The Semantic Technology Business: Europe
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- 1. Michael WitbrockCycorp Europewitbrock@cycorp.eu Michael
Witbrock Cycorp, witbrock@cycorp.eu July 26nd 2010
- 2. 23 Languages27 Legal Systems27 CountriesNot integrated:
IntegratingMore in the future
- 3. Recent resurgence of scientific, technicaland commercial
interest in ArtificialIntelligence generallyIntersection of the web
and Knowledgerepresentation (Semantic Web)Semantic Technology:
integrate shallowsemantics ubiquitously to increasesoftware
flexibility and decrease cost
- 4. EC ICT FP6http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/kct/fp6_projects.htm
(2002-2006)
- 5. EC ICT FP7 9.1 billion
totalhttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/content-knowledge/projects_en.html
(Current)
- 6. Enormous amount of Are companiesresearch on semantic
Appearing? technology
- 7. Data Integration Inference Storage
- 8. EU: Enabling Corporate Web Sites Corporate Services
(Business Facing) Platforms (Triple Stores, SOAs, Rule Platforms)
Public Goods (like Roads, Power Grids, Farms) Little or
no-M&AUS: Consumer Facing Flashy Web Sites Individual Users
(Public-facing) Applications (Search, Assistant, News) Private
Goods (like Cars, Cellphones, Meals) Venture Backed, increasing
M&A Source: LarKC Project Deliverable 9.3
- 9. Increasing use of shallow semantics RDFa in Yahoo and
Google, Facebook social graph, NYT, BestBuy product catalogues Easy
to use vocabulary:Deeper Semantics in Future Beyond RDF: OWL,
RuleML, CycML URIs with complex content By Computers for
ComputersBut, maybe only beginning
- 10. Source: Provisional estimate of product market potential.
OVUM. Datamonitor Source: Provisional estimate of product market
potential. OVUM. DatamonitorEU Value IT Project
http://blog.value-it.isoco.net/
- 11. Companies Deploying Intelligent Technology Of those,
Companies Planning Semantic TechnologyEU Value IT Project Surveys
http://blog.value-it.isoco.net/
- 12. Platform for Web-Scale Semantic Computing Relevant Sources
Identify Relevant Content Relevant Context Can work in industry for
scaling and deploying Relevant Problems Relevant Methods
intelligent applications Select Relevant Data Extract Information
Calculate Statistics Main role may be enablingTransform Transform
to Logic startups to develop Rule-based semantic mash-ups on Reason
Classification Inconsistent reasoning cloud infrastructure Platform
support Enough answers? Enough certainty? Plug-in architecture
Decide Enough effort/cost?
- 13. Large amount of research doneBeginning to result in
industrial uptakeOpportunities in both consumer-facingand business
operationsLarger context Semantic/AI technologies potential power
is enormous Could become mega-industry driving ICT (following
hardware, software, web, mobile)
- 14. Asia and Semantic/AI TechJapan and robotics?Korea and
broadband/mobile?China and web-intelligence?India and
human-machinecollaboration?South-east Asia?Rest of the
world:Central and South AmericaRussia, Near &Middle EastCanada
and MexicoAustralasiaAfrica