DFKI Innovation Fair "Semantic Technologies" 2009

Time and place

9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Schedule

08:00- 09:00    Registration
09:00- 09:30    Greeting by Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel
09:30- 10:30    Short introduction of the exhibits
10:30-15:00     Demonstrations
12:30- 14:00    Lunch buffett at the Sky Lounge
15:00- 16:00    Meet the Expert - one-to-one talks
16:00- 16:30    Conclusion by Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel
16:30- 17:30    Finale

Organizational information

Team Corporate Communications
DFKI GmbH
Trippstadter Straße 122
67663 Kaiserslautern
Phone.: +49 (0)631 20575 321
 
 
Please register until October 21, 2009 at:
innovationsmesse@dfki.de

An overview of the presentations

Nepomuk - The semantic desktop

Use your computer like it was a personal semantic network! Link e-mails, files, address book entries, photos, or appointments stored at different locations in your personal computer. The transfer of semantic web technologies onto your computer enables uniform data display regardless of the original software used to create them.

Contask- Adaptive assistance for the knowledge worker

Various aspects of information relevant to the user such as known solutions, possible know-how data bases, or other sources of interest are proactively offered in the context of the actual task. The knowledge created by the individual user while working on the problem is preserved and offered, in turn, as an experience transfer to the problem solving work of other users.

Touch&Write - Penabled interactive semantic touchtable

Touch&Write, the digital rear projection table, recognizes several pen and finger gestures as well as handwritten inputs and simultaneously evaluates them. Touch&Write combines camera-based multi-touch capabilities with the high-resolution technology of digital pens. The recently developed table surface enables the exact positioning of a digital pen as well as the recording of every movement. For example, notes taken at a meeting undergo immediate digital processing and are then provided as semantic information.

MEDICO - Semantic annotation and search for medical images

The THESEUS MEDICO project examines and develops methods and mechanisms to enrich medical imaging materials (computer tomographics, x-ray images, ultrasound images) with semantic data, so as to enable interpretation by the computer. This facilitates accurate searches in this sensitive area.

Kaukolu - Semantic wikis as corporate knowledge base

Kaukolu extends traditional wikis to the semantic level. The process demands the use of various manual and automated methods of generating the metadata. The content of the wiki becomes something a computer can interpret using the underlying ontologies. The identification of events, projects, and colleagues produces a significant improvement in content-specific search and navigation tasks.

myCBR - Case-based reasoning for content based searches

Case-based reasoning (CBR) simulates experienced-based problem solving. It is especially practical in the support of the staff at call centers or IT-help desks, and for product search in e-Commerce applications. In order to compare client requirements with product descriptions, similarity measures are used. myCBR is a graphic tool for the simple design of such similarity measures and serves as a basis for the development of knowledge and content-based search applications.

iDocument – Intelligent information extraction from documents

A knowledge assistant, iDocument interprets documents within a data domain and automatically recognizes known persons, projects, events, locations, etc. The content of relevant files is transferred using information extraction methods and linked with the background knowledge to the semantic network. A complementary semantic search allows the exploration of the network and supplies the user with the resulting relationships and concepts.

ESB - Electronic troubleshooter

ESB employs semantic technologies and optimizes knowledge management to support the maintenance of complex equipment. The systematic and formal recording of faults and the response measures taken combine with a detailed machine model to form the basis for a rapid access to situation-specific information. Success stories where this solution has already been employed can be found in underground coal mining and in the design, construction, and servicing of special machinery.

TechWatch - Innovation monitoring

This monitoring system is based on patented and published information and, in principal, is intended for use in all fields of technology. Users enter keywords and receive the following search results: relevant persons, organizations and companies, patents and publications. The relationships between these search results are illustrated graphically.

Semantic technologies in machine translation

The technical aspects of machine translation as seen in the EuroMatrix and EuroMatrix Plus projects aim at improving the translation quality through lexical-semantic models of the application domains. A detailed semantic classification of the domains indicates the need for specific lexicons in order to significantly improve the terminology selection process for use in the translation.

Office robots

The Talking Robots group is working on an integrated methodology that enables the robot to process spoken language and relate subjective understanding to the surroundings. In this way, the robot is capable of optimal cooperation with humans.

TAKE - Semantic fulltext search in PDF documents

TAKE is a browser-based application that supports the user in the semantic search in the content of text files. In an offline process, the texts (PDF or Office formats) are analyzed record by record in terms of morphology, syntax, and semantics. In this way, they can then be searched in a simplified form (subject, verb, and other sentence objects).

SENA - Semantic navigation of document repositories

SENA is an interactive computer search tool based on automatically generated semantic file annotations. The system supports topic related searches by directing the user to other files after making a selection from a subject index.

Multi-modal access to large data volumes

The multi-modal, interactive response system developed under the framework of the THESEUS program illustrates just how information, multimedia content, and services may be accessed by using spoken language, keyboard input, and gestures, using the example of Wikipedia and an extended music ontology.

SemProM - Semantic product memory

Smartlabels give products a memory and support intelligent logistics. Products keep their own logs, know their place of manufacture, know what features they posses, and what their transportation destination is. In the context of the ICT- 2020 research funding program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Innovation Alliance Digital Product Memory is developing the key technologies for the Internet of Things with the collaborative SemProM project.

Semantics at home

The interaction and navigation inside the Bremen Ambient Assisted Living Lab (BAALL: DFKI's home-based assisted living model) is based on the technologies of semantic modeling. The systems represented here use semantic technologies such as ontologies or spatial calculation to enable a multimodal interaction with a mobility assistant for wheelchairs and the intelligent home. Input media like the head-joystick, touch screen, or spoken word may be used.

Semantic voice response tools

Based on the research of the Secure Cognitive Systems department and the University of Bremen, these semantic voice response tools support the formal development of semantic-based human-machine-interaction models in various applications, such as natural language dialogues with different systems.

CompanyM - Merging and Monitoring

CompanyM (M stands for "merging and monitoring") collects, based on an ontology, corporate financial data. The results are then enriched with timestamp information and compared with previously known data. Any changes are automatically identified and made accessible, for example, to banks or rating agencies or even regulatory institutions and business journalists.