2010 SemanticTechnology Conference

San Francisco, CA

Presented by Robert Baban and Cristian Barbus

The usual suspects

• Ontotext – OWLIM - semantic database

• Oracle – Oracle11g - semantic database

• Franz Inc – Allegro Graph• Top Quadrant – TopBraid Suite• OpenCalais.com – Thomson Reuters

– entity extraction ( people, facts, events)

• Cambridge Semantics – put Excel on steroids

• Protégé – ontology editor – Web Protégé

• Zepheira – linked data

SemTech – Search

• YoLink (www.yolink.com)– Find tool : searches web sites, online documents, etc– API, browser plugin

• True Knowledge ( www.trueknowledge.com )– Answering world’s question

SemTech 2010 – Text Mining

• ai-one – ( www.ai-one.com ) – semantic neural network – HNN – Unsupervised ( no training, no predefined structure )– Small number of inputs– Incremental learning

• Expert System – www.expertsystem.net– Focus – NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques

• iQser – www.iqser.com– GIN Platform – semantic middleware

SemTech 2010 - SPARQL• SPARQL 1.1 new features:

– aggregates, subqueries, property paths– negation– update language

• Intellidimesion (www.intellidimension.com)– Semantic Solution for Microsoft.NET

• Clark & Parsia (http://clarkparsia.com)– Pellet – reasoner, incremental inference– Pleorus – facet navigation tool for SPARQL– Empire – JPA implementation for RDF and Semantic Web

SemTech 2010 - Rules

• RIF (Rule Interchange Format )– http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-core

• SILK (Semantic Inferencing on Large Knowledge)– http://silk.semwebcentral.org– Semantic Web Rules with Defaults, Higher-Order, and Scalability

Sentiment analysis- www.OpinionCrawl.com

Knowledge provenance – Deborah McGuniess– Proof markup Language (PML) - provenance, justification and trust

Thank you !