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, Semantic Web and Web Services.
Ontotext is the developer of several outstanding products and major contributor to open-source platforms. The lab is a proven, competent and cost-effective, partner in:
Our technology delivers real-world applications in Web Services and Enterprise Application Integration, Knowledge Management and Textmining, Business Intelligence, Media Research, and Life sciences.
Ontotext carries out research in: NLP (incl. information extraction and retrieval, lexical semantics), upper level ontologies, ontology middleware and repositories, knowledge representation and reasoning, semantic web services and business process management (BPM). It is taking part in research projects with total budget of more than 100 million EURO. The projects that have been concluded - On-To-Knowledge, SWWS, OntoWeb, VISION, SEKT, DIP, and INFRAWEBS - have had great impact over the present state of the Semantic Web. Currently running projects are PrestoSpace, SUPER, TAO, TripCom, MediaCampaign, RASCALLI, SemanticGov and IST World.
At present Ontotext has 25 permanent employees and a number of research affiliates. Its researchers have more than 30 publications in refereed journals and international events.
Ontotext is a leading developer of Core Semantic Technology, being:
After all, Ontotext is 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.
SIRMA, established in 1992, is a group of diverse, privately-owned software businesses with offices in Sofia, Montreal, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, Kazanlak and Plovdiv. It includes more than 10 companies and business units. Sirma has history of success in various domains and markets all over the globe. Its software is implemented in the following domains: AI, b2b, CAD/CAM, e-government, CSCW, CASE tools, banking, C3/C4 Systems, VOIP billing, etc.
Sirma Group Corp. is one of the oldest and biggest software houses in Bulgaria. It is the top-3 software house in Bulgaria with more than 150 employees.
The essential, inherent principles of Sirma are professionalism, innovation, and good work atmosphere. Most of its key employees are shareholders and most of its shareholders work in the group. While the others only care for business in principle, what we do also care about are people and technology. This makes a big difference - you can ask our partners and customers about it.
A lot of our employees are constantly involved in scientific research projects of various sorts. Sirma Group cooperates with all the major universities in Sofia, providing lecturers and assistants, granting scholarships, and taking students for internships. We also have a track record of a number of distinct expert systems, implemented around the world. Sirma Group took the European IST Prize in 1999 with its innovative variational and parametric CAD technology (see EngView Systems for more info). Sirma Group is also ISO 9001:2000 certified.
We have been tuning our HR policy and management practices for more than ten years so as to achieve good work environment. We started as a few top software engineers and workaholics, all of us enthusiastic about AI. And we kept growing organically, taking more and more of the same people to work and partner with us.
As a result, we have extremely low retention and we enjoy an excellent reputation in the developers' community. The consequences are immediate and straightforward: efficient experience gathering and management; capable of attracting the best developers and researchers easily; stable and predictable teams with experienced technical leads, whose experience and management skills minimize the potential risk of unwelcome surprises - most of them got proven working for Sirma for 5-10 years, having grown with us from smart programmers into calm project managers.