Clients by Industry
Ontotext has completed a transition from a purely research organization to a supplier of commercial products and services and has amassed a dazzling array of top-class clients, spanning the globe and a number of industries.
A sampling of the diversity of our clients is shown below, with a short description of the supplied products and services. We have also included links to some of our most important business success stories. (See Collaborations for long-standing specific collaborations and Partners for information about our technology partners.)
Media, Publishing
Global media organizations have to face increasing volumes of topics and news, a distributed writer workforce, and ever-shortening publication deadlines. Instead of writing monolithic articles about one main topic, it is more efficient to create small journalistic assets (eg one photo or paragraph) and dispatch them automatically to all relevant topics. As a result, Semantic Media Publishing has emerged as an innovative IT area.
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Probably the highest profile application of semantic technology to date, BBC’s 2010 World Cup web site is delivered using the OWLIM Enterprise semantic repository. A famous "call to action" by John O'Donovan (Chief Technical Architect, BBC) has spurred a flurry of semantic technology activity in world-known media companies, particularly in the UK and US.
See more details in the BBC: Dynamic Semantic Publishing success story |
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Press Association (PA) is currently taking a technology leap forward to enrich the gigantic amounts of assets it offers to media businesses, and open new product lines on this basis. All images, videos, and stories produced by Press Association are going to feature automatically extracted concept mentions, linking the assets to existing data sets. PA is also looking at generating and serving linked data to its customers with profiles of entities and events, along with the assets featuring them. |
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NetInfo is the leading Bulgarian internet media holding, reaching 80% of all BG internet users. AdWise is a targeted advertisement management platform. Ontotext has developed for AdWise a component to evaluate the relevance of an advertisement to a piece of content (e-mail or web-page), so the platform can show only ads that fit the user's context. This uses content similarity metrics, taking into account specifics of the language, various possible word forms, and the varying significance of words |
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One of the largest US media companies is currently engaged with Ontotext in a Proof Of Concept (POC) pilot involving application of semantic technologies to the political domain |  |
Life Sciences: Pharmaceutical, Gene Research, Health
Medical research, pharmaceutical and other life sciences organizations have to deal with huge and ever increasing volumes of information that range from structured (distributed departmental databases) to semi-structured (excel tables without a common unifying format) to unstructured (free-text documents) and span both corporate servers and the global medical community. The improved discovery and enriched searchability of data relevant to a particular clinical study or other medical research endeavor has direct financial benefits, by reducing the amount of specific research that is required.
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AstraZeneca is a top-5 global pharmaceutical company. Ontotext has executed a number of successful projects for AZ, such as:
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A growing consultancy and solutions oriented business where Ontotext provides automatic information extraction of meta-data from clinical documents and semantic tagging; advanced semantic search and medical documents linking. | |
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South London and Maudsley is the largest provider of secondary mental healthcare in Europe. Ontotext introduces new text analysis functionality in the Biomedical Research Center (BRC) Case Register Interactive Search (CRIS), which is primary used to generate in-depth secondary analysis by investigating a combination of patient summary meta-data. See more details in the SLAM: Electronic Patient Records success story. | |
Defense, Security, Financial Intelligence
Defense and Homeland security have been early adopters of innovative technologies related to inference and artificial intelligence. Semantic technologies offer the best way to integrate data from numerous disparate sources (both public and intelligence-related) and facts obtained through text mining.
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Ontotext created the Asset Recovery Intelligence System (ARIS) Platform prototype for the International Center for Asset Recovery (ICAR) of Basel Institute on Governance. ARIS helps financial investigators, analysts and Financial Intelligence Units in developing countries with the tracking of assets stolen by departing dictators (kleptocrats). See more details in the Basel: Uncovering Financial Crime success story |  |
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Ontotext developed a Text Analysis and semantic annotation platform for a leading US research institute working with the Department of Defense | |
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One of the top-5 defense contractors in the US uses OWLIM for semantic technology projects related to defense | |
Telecoms, Interactive Television
Telecommunication and television deal with huge amounts of data and offer rich areas of application of semantic technologies, eg for mining of client and billing data, making recommendations, etc
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“KT provides semantic VOD search service for IPTV and various smart mobile devices using OWLIM as semantic repository. We found that BigOWLIM is suitable for our service, as it has shown good performance for its price compared with other products in the actual simulation tests. Best of all, OWLIM could be easily tested, installed and used thanks to open library, detailed guidelines, and lots of samples etc. By and large, our experience is that the OWLIM is very powerful and reliable high-performance semantic repository. ” – Joo Won Sung, Senior Researcher, Central R&D Laboratory, KT. See the KT: Interactive TV success story for details. |
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Nexcom is Bulgaria's first VoIP telecom. After successful collaboration on the SUPER EU project, Nexcom contracted Ontotext consulting services for semantic technologies research related to VoIP delivery. | |
Archives, Libraries, Cultural Heritage
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The UK Government contracted Ontotext to implement a Semantic Knowledge Base for the Government Web Archive. The project brings together publicly available linked data and open-source text mining technology for semantic indexing and search of over 150M documents. See The National Archives: Semantic Knowledge Base success story. | |
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An Ontotext-led consortium won The British Museum tender for development of the ResearchSpace project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that aims to support collaborative web-based research, information sharing and web publishing for the cultural heritage scholarly community.
The system will be based on the CIDOC CRM ontology, which supports very generic description of cultural artifacts, related events (e.g. creation, acquisition, curation, conservation), annotations, research discourse. See more |
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Sofia University is the oldest Bulgarian university and hosts the recently established BG-KR IT Cooperation Center (ITCC). |
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FP7 CHARISMA (Cultural Heritage Advanced Research Infrastructures: Synergy for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Conservation/Restoration) is an EU-funded Integrated Project carried out in the FP7 Capacities specific programme "Research Infrastructures". The project provides transnational access to most advanced scientific instrumentation and knowledge; allowing scientists, conservators-restorers and curators to enhance their research. CHARISMA uses OWLIM to power a portal that provides metadata from 6 major European cultural institutions: Centre de Recherche et des Restauration, Louvre (FR), The National Gallery London, The British Museum, Opificio delle Pietre Dure (IT), ICN Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Museo Nacional del Prado (ES) |  |
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LODAC (Linked Open Data in Academia) is created by Japan's National Institute of Informatics and aggregates various information across multiple Japanese resources as LOD. Many Japanese museums have digitized their museum collections. This data is scraped by LODAC and mapped to RDF in CIDOC CRM. Associated artists and artworks from different museum collections are associated and integrated data views are provided. The result is LODAC-Museum, including web presentation, natural language search and SPARQL endpoint. See more |
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The Polish Digital National Museum aggregates artifacts from cultural institutions in the Digital Libraries Federation PIONIER Network: over 70 contributing institutions including universities, libraries, museums, archives, research. The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center transforms all provided data to RDF using common ontologies such as CIDOC CRM, and relevant vocabularies related to Europeana. The aggregated collection contains 681 thousand objects and is published with specially developed software (dMuseion). OWLIM is used as the RDF repository for this project. |  |
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The Gothenburg City Museum provided close to 9K museum objects from two collections to build a use case within the MOLTO FP7 project for a knowledge representation infrastructure that allows querying RDF and presenting RDF results in natural language. The knowledge representation infrastructure is based on Ontotext's approach "reason-able views of the web of data". Museum data is modeled according to CIDOC CRM, integrated with the DBpedia and GeoNames datasets, and upper-level ontologies such as PROTON that facilitate the integration. The museum reason-able view contains 305M triples, and is accessible via a SPARQL endpoint here. |  |
Domain-specific Semantics and Search
The Ontotext workshop "360° Semantic Technologies: Web Mining, Text Analysis, Linked Data Search and Reasoning" at SemTech2010 (see news item) explains how the application of these semantic technologies related disciplines allows the efficient creation of domain-specific semantic applications.
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RonsMap is an innovative provider of car offer information in the US.
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Innovantage is an Ontotext joint venture that has become the major supplier of job vacancy information on the UK market. Innovantage includes unprecedented breadth of information in its job feeds. Semantic processing affords intelligent search by geographic area, job taxonomy, salary range, etc. See more details in the Innovantage: Recruitment Intelligence success story |
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Ontotext is developing a semantic knowledge base of foods, recipes, nutrients, cooking etc. Recipes are crawled from numerous sites; processed to extract knowledge about ingredients, cooking times, nutrition information; and presented through various dynamic and intelligent interfaces that allow sorting and filtering by a number of preferences. See more details in the EDAMAM Food Knowledge Base success story | |
Government Institutions
Many governments are starting to adopt semantic web technologies for Open Government Data publishing, as an important enabler to fulfill their openness and transparency mandates.
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The Canadian Government Department - Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) seeks to enhance the responsible development and use of Canada’s natural resources and the competitiveness of Canada’s natural resources products. Through the use of OWLIM NRCan are planning to move their RDBMS static file based mediation database, which allows querying heterogeneous databases (schematic and semantic), to a RDF store that provides reasoning. Speed is the main element to consider in the project, due to the fact that the translation involves a significant amount of vocabulary conversion. |  |
Academic Institutions
Ontotext has long-standing collaborations in the semantic technologies area with leading European universities, such as Sheffield University (GATE group). Below are listed some other academic clients:
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Ontotext provided product licenses and training services to Notthingham Trent to kick-off their semantic technologies projects | |
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The Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is one of Korea's top universities dedicated to science and engineering. POSTECH uses OWLIM for semantic technology research and industrial projects | |
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National Institute of Informatics is Japan's general academic research institution seeking to create future value in informatics. NII seeks to advance integrated research and development activities in information-related fields, including networking, software, and content. NII uses OWLIM for research related to semantic technologies |  |
Innovation, Consulting
Various consulting and innovation companies have started using semantic technologies in their endeavors.
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Innovaro provides clients a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to navigate the complexities of the entire innovation ecosystem. It has selected semantic technologies as a prominent area of innovation and licenses OWLIM for semantic-related projects |
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Knowledge Integration specializes in the development of high quality open source products and components based around open standards and specifications. It has selected OWLIM as the RDF database of choice for its endeavors | |
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Volz Innovation supports organizations in process and product innovation with new technologies. Volz has created new products and technologies for the Web, mobile navigation, enterprise software and cloud computing. Volz uses OWLIM for its semantic technology projects |  |
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