The Semantic Technology Business: Europe

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  • 1. Michael WitbrockCycorp [email protected] Michael Witbrock Cycorp, [email protected] 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