Ontotext Lab. (Sirma Group Corp.)
Partner Contributions
- Design of a cross-media ontology for representation of media presence and campaigns, extensible towards different domains and markets. (leader)
- Development and integration of a Semantic Media Store
- Campaign identification algorithms.
Ontotext (http://www.ontotext.com) is a semantic technology lab of Sirma Group. Ontotext is focused on research and core technology development for knowledge discovery, management, and engineering, targeted to applications in Semantic Web and Web Services. Ontotext carries out research in: NLP (incl. information extraction and retrieval, lexical semantics), upper level ontologies, ontology middleware and repositories, evolution, reasoning, semantic web services.
At present Ontotext has 15 permanent employees and a number of research affiliates. It takes part in several European research projects within FP5 (On-To-Knowledge, SWWS, Vision, OntoWeb) and FP6 (DIP, SEKT, Prestospace, Infrawebs); its researchers have more than 30 publications in refereed journals and international events.
Ontotext is a leading Semantic Web technology provider, being:
- the developer of KIM - a semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval platform;
- the lead developer of wsmo4j semantic web services API and reference implementation;
- the lead developer of WSMO Studio integrated service environment;
- the developer of OWLIM - a high-performance OWL repository, based on Sesame;
- a co-developer of Sesame one of the most popular semantic repositories;
- a co-developer of the GATE language engineering platform;
After all, Ontotext is basically a division for professional software development, focused on a number of interconnected areas involving formal semantics. As a part of Sirma, it has access to broad IT experience, human resources and infrastructure. Read more about our Mission, Skills, and Focus.