Posts Tagged ‘ontologies’

Bueda increases the value of rich media and user-generated content via its innovative semantic analysis engine. Leveraging research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute, Bueda combines user-generated tags, existing ontologies, and semantic analysis in order to provide publishers with actionable information that can be used for content categorization, targeted advertising, content recommendation and search engine optimization. Via Bueda’s API, any UGC website can have access to the latest technology for tag disambiguation and cleanup with minimal integration hurdles.

Tags are increasingly used to organize user generated content. They give the users the freedom to tag their content with the words that make sense to them making it easier to find their own content. Unfortunately, different words are used for the same things and it is very common to find tags that are missing spaces, have typos, and are redundant or not informative. A publisher with tags of this sort is unable to connect content properly or target advertising effectively. Tags enriched by Bueda can provide not only a better overall user experience but can increase revenue generated from user content.

The Bueda API can transform noisy and redundant tags into back clean, normalized tags, with a breakdown of the semantic concepts represented in the tags. This means that your users still have the freedom of tags, and you still get the benefits of neatly categorized and curated content.

The result is happier users, a better user experience and more revenue.

The Bueda API is currently in private beta.

You can find all the info and even a demo at the Bueda website:  http://www.bueda.com

As part of the OntologySummit2010 series of activities, three online questionnaires have been developed and launched to help collect community/expert opinion and insight on the subject matter. Ontology summit conveners and invited experts are invited to provide their input through these online survey forms on/before the deadline of Monday 22-Feb-2010 (end-of-day US Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5:00).

The three questionnaires are designed to:

1. Conduct a survey on present ontology education/training content and quality.
2. Conduct a survey to elicit information about the knowledge and skills ontologists need, or are expected to have, in a variety of working contexts.
3. Conduct a real-time delphi study to elicit expert opinion and shared vision on the future of ontologists, their education and the field of ontology. [*to access this questionnaire for the first time, you will have to register yourself first ... and then, when prompted, enter the study code: "ontology"]

You can find all the information about the surveys here.

Supun Dewaraja, an undergraduate  student of the University of Westminster, is currently researching on building a scalable approach to collaborative ontology alignment. The aim of this project is to use a crowd sourcing approach to ontology alignment. Considerations will also be made as to how to motivate the public to take part in ontology alignment. Furthermore the scalability (number of people, number of concepts) of the solution to the Internet as a whole rather than a specific expert group of knowledge engineers is also investigated.

The questionnaire contained in the link below is a short survey to gather the requirements for this approach.

http://ecustomersurvey.com/dsm/ViewSurvey.do?id=d23138e6-ac89-4e6c-9f43-bc91c11ab433

I guess we have something to say filling this survey and as a way to help Supun

This week the 4th FOMI (Formal Ontologies Meet Industry) workshop has been organized in conjunction with the European Conference of Knowledge Management 2009 in Vicenza (Italy).

The workshop is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss application issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies.