PoolParty

PoolParty Thesaurus Management & Semantic Search

Mag. Andreas Blumauer

PoolParty in a nutshell

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1. A very fast, easy-to-use, browser-basedtool to generate and maintain thesauriand semantic networks

2. A platform to implement semantic search engines

3. A tool to introduce expert-matching, concept tagging and bookmarking intoyour enterprise 2.0 stack

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The challenge

1. Document Management Systems orEnterprise Wikis offer only very simple possibilities to annotate content

2. Thus, only full-text search can be realised – no semantic search!

3. On top of thesaurus-based text-analysisdocuments and content can be enrichedby concepts and their semantic relations automatically

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PoolParty technology – short overview

• PoolParty supports management & maintenance of multilingual (corporate) thesauri & taxonomies. PoolParty builds upon W3C Semantic Web Standards like SKOS, RDF, OWL & SPARQL

• PoolParty supports a very comfortable way to edit thesauri and ontologies based on a web-based AJAX user interface

• PoolParty Server is based on graph-databases („RDF Triple Stores“), incl. reasoning, a (Lucene) index engine and an automatic text-extraction component

• PoolParty Server can be integrated via Java-API & Web Interfaces: REST, HTTP (pseudo-REST) & SOAP

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PoolParty = cost efficient thesaurus management

• Powerful import functionalities

• Easy-to-use editor

• Automatic text extraction

• Linked Data connector: additional facts from the Semantic Web

• Tag recommender

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Use Case: Similarity Search

Expert #4532

Senior Product Manager - Enterprise Wiki at Mitchell Lake

Consulting in Sydney Area

………

Project #AZ67

Integration of Confluence which is a web-based

corporate wiki. It is developed and

marketed by Atlassian, Australia.

…..

same topic

near location

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Similarity Search & Semantic Search

• PoolParty Server stores semantic profiles per document (wiki page) and per user ( semantic index)

• „Similarities“ between documents or persons can be calculated by use of the semantic index

• „Similarity“ is fully adjustable: Each property of a document or a person can be weighted individually („boosting“)

• Thesauri can serve as a search assistants („faceted search & „moderated search“) – examples on the internet: www.emteba.at, www.ecoi.net

Moderated Search & faceted search - screenshots

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Navigating thesauri & editing thesauri

PoolParty: Some application scenarios

• Semantic search engines

• Semantic wikis

• Intelligent advisory systems & recommender systems

• Corporate bookmarking

• Metadata-, annotation- & tag recommender systems

• Auto-complete and faceted browsing

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Choose your own skin!

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New ways to browse thesauri

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Linked Data Support

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Text-Mining & Tag Recommendation with PoolParty

Semantic Wiki

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Summary

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1. With PoolParty knowledge management systemsare built upon an „intelligent“ layer

2. PoolParty helps to link data from the(semantic) web with enterprise data

3. PoolParty can be integrated withexisting systems like CMS, DMS, Wikis orsearch engines

4. Link existing data sources the semantic way to move yourenterprise information management, business intelligenceor market intelligence on the next level!

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Demo

Last update: February 2010

• Demo Login for PoolParty 2.5:http://poolparty.punkt.at/PoolParty

• Examples for PoolParty Wiki-Frontends:

– http://bit.ly/8hLseM

– http://bit.ly/89H0An

Contact Details

punkt. netServices GmbHLerchenfelder Guertel 43A—1160 Wien / Austriahttp://www.punkt.at/ http://www.enterprise-20.at/

Mag. Andreas BlumauerManaging Directorblumauer@punkt.at+43-1-8974122-27

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