DESCRIPTION:
Internet allows to find a considerable amount of information about any topic, but the way this information is normally returned, i.e. a list of possibly many documents, makes it difficult to find what is actually needed. The semantic web promises to distinguish the semantic contents of documents from their presentation, allowing for the building of programs that manipulate these contents in order to find the actual needed information, and not just a set of documents. In order for the semantic web to become a reality, however, there are many obstacles. Among them, there is the fact that there are lots of information out there, which are expressed in many different formats (current non-semantic web pages, databases, unstructured documents, e-mails…), and which will be hardly converted in order to become usable by a semantic engine. The project goal is to create a system which allows to ask a question (formerly called “query”) in several different ways, including the natural language, using several different client systems, including mobile computing stations, and finds the answer to the question where the information is actually stored, regardless if this is in the semantic web, in the non-semantic web, in a database, or in an unstructured document. The project objectives are the following: - the definition of a suitable language to represent question and answers - user interface independence; this means that many user interfaces, including natural language, can be used to ask a question to the same system - location independence; this means question can be asked from virtually everywhere, including mobile devices, and phones - independence from the location where the information is actually stored, supporting, beside the semantic web, “legacy” information stores such as relational databases, formatted documents, and e-mails The project also aims at applying the project results to some specific application domains, in order to verify its practical usability. The domains which have been identified are temporary work and homeopathy.
-First phase of the project:
definition of languages and interfaces, definition of the overall system architecture
-Second phase:
analysis, design and documentation of the several distinct modules that are part of the system
-Third phase:
integration of the several modules, and alpha testing
-Fourth phase:
actual application of the integrated system to the identified application domains.
Development stage : Idea
European funding source(s) :
FP6 - Integrating European Research,
Information Society technologies
Type of Project:
FP6 RTD project, FP6 Cooperative research project
Keywords : Information Processing, Information System (001002), Artificial Intelligence (AI) (001002003), Computer Hardware (001002004)
Organisation type : Company
Organisation size : <50
Other details : The company is a software producer, mainly involved in business information systems. The main product is an information system for Temporary Work companies, which is currently in use in many such companies in Italy.
Target partner organisation type(s) :
SME (<250 employees),
University, Research/Technol
Target partner expertise sought :
Natural Language Processing, Mobile Computing, Information Retrieval
Application domains : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, Information processing, information systems
Contact : Giuseppa Burgio
Email : alps@to.camcom.it
Telephone : +39 011 5716321
Fax : +39 011 5716324
WWW : www.to.camcom.it
Partner Request Entered by:
Organisation: Camera di Commercio di Torino
City:
Organisation Country: Italy
Organisation Telephone: +39 011 5716322
Organisation Fax: +39 011 5716324
Organisation Email: alps@to.camcom.it
Organisation Web: www.to.camcom.it
Entry date : 13/01/2003
Update date :
Deadline for responses: 31/3/2003
