would think above all about the search engines. MSN Live Search seeking to grasp market shares from Google and Yahoo! However there is another sector where Google and Microsoft conflict: the business intranet search.

This article speak of a component of knowledge management. This field, dear to me, is very different from the public search engines. It does not aim at inquiring inter-connected text pages but instead documents in many different formats. Moreover, it is not about raw information but often contextualized data. Lastly, ordering files by popularity according to the links pointing at them is meaningless in the magma of company‘s files. On the contrary, relevance of an answer will perhaps be a date, a related subject in an abstract or related in progress projects. Thus, it is clear, even if both sector are about search, the two are quite distinct approach.
This market have been estimated at 13 billion of dollar by Steve Balmer (Microsoft CEO). This better explaining why Kevin Turner (Microsoft Chief Operating Officer) announced in a partners conference “Enterprise search is our business, it’s our house and Google is not going to take that business”. The battle plan is now disclosed and the means are huge knowing that Microsoft spent last year more than 6 billions dollars in R&D which approximate the total sales turnover of Google in the same year.
Let us focus a moment on Google offer , it is about a search engine based on a server which the company can at some level customize. Therefore there is no data outsourcing. It is based on an algorithm said to be very different from the one used to order the Web. With starting price of $30.000, Google solution is far from the free services we are used to. The importance of this activity is highlighted by the presence of a direct link on the very Google’s home page always so neat and hard to reach for new brand.
One of the obstacle in developing these solutions is the frail notoriety that Google has as services supplier to businesses in spite of its public fame. One of Google’s strength seems to be its capacity to establish partnerships with companies which has already a strong expertise in data processing and data mining like with BearingPoint , during last February. The second benefit would be to multiple its sources of income which are currently at 99% obtained form advertising. This being strongly criticized by financial analysts. But as for now, the Google solution (Google Search Appliance), launched 4 years ago, only adds up some 6000 customers counting some big European players which were clumsily provided by Google himself (Orange, Ericsson, Accenture...).
Thus strong competition will prevail, and with the current coming out of Windows Vista, Microsoft recalls us that he is an actor impossible to circumvent for many, many businesses and it can therefore take an ideal position to meet first the enterprise’s needs in term of data management. In addition IBM and Yahoo! have lately announced the launching of a free software dedicated to enterprise search. Everyone want its piece of the cake.
If you use such systems in your company, can you tell us about your feelings on the matter, on a technical level as well as on the economic one.

By Alexandre VERNO

Source: http://www.agoravox.com/article.php3?id_article=5471

Saltlux joined in STI2 as a Full membership

2008-03-13T23:00:00.000-07:00

Saltlux Inc. announced that the company officially joined in STI2 (Semantic Technology Institute International) that is being operated in Vienna, Austria.
STI2 is an international organization incorporated by the related academic world, industries and government organizations with the common vision and is recognized as the out-set of ESSI, European FP6 Project Knowledge Web and DERI International.
As the Representative of STI2, Prof. Dieter Fensel represents semantic web science and his academic achievements and industrial applications of the achievement have been widely recognized. Saltlux has joined Asia first to this organization and will secure its position as the leader of the industry.
STI2 is proactive as a global leader including focusing into the new concept business model development for the smooth improvement of communication and mutual actions between human being and enterprise utilizing semantic technology.
Marketing Manager of Saltlux says, “Joining to STI2 enables securing international networks and will contribute to the development of international semantic technology and its market.”

Saltlux Builds Korea largest tour portal based on Search 2.0

2008-03-13T19:31:00.000-07:00

Saltlux Inc., a global leader for Search 2.0 and semantic web technology, announced that the company received an order for the project of site renewal of Qubi and service improvement.
Saltlux is planning to strengthen the expertise of tourism information services through building of national services for the tour portal business, and plans to improve the search quality through renovation of Search 2.0 based search function.
Customer accessibility and convenience will be strengthened through repositioning of the Qubi to communication channel for the integrated marketing platform business with the providing the customer active sponsor and contents registration system.
The renovation work of tourism information service which is the key point of this project will introduce the Search 2.0, the core technology of Saltlux, and domesticate the countermeasure to the large scale data environment and the expandability to the new services.
It enables the utilization as social media as the ranking of the search result can be adjusted through user’s participation using providing the search result according to the user’s search history and individual preference, and will adequately answer or provide the searched document on the related locality information, transportation information, tourism knowledge, club information, etc. through the accurate search of point of interest by analyzing user’s semantic queries.
Saltlux says, “Saltlux has introduced a new paradigm of search business utilizing search 2.0, and is planning to open a search service by itself during the second half of this year to meet the social needs from the market in the service market together with the Enterprise market.”

Saltlux participates to the KM & ECM Conference 2008

2008-03-12T00:06:00.000-07:00

Saltlux Inc. is participating to the KM & ECM Conference for the Realization of Enterprise 2.0 being held at the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel COEX Intercontinental on March 10th.
Saltlux will make a presentation with the topic of “Semantic Discovery: Search 2.0 for the knowledge utilization in the information oversupply era.” In the presentation Saltlux will suggest Search 2.0 to clarify semantic relationship of information to find the solutions for the difficulties in search. It will improve the productivity and competitiveness of an enterprise through information mining technology by user’s accessibility through organization of information and documents.
[IN2], the service oriented intellectual platform and ontology based information retrieval system, topic search service utilizing information mining and semantic technology will be demonstrated in the conference as an exhibition.
Saltlux was selected as Asia 200 enterprises by the world renowned media group of Red Herring, and [IN2] was GS authenticated and received the Digital Innovation Award last year for its quality excellence and stability of the software.
[IN2], the Search 2.0 based platform intellectually performs the information retrieval, automatic summarization/classification/clustering from vast scale of documents that enables the time saving for the retrieval, analysis and utilization of information, big scale semantic based search through reasoning of semantic relationship and improves information accessibility.
Especially, [IN2] provides the widget based strong user interface and significantly improves the information service system development productivity through supporting the SOA and SaaS business models. It also guarantees the high economic feasibility and expendability through reusability of service components.
Saltlux says, “This year we have exported large amount of the search solution to EU market. In Japan we will aggressively be marketing this search solution to this promising market. As a result Saltlux will grow as a global leader in the future search service industry based on the technology verified in and out of the country and know-hows.”

Mobile Social Networks Hit Mass Market

2008-02-24T20:14:00.000-08:00

Social Networking Frederick Ghahramani co-founded AirG in 2000. Today the mobile social networking community has 20 million users. eMarketer spoke with him about what is driving growth and what it means for marketers.
eMarketer: What does this growth say about consumer attitudes to the mobile channel?
Frederick Ghahramani: It says that mobile-only social communities are an undisputed consumer phenomenon.

It is the mass market consumer that is driving the use of mobile content. When the right services are marketed correctly to a mass audience and can bring them together in one place on their mobile phone to chat, share photos and videos, search and check profiles, consumers will be engaged on their mobile phones?some for more than an hour each day.

eMarketer: How should marketers react to this growth? What should they do?
Mr. Ghahramani: With billions of advertising impressions generated per month there is a tremendous inventory available to marketers and advertisers to reach their target customers on their mobile phones.
eMarketer: What are user demographics like?
Mr. Ghahramani: The majority of customers spend more than an hour a day in the community. Nearly 60% don’t own a PC. Six in 10 have at least a high school education. The average annual income is $41,000, and the five most popular handsets used to access AirG all retail for less than $100 with a service contract.
The market is in a frenzy over new devices like the iPhone, but the reality is that the mass market consumer is using a handset that costs $100 or less to access mobile services.
eMarketer: How big do you think mobile social networking will get?
Mr. Ghahramani: According to Juniper Research, the number of users of mobile chat and dating services is expected to rise from just over 40 million in 2007 to 260 million in 2012, with revenues expected to exceed $1 billion in 2010.

ⓒ2007 eMarketer Inc.

New W3C Standard for Opening up Data on the Semantic Web

2008-02-24T17:12:00.000-08:00

W3C announced today the publication of SPARQL, the key standard for opening up data on the Semantic Web. With SPARQL query technology, pronounced "sparkle," people can focus on what they want to know rather than on the database technology or data format used behind the scenes to store the data. Because SPARQL queries express high-level goals, it is easier to extend them to unanticipated data sources, or even to port them to new applications.

Mashups with SPARQL
Many successful query languages exist, including standards such as SQL and XQuery. These were primarily designed for queries limited to a single product, format, type of information, or local data store. Traditionally, it has been necessary to formulate the same high-level query differently depending on application or the specific arrangement chosen for the relational database. And when querying multiple data sources it has been necessary to write logic to merge the results. These limitations have imposed higher developer costs and created barriers to incorporating new data sources.

The goal of the Semantic Web is to enable people to share, merge, and reuse data globally. SPARQL is designed for use at the scale of the Web, and thus enables queries over distributed data sources, independent of format. Creating a single query across diverse data stores is easier than having to create multiple queries; it also costs less and provides richer results.

Because SPARQL has no tie to a specific database format, it can be used to take advantage of the tidal wave of Web 2.0 data and mash it up with other Semantic Web resources. Furthermore, because disparate data sources may not have the same 'shape' or share the same properties, SPARQL is designed to query non-uniform data.

SPARQL Turns Data Access into a Web Service
The combination of the SPARQL query language and protocol creates a Web service in its purest sense; running on top of HTTP or SOAP, it provides a standard Web service for anything which asks a question.

"SPARQL's focus on querying the data models saves time for developers; there's no need for a host of little Web services to retrieve different aspects of the state of a system," explained Lee Feigenbaum, Chair of the RDF Data Access Working Group. "This allows the user of the SPARQL endpoint to ask any question -- it is as though they could design their own interface instead of having to work with a limited set of fixed services."

The SPARQL specification defines a query language and a protocol and works with the other core Semantic Web technologies from W3C: Resource Description Framework (RDF) for representing data; RDF Schema; Web Ontology Language (OWL) for building vocabularies; and Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL), for automatically extracting Semantic Web data from documents. SPARQL also makes use of other W3C standards found in Web services implementations, such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL).

About W3CThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France and Keio University in Japan,and has additional Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/

(W3C, Jan., 15th 2008, Original press release)

Enterprise Search: Trends for 2008

2008-02-21T17:26:00.000-08:00

by Adriaan Bloem

Overall, the search marketplace continues to surprise, sometimes delight, and often obfuscate prospective customers. Nevertheless, some key trends are emerging.

Refining the Experience
After nearly a decade of commentators criticizing the usability of enterprise search tools, within the past few years, vendors have begun to take note. I can't say that all innovation here constitutes improvement, but on the whole, we see a trend towards greater adoption of consumer search experiences.

Navigating Search
Search vendor Endeca may have applied for patents on "guided navigation," but the reality is that nearly every vendor can provide some degree of results categorization, be it clustering, browsable categories, or any other approach. The hype-du-jour is clicking a query together from the navigation built -- browsing the search results. Of course, distilling the terms for navigation is relatively easy when the source is structured content or when metadata can provide guidance. But it gets very much more difficult where unstructured data is in the mix: here vendors frequently differentiate according to their auto-extraction facilities that can glean facets and terms from your corpus without you having to tag documents. Your mileage will vary.

Analyzing Search
What is management without measurement? Seems obvious, but most search tools -- until recently -- had no built-in capacity to analyze the rich information found in their logs. Even today, there is wide variances among the tools.

Using analytics to improve search is a no-brainer. You can find out what people are actually looking for, what they are finding, what they are not finding, and how often. It's no replacement for focus groups and real user testing, but it's a fine complement. Unfortunately, even those systems with nice query-and-reporting interfaces often don't link directly to the administrative panels (e.g., for hit boosting or best bets) to redress the problems you find, but arming yourself with good metrics is a very useful start.

Uncrowding Search
Enterprise search vendors are consciously making their default search results look like Google's, even down to the green titles and blue hyperlinks. Why? Evidence suggests that searchers have more confidence in Googlesque results pages. Nevertheless, enterprise search is often more complicated than public web search; sometimes enterprise employees need more bells and whistles, including folders and categories and other data on the results page. That's one of the reasons why we take a scenario-based analysis to evaluating search technologies, and you should too.

Marketplace Ferment
The search marketplace continues to evolve in a herky-jerk fashion, with acquisitions (e.g., Convera to FAST and VisualSciences to Omniture) and bankruptcies (e.g., Mondosoft, Speed-of-Mind). Out of this ferment, some clear trends are emerging.

Escape from MOSS
Several enterprise search vendors did a great business by selling alternatives to the quite deficient search services within the first two versions of SharePoint. But now that Redmond has addressed SharePoint search aggressively -- at least on paper -- those companies are rapidly re-tooling to serve other customers. At least one of them, Mondosoft, did not execute well on the transition, and was purchased by a smaller competitor out of bankruptcy.

The irony is that MOSS Search is not a slam dunk. There is room for alternatives, even in Microsoft-oriented enterprises.

Decline of SaaS Search
Software-as-a-Service delivery models are hot all across the software landscape....with the exception of search. Early hosted player Blossom has faded to near obscurity. Hosted CMS vendor CrownPeak has pulled back from its (originally ambitious) plans for an advanced SaaS search offering. The grand-daddy of hosted search, Atomz, was acquired by e-commerce metrics company WebSideStory in 2005, who merged with niche analytics vendor VisualSciences, took that name, tried to sell off its assets, and was ultimately acquired by mainstream web analytics vendor Omniture. As of Q4, 2007, the future for VisualSciences' search customers remains quite unsettled. To be sure, some enterprise search vendors offer their "normal" product in a hosted environment, often in conjunction with a consulting or datacenter partner. However, these are not true, built-from-the-ground-up, multi-tenant SaaS offerings. They are managed services offerings using traditional, installed software.

There are a couple reasons for the demise of SaaS search. First, from day one it was really limited primarily to the website search scenario -- an important use case to be sure -- but not as lucrative or as high-value as multi-repository enterprise search, which depends heavily on the kind of WAN connectivity and in situ software connectors that SaaS vendors simply cannot provide today. Second, and perhaps more importantly: the dramatic rise of search appliance vendors (especially Google) has surely cut into demand for simple, web-oriented solutions of the type offered by SaaS vendors (Google itself put its basic hosted solution on hold for a few years while it waited for the Appliance to gather momentum). This doesn't mean you should avoid going the SaaS route; just sign on with your eyes open and make sure you understand the provider's future plans and focus.

Talking Search/BI Convergence
In the past year, the marketplace has seen substantial discussion and speculation about the "convergence" of big-time structured search (usually under the auspices of Business Intelligence tools) and big-time unstructured search (usually by traditional enterprise search products).

Enthusiasm was fueled when BI vendor Business Objects acquired text mining supplier, Inxight (Business Objects itself was subsequently acquired by SAP). To us, the convergence remains mostly talk. Most enterprise search tools that could retrieve information from unstructured datasets could also access and index databases as well. However, vice-versa was not always true: BI vendors -- and their customers -- don't always understand unstructured content.

Clearly, there are use-cases for this sort of convergence. For example, companies want to mine customer comments as well as customer data. But today, the two software segments remain quite distinct, mostly because customers are still trying to solve basic search and BI problems, before moving on to more advanced challenges.

Google Continues Long March to the Enterprise
This report contains a section focused on the Google Appliance, the Trojan horse of the enterprise search world. Google continues to improve its appliance -- and intimidate its competition -- even though (as you will see in our chapter), the appliance remains somewhat deficient as an enterprise search tool. Google's long-term plans for the appliance surpass simple search. Google can use it as a platform for other enterprise applications, perhaps some offered on a hosted basis. But it's a long way from the public web to the enterprise, and customers report that once you reach the limits of the appliance, you're pretty much stuck. It's a service in a box. Google found a great, underserved niche for simple search and has executed well on it. But it remains unclear whether Google the company truly understands the workaday needs of the enterprise.

Enduring Technical Challenges
One of the great surprises -- and, for many customers, disappointments -- of enterprise search is how technically challenging it becomes after you get beyond the basics. And you can get beyond the basics pretty quickly. Search and the discipline of information retrieval are among the most complex computer endeavors we face today. The nature of language itself is inherently baffling. Humans cannot make sense of some documents. Software doesn't do much better. But if technical challenges endure, then at least two trends in particular stand out today.

Platforms and Products Diverge
Is the fundamental problem with enterprise search a lack of power or a surfeit of complexity? The marketplace doesn't seem to be able to decide. Some vendors, such as IBM, continue to expand on their multifaceted search toolkits. Meanwhile, competitor Oracle is working to simplify its offering and conceal or abstract much of the underlying power. Neither approach is universally ideal, but it is a measure of a maturing market that vendors are tending to go one direction or the other. The good news for you the buyer is that you have clear choices: fulfill an immediate business need or develop long-term capacity. That debate is as old as enterprises have been adopting software. We make no judgments, but point out in our report that you have solid alternatives either way.

Application Management Conundrum
If search is a software application, then it should be managed like one. This sometimes comes as a surprise to even the most seasoned enterprise IT team who may labor under the misimpression that even a lower-end search product is "install and forget." Even the lowest-end search platforms -- and even appliances like Google -- can be configured and extended.

But, of course, configurations beg management and testing themselves. In short, enterprise search has the enduring need for proper software development lifecycles and code / configuration management.

Unfortunately, most (if not all) search platforms do not make configuration management simple. Most assume you will not have a development, staging, or QA instance of the search application itself. Many allow for overlapping code, command-line, and browser-based configurations and customizations, making it hard for administrators and developers to separate concerns.

As search tools get ever more powerful, the more it becomes incumbent on you to manage them with the same care that you manage your other complex, mission-critical applications.

*Wrapping Up
So, looking at the problem of enterprise search, you'll continue to see new buzzwords, but mostly you will continue to face the enduring challenge of collecting, securing, understanding, and displaying content. Search technology does get incrementally better, but your repositories are getting monumentally larger. Treat search like the serious project it is before you invest in any tool.

Source: http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/170-Search-Trends

From-the-Top Interview with ontoprise GmbH

2008-02-11T17:08:00.000-08:00

Written by Scott Koegler

This From-the-Top interview is with Prof. Dr. Angele Jürgen, Co-founder and CTO of Ontoprise GmbH.

SR: What is the current focus of your company's business?
Jürgen: The focus of our business is to provide mature and industry-proven Semantic Web infrastructure technologies like reasoners, ontology modeling environments, etc. to our partners and clients. Our partners create complete semantic solutions or enhance their own existing products with these technologies or directly apply our products within their customer projects. In this way, we are aiming to expand our excellent positioning as a technology and market leader.

SR: How has this focus changed in the last 2 years?
Jürgen: Having successfully implemented several projects in the industry ourselves, we noticed that an increased growth can only be achieved with a strong partner base. Thus, doing business with and via our partners became the focal point of our ambitions. We are very proud that we successfully have set up several solid and working partnerships already.

SR: What are your current initiatives?
Jürgen: From a technical point of view the “marriage” of the two different logical frameworks OWL and F-logic /Rules is the key development initiative we are undertaking, combining the advantages of both approaches. Beside that, we just started a service initiative around Semantic MediaWiki. The combination of our quality-approved distribution of Semantic MediaWiki, a set of powerful extensions for the productive use of SMW, and our high-level services is the perfect starting point for companies to introduce and operate Semantic MediaWiki in their organizations.

SR: How has the market for semantic technology changed over the last year?
Jürgen: Up to now, early adopters apply our products in productive environments. In the last year, semantic technology became more and more aware in the industry. For instance, the rate of participants from the industry at the Semtech conference in San Jose has grown strongly and there was a great atmosphere of departure. So you got the feeling that corporate Semantic Web really starts to take off, which is backed by the growing number of customers for ontoprise. What are the greatest challenges to adopting and implementing semantic technology for your customers? The challenge is to bring a new, innovative and complex technology into the mindset of the customers. Similar to database technology 30 years ago, it is a complex technology and customers have to understand the huge possibilities you gain with that technology. Furthermore, it is always important to give the customer a realistic picture of benefit from semantics.

SR: How are you helping your customers address these challenges?
Jürgen: Basically, by delivering mature and complete products focusing on real-life business needs and by showing our customers industrial references which have proven that the value is greater than the challenges. What do you believe to be the greatest contribution semantic technology will make? Semantic technologies allow us to unleash logics from applications and to bring it to a more abstract and flexible layer. This allows complex things to be described more easily and in an understandable way not only for the IT experts, and that increases the flexibility.

SR: Describe your company's position in the industry with regard to the solutions you deliver.
Jürgen: Looking at our history, our experiences and our customers, we can truly claim to provide mature and industry-proven Semantic Web infrastructure technologies. By that, we are delivering the core backbone to the SemanticWeb, setting standards together with our partners and clients. For example, we are the only company worldwide with a reasoner for both logical frameworks: OWL and F-logic/Rules.

SR: What do you believe to be the state of the industry in terms of growth, maturity, and availability of viable products to address the needs of implementers of semantic technology?
Jürgen: The market is on one hand still in an innovative state – compared to the huge possibilities of semantic technologies in general. One the other hand, we have several customers using ontologies successfully to improve their processes. Kuka Robot, one of the world’s largest suppliers of industrial robots, has just rolled-out the second generation of Kuka.Expert to their service technicians worldwide after the productive use of the first implementation for approximately 3 years.

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Prof. Dr. Angele Jürgen is Co-founder and CTO of Ontoprise GmbH, a provider of semantic technologies. In 1994, he became a full professor in applied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, Gemany. From 1989 to 1994, he was a research and teaching assistant at the University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB. He did research on the execution of the knowledge acquisition and representation language KARL, which led to a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Karlsruhe in 1993. From 1985 to 1989, he worked for the companies AEG, Konstanz, Germany, and SEMA GROUP, Ulm, Germany. He received the diploma degree in computer science in 1985 from the University of Karlsruhe. He published around 90 papers as books and journals, and as book, conference, and workshop contributions. Topics were about Semantic Web, semantic technologies, knowledge representation, and their practical applications. He is leading several research and commercial projects. He gave more than 55 courses at Berufsakademien, Fachhochschulen and Universities. Topics were about: Expert Systems, Software Engineering, World Wide Web, Database Systems, Digital Image Analysis, Computer Graphics, Mathematics. He supervised around 30 master theses and PhDs.

Source: www.semanticreport.com

“Future of the Internet Economy Conference 2008 ”

2008-01-24T17:32:00.000-08:00

The ET News will hold “Future of the Internet Economy Conference 2008 ” on January 29th at Lotte Hotel, Seoul, Korea with the topic of “Web 2.0 Economy in the age of Global Convergence.”
In the morning session the general trends of current web development and the future vision will be discussed and information will be shared through ‘Key Notes’ and ‘Overview Talk Show’ of the representatives from leading companies in the internet business industry of Korea.

At the morning session on Web 2.0 Business Leader's Open Talk Show representatives from Saltlux Inc., KT, MS, OpenMaru, Daum, Semantics will be discussing on trends and vision of the business for the direction of new search services and Mash-up Services.
Kyung-il Tony Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. will be the participant to this Open Talk Show from Saltlux Inc. and playing a key role in the talk show.

Tony Lee will also be presenting in a paper reading session with the topic of "Semantic Search inside Search 2.0."

In the afternoon session SNS Service, 3D Internet, the development direction of web 2.0 business and the next generation search technology will generally be discussed by the representatives from KT, NHN, and Semantics.

Tony Lee, commented on the Semantic Search inside Search 2.0, “At the conference we will be defining how the information can be customized and provided; how the information can be a knowledge linking each other; and how the information can be intellectualized.”

Saltlux Japan Branch Office Opened to Penetrate Asian Market.

2008-01-17T21:55:00.000-08:00

Saltlux Inc. a Search 2.0 and Semantic technology specialized company announced yesterday that the Japan Branch Office was opened to effectively penetrate into the Japanese market and further Asian market based on this Japan Branch office.
Some of the global companies headquartered in Japan such as NTT, Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu and others have paid interest and proposed collaboration for some Japanese projects based on the advanced technology from the Saltlux’s [IN2] brand useful to those projects. Saltlux has already exchanged MOU with Ubitech, a ubiquitous based intellectual information recommendation service development company, for the cooperative works in the fields of ‘Information Analysis utilizing Search and Text Mining', and ‘Context Awareness utilizing Semantic Technology’. Saltlux plans to do business together with NTT utilizing text mining technology to provide speedy and accurate information search and analysis to the Japanese users.
[IN2] is a service based search platform newly introduce in 2008 first in the field of search industry. In [IN2] platform it is possible to load user demanded services freely based on a new concept of search 2.0.
[IN2] is a intellectual search engine that enables expansion into text mining and semantic technology to strengthen the information accessibility and convenience based on the differentiation factors on multilingual information process.
Tony Kyung-il Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux clearly says, “Some of Korean Software producers have tried hard to penetrate into Japanese market without success because the needs from the Japanese market is quite different from that of Korean users. However, [IN2] has passed the quality inspection test for Japanese users needs from various Japanese enterprises. And this will help Saltlux to effectively penetrate into not only Japanese but also other Asian markets. Base on this occasion of branch office opening, Saltlux will proactively make strategic marketing activities through local technical support and secure the sales partners in Japan.”
The Japanese search engine market size is as big as 130 billion won which is four time bigger in comparision with Korean market that is 35 billion won. When Semantic search engine utilizing text mining and semantic technologies will be added to this market, the total target market will be far bigger than this scale. Tony clearly mentioned that Saltlux will produce a visible result from the differentiated marketing activities and technical superiority of search 2.0 brand, [IN2] in Japan for 2008.

Intellectual Search Engine [IN2] from Saltlux Inc. won Digital Innovation Grand Prix by Han Kook Ilbo (Korea Times).

2008-01-15T21:46:00.000-08:00

Korea Times (www.hankooki.com), one of the major daily newspaper in Korea announced that Saltlux Inc. will be awarded the "Digital Innovation Grand Prix" given by the Korea Times at the ceremony on January 17, 2008 for the development of [IN2]DOR, the next generation intellectual search engine and launch to the market during the 2008.
Saltlux Inc., a Search 2.0 and Semantic technology specialized company, is opening a new era of the next generation intellectual search market. Saltlux has launched [IN2]DOR, a service oriented intellectual search platform to provide optimum business environment to customers based on its know-how from the long experiences.
The search platform [IN2] based on search 2.0 characterized by the improved user accessibility has adopted the text mining and semantic technologies to provide the speedy analysis and provide of mass information.
Being differentiated from the current integrated search engine, [IN2]DOR enables accurate and customized search, and the search quality may be improved continuously. [IN2]DOR has functions of automatic summarization and translation of information between multi-national languages such as Korean, Japanese and English. So that multilingual cross search function is possible, i.e., enquiries in one language may get search results of documents in other languages.
What is noteworthy is that Saltlux has successfully exported OEM version of this software product to German ontoprise GmbH, a world renowned semantic web company in 2007. Based on this circumstance Saltlux will try to attack the European market proactively. Tony Kyung-il Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. said, “[IN2]DOR will be our key product and service for our plan to achieve ten billion Won sales this year. And it will further help Saltlux to expand our total sales in the future through strengthened competitiveness and R&D capability.”

Open Widow to meet with the world – Search 2.0 [Article from ET News 2008-01-14]

2008-01-15T19:28:00.000-08:00

At the beginning of the year in 2008, Wikipedia was the one who gave surprise to the internet search world. The Wikia Inc., an enterprise with well-known online encyclopedia is the leader in web 2.0. Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikia Inc. has recently introduced a new search engine to compete with Google search.
Wikia Inc. that was co-founded by Wales has successfully developed the basis of open sources based on the web 2.0 philosophy of “participation, share and group intelligence” and succeeded in building a new search engine platform through the cooperation work of search engine oriented engineers who finally created a product like Wikipedia.
It is now starting the ‘Search 2.0' era. The next generation search engines are being developed and poured into the market to succeed the fame of Google and Naver. Already the cyber world is heated-up with the search. Search has already established in the internet market as one of the leader. The internet industry has been saturated for several years and oligopolized by a few enterprises.
In accordance with the KoreanClick, 65% of the internet search market was shared by the two companies of Naver and Daum. And top 10 internet companies share over 85%. The market is in the growth stage passing from the dissemination stage.
In the internet field where the speed of technology development is very high, it is very hard to see more innovative services these days. None of the ‘killer contents’ has been introduced after the Daum Hanmail (1997), Daum Café (1999), Cyworld (2001), Naver Knowledge iN (2002), and Naver Blog (2003). The productive internet ecosystem is being disrupted.
In this kind of market environment Search must be one of the most influential parameter among many variables. Google and Naver implanted the firm belief that one can hold supremacy in the market with only one, search technology. The environmental intra-structure became ripe. The internet environment is being changed. High speed communication network is rapidly moving from wire to wireless. Internet tools have been diversified to TV and mobile phone. Desk-top PC is fading away and web-top world is fading in. The search engine is also evolving together with this trends.
The right answer for the future search technology that will lead the market is simple. It will be depended on the accuracy of the answer to the user’s question.
The future search trend would likely be processed three ways. First of all it is the ‘individualized’ search that gives artificial intellectual type of answers based on the s individual user history.
Secondly, ‘specialization’ that could provide rich and distinct information would be the general trend. The ‘3D reality based search technology’ is being focused as the audio files draw attention among the internet contents.
Lastly, the artificial intellectual search technology will be introduced to provide more accurate answer through processing of the collected information based on semantic web technology rather than providing the immediate type of answer.
Tony Kyung-il Lee, the President and CEO of Saltlux Inc. makes diagnosis, “During the year of 2008 a new paradigm of search will be formed through the commercialization of the next generation search service that will overthrow the currently existing search engines like Naver and Google.”

[2008 Hot Issue by ET News] War on the Next Generation Search Engine in the Market

2008-01-11T22:10:00.000-08:00

[All road leads to search.] 2008 may be recorded as the year of demonstration of this truth. The Search has been the keyword that heated up the internet industry for several years. The success stories of Google and Naver created the concept of “internet=search” and the world has changed to the search centered society. The search has been absolutely powerful to obtain so much information from all the locations in the world. Without search no one can talk of the internet itself.
The trend of time would not seem to be changed in this year. The search oriented internet circulation structure would rather be stronger. It is forecasted that the internet service would continuously be changed from search to portal, from portal to media, and from media to search again in the year of 2008. The search will expand its service territory from PC based desk-top to other various terminal like mobile phone and TV being engaged with the mega-trend of “convergence”.
Especially, the mobile search service which provides search environment in the mobile phone similar to desk-top will surely heat the communication and internet industries in 2008. The mobile search service has already technically been realized even though the user environment, transfer speed and recognition are inferior. The communication and portal businesses have declared the second generation of search era and compets for the leadership in the market. The search service attracts interest being gathered in upon the new market of IPTV. 2008 would be the experimental year for the success of the new IPTV’s soft landing.
New search technologies that have been developed in the laboratories would likely be introduced to the market. The typical technology is the semantic web platform. The semantic web based search engines will be established as the universal service. A new creative search technology will brilliantly be shown up and the next generation search runner will be exposed taking over Google and Naver.
The war on the search has already been started. The several companies have made reconstruction of their organizations and have been ready to compete in the market. For recent several years Naver has been predominant. Even though Daum, Yahoo, SK and KTH have sharpened the swords, the Naver’s empire becomes stronger. The search industry was blinded under the shadow of Naver. However, the market situation may not be forecasted. Strategies to attack and protect have been established by different companies already.
Naver will focus on the depth information retrieval. Its protection strategy is to meet the customers’ needs through customized retrieval results. Expecting industry first 1,000 billion Won sales, Naver may probably be successful in the Japanese market with the alpha version of retrieval engine in Japanese that has already been developed.
Daum is preparing an offensive marketing strategy based on the profit from retrieval advertisement that is being increased since 4th quarter 2007. Daum watches for the reversal of the lead in the market with UCC marketing what they think they have got the leadership in the market even though the copyright is another issue.
Together with Konan Technology, SK Communications is planning to penetrate into the search service market after the merge with Empass. They will seek the synergism between the strategies of the mother group company, SK Telecom and Cyworld-Empass.

◆Interview with Tony (Kyoung-il) Lee of Saltlux Inc.
“An era of the next generation search is now starting. It is an old fashioned to put a simple keyword and to simply list numerous information on the monitor. Search technology is being evolved to search semantically defined information. Now, the semantic web era has been started.” Tony Lee comments.
Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux Inc. is and expert in search technology. He has been working in this business field for longer than 10 years and is also working as a director of Semantic Information Technology Association and as the Chairman of the HCI Special Committee. Tony listed the “Semantic Web” as the key topic among search technology for this year. Semantic web is the next generation intellectual web that creates a new information through reading, understanding by the computer instead of human being. The current internet can only show the information what the user input based on the HTML language while the semantic web is the intellectual web that may be communicating with human.
Tony emphasizes, “It was the enterprise side where the semantic web business stated. The government and some of the enterprises are already using the semantic web search technology. In this year semantic web will be the general trend in the industry market and a few similar services will be introduced into the consumer market.” Tony continues, “2008 will be recorded as the first year of the next generation search engine era.”
The search service market is the single dominant market by Naver with the market share of 78.3%. The second market sharer is Daum with only 12%, and Empass, Yahoo and Google together share 5%. This trend of Naver’s dominance will be continued in 2008, too.
Total internet advertisement market is continuously roseate as ever. The market is forecasted by the Internet Marketing Association to grow 20% every year for the coming 4 year period. It will share over 20% of all the advertisement market. The keyword ads geared with search will lead the demand of the ads. It is commonly agreed opinion that the search ad market size in the year 2010 will be 1,000 billion Won, being equivalent to the total internet ads in 2007.

Happy New Year of 2008 to all the readers of this Saltlux Blog

2008-01-06T17:51:00.000-08:00

All the Saltlux employees wish all the http://Saltlux.blogspot.com readers a Happy New Year of 2008.
According to the oriental philosophy the year of 2008 is the year of rat among the 12 animals symbolized for each year.
Rat is a symbol of diligence and productivity among animals, and so the fortune tellers make prediction of high productivity especially in the agriculture and in the brick industries in addition to the people who are in the productive ages.. They also predict happiness of all the people during the year because the rat is also thought as an animal with the industrious diligence which leads to wealth.

At Saltlux, We all wish all the http://saltlux.blogspot.com readers a Happy, Productive and Glorious Year during the full year of 2008, the Year of Rat.

Customer Satisfaction Award – Search Solution [IN2] from Saltlux

2007-12-25T21:23:00.000-08:00

[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

Saltlux starts exporting [IN2]DOR to European market.

2007-12-20T18:06:00.000-08:00

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."

Paper Reading Session on “Recent Technology Trends of Semantic Web and the Guide to Its Utilization.” in Web World 2007 Conference

2007-12-02T19:43:00.000-08:00

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.

Social Graph & Beyond: Tim Berners-Lee's Graph is The Next Level

2007-12-02T18:43:00.000-08:00

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.

Telefonoca I+D of Spain paid a visit to Saltlux Inc. in Seoul, Korea.

2007-11-22T18:51:00.000-08:00

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.

Saltlux Invites ISWC2007 Foreign Delegates to a Reception

2007-11-07T18:00:00.000-08:00

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 participates to NAKE2007

2007-10-28T23:24:00.000-07:00

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

Saltlux will have an Emerald Sponsorship and Poster Reporting Session in ISWC/ASWC2007

2007-10-28T23:01:00.000-07:00

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.

[Article of the month] Revolution of Search Technology, Search 2.0 by Saltlux Inc. October Issue of Monthly Magazine {Management and Computer}

2007-10-28T22:37:00.000-07:00

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.

IT Minute: New Service Finds Patches and Updates for You!

2007-09-26T20:54:00.000-07:00

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

Saltlux Inc. earned GS Certification for Search 2.0 Platform.

2007-09-13T18:41:00.000-07:00

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.”

ET Club Member Company - Saltlux Story

2007-09-10T00:57:00.000-07:00

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)

Saltlux Search 2.0 Seminar finished with a great success

2007-09-04T17:08:00.000-07:00

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.

Saltlux Hosting Search 2.0 Seminar and New Product Launch Meeting.

2007-08-12T18:14:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-09T20:32:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-09T17:38:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-09T17:18:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-08T17:23:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-07T23:48:00.000-07:00

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.”

Human to Ontology Translation

2007-07-30T17:48:00.000-07:00

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.

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access

2007-07-30T17:43:00.000-07:00

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).

Identity and the Semantic Web

2007-07-30T17:39:00.000-07:00

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 "Events" Web

2007-07-30T17:34:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-30T17:29:00.000-07:00

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.

FP7 funds LarKC Proposal of Saltlux Consortium

2007-07-26T20:27:00.000-07:00

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.

Saltlux joins to SUPER Project consortium

2007-07-26T18:41:00.000-07:00

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.

Pictures in 2007 Semantic Technology Conference

2007-05-29T22:10:00.000-07:00

Afternote of SemTech2007 will be updated very soon!!

SemTech2007 and Saltlux

2007-05-21T00:06:00.000-07:00

There is an online news article for SemTech2007 and Saltlux as follows;
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/04/prweb520867.htm

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

2007-05-13T18:41:00.000-07:00

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 partners with KartOO to provide Web 2.0 based service

2007-05-13T18:36:00.002-07:00

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!

2007-05-13T18:36:00.001-07:00

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

2007-05-13T18:35:00.001-07:00

“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.