Ontology-driven Information Integration and Analysis for
Semantic Applications in Business Intelligence and National Security
Amit Sheth,
Semagix, Inc and LSDIS Lab,
Invited Talk, Ontology
and Semantic Web Technical Exchange Meeting, MITRE,
The first generation
of ontology-driven information systems has made way in the market and is
enabling the semantic integration of heterogeneous enterprise-wide and pan Web
content. Semantic search, browsing and analysis are now a reality for useful
scales, if not on the Web scale yet.
We take the
example of LSDIS Lab’s SCORE
technology that was licensed, extended and commercialized as Semagix’s
Freedom product, and its initial applications such as anti-money laundering and
airline passenger threat assessment. Correspondingly, we remark on scalability
and automation that such semantic technology has enabled to date, and review
ongoing research in more complex semantic analysis of content for advanced
applications in areas like knowledge discovery and early warning. From a
practical perspective, we review the ability to create and maintain large
domain and task ontologies, a classifier-committee based approach to automatic
classification, automatic semantic metadata extraction and enhancement, and
main-memory based semantic query processing and analytics. From a research
perspective, we outline the shift from documents and entities to relationships
(simple and complex). More background
information. Slides: power
point show, pdf
Speaker bio
Amit Sheth is a
Professor at the University of Georgia (UGA) and CTO of Semagix, Inc. He started the LSDIS lab at UGA in 1994. For
nine years before that, he served in R&D groups at Bellcore,
Unisys, and Honeywell. In August 1999, Dr. Sheth founded Taalee, Inc.,
based on the technology developed at the LSDIS lab. While on sabbatical
from UGA, he managed Taalee as CEO until June 2001. Following Taalee's acquisition/merger, he currently serves as the CTO
and a co-founder of Semagix,
Inc. His R&D has led to three significant commercial products,
several deployed applications and over 150 publications. See: http://lsdis.cs.uga.ed/~amit and
management bios at http://www.semagix.com