Research Projects

Ontotext takes part in research projects with a total current budget of more than 100 million EURO. Ontotext is the most successful Bulgarian participant in EU research projects in FP5, FP6, FP7 and was distinguished with the prestigious Pitagoras award. Ontotext has participated in 30 EU projects since 2002, and a number of related initiatives:

Ontotext currently participates in the following EU research projects:

• MOLTO - Multilingual Online Translation - developing tools for translating texts between multiple languages in real time with high quality
• CUBIST - Combining and Uniting Business Intelligence and Semantic Technologies - combines essential features of Semantic Technologies and Business Intelligence
• Khresmoi - Knowledge Helper for Medical and Other Information users - to build a multi-lingual multi-modal search and access system for biomedical information and documents
• RENDER - Reflecting Knowledge Diversity - developing methods, techniques, software and data sets that will leverage diversity as a crucial source of innovation and creativity
• TrendMiner - Large-scale, Cross-lingual Trend Mining and Summarisation of Real-time Media Streams, with application to financial decision support and political analysis and monitoring
• EUCLID - Educational Curriculum for the usage of Linked Data - facilitates professional training for data practitioners aiming to use Linked Data in their daily work, through a curriculum implemented as a combination of living learning materials and activities
• AnnoMarket - Cloud-Based Text Annotation Marketplace - aims to revolutionise the text annotation market, by delivering an affordable, open marketplace for pay-as-you-go, cloud-based extraction resources and services, in multiple languages
• LDBC - Linked Data Benchmark Council - aims to establish a global, vendor-neutral, non-profit organisation for publishing and auditing benchmark results for graph and RDF databases
• Europeana Creative - re-use of cultural heritage metadata and content by the creative industries

Ontotext has completed a number of projects that have a great impact on the present state of the Semantic Web, including: On-To-Knowledge, SWWS, OntoWeb, VISION, DIP, SEKT, INFRAWEBS, PrestoSpace, MediaCampaign, RASCALLI, SemanticGov, SUPER, TAO, TripCom, SOA4ALL, LarKC, INSEMTIVES, NoTube.