I just registered for the Semantic Web Day in Leipzig on April 29. This event is about sharing experiences and knowledge in the field of the semantic web and finally to build visions on future applications. If you look at the event’s programme you will recognize most of the known companies like Transinsight (with a speech on semantic search by Michael Schroeder), empolis (about enterprise knowledge management by Mario Lenz and Ralph Traphoener) and Netresearch (semantic content management by Thomas Fleck).

There will be also presentations about DBPedia, Triplify and Ontowiki from the AKSW (Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web) research group.

Breakfast Links 30.09.2008

* Article about enterprise search marketing from Stephen Arnold on his experiences on a lately visited trade show.

* Interesting article about the future on search by Susan Feldman

Breakfast Links 05.09.2008

A Solr 1.3 Release Candidate is available! Grant Ingersoll: “Note, this is NOT an official release, but is pretty close”.
http://people.apache.org/~gsingers/solr/1.3-RC2/

Autonomy: Not Idle
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/09/05/autonomy-not-idle/ (Beyond Search)

Linguistic Agents released a Press Release about RoboCrunch you can read here. Beside a really short introduction to RoboCrunch, the most interesting part about the Press Release was the following sentence:

“Just try typing “I’m looking for more information about France” in RoboCrunch and in any one of other Search Engines”, says Sasson Margaliot, Founder and CEO of Linguistic Agents, “in any search engine – semantic or regular, old or new”.

I really appreciated this “task”, because with this hint they made it really interesting to check out the search results from RoboCrunch and Google, Yahoo, MSN and co. (+1)

Following the task to compare search engines with RoboCrunch I immediatley went to www.robocrunch.com, but instead of new ways on how to present a search interface I saw an experimental really plain search interface. (-1)

RoboCrunch, really plain search interface

After typing the human written search query “I’m looking for more information about France” I got a nice search result full of travel and general information on France. Absolutely what I expected. (+1)

Nice search result, again really plain visualization

Put the same question into Google and … what do you think what I got? As I expected, a lot of sites containing the phrase “I’m looking for more information”, and the term “france”. Not even one information about France! (-1 for google, +1 for RoboCrunch)

Search result on Google, not even one relevant hit

Nice demonstration! But if you think about it, do you think this example is really comparable? In my opinion, no! Google is based and specialized on term queries, RoboCrunch tries to adress the processing of phrase queries. If you’re speaking in the right Google language you will get a proper result, try it.

I’m going to check some more queries out later and present the result to you tommorrow!

Breakfast Links 21.08.2008

New semantic search engine RoboCrunch rolled out by Linguistic Agents
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-rss/robocrunchcom-new-semantic-search-unveiled-61433.php

Breakfast Links 19.08.2008

Jitterbit, Connection applications, data and systems
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/18/jitterbit-the-open-source-project-that-bridges-data-gaps/

Hadoop Meet up in Berlin
http://blog.suma-ev.de/node/79

OASIS UIMA Standard Draft out for Public Review
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200808/msg00003.html

Transinsight: Bio-Science Search
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/08/17/transinsight-bio-science-search/

Breakfast Links 12.08.2008

Google Street View catches House on Fire
http://valleywag.com/5035540/google-street-view-catches-house-on-fire

Search Fundamentals: Cost
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/08/10/search-fundamentals-cost/

Initial version of the Java Gems project
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50308

Web2.0 Startup: AirBed & Breakfast
http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/