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October 27, 2009

Semlab lecture at Dow Jones meeting in Frankfurt

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Semlab’s director of research, Dr. Mark Vreijling, was invited by Dow Jones to lecture on ‘Semantic analyses for non scheduled event driven trading’ at ‘The Evolution of Trading & Execution’ meeting in Frankfurt am Main, on Wednesday the 18th of November, 2009.

Other speakers include Prof. Dr. Christoph Lattemann (Professor for Corporate Governance & eCommerce, University of Potsdam), Nicole Schröpfer (Business Development Manager, Dow Jones), Klaus Brune (News Editor, Dow Jones).

For more information: Dow Jones Briefing

 

October 5, 2009

Solim project meeting in Riga

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The Solim project’s spatial reasoning system has been in development for one year and Semlab, Picsearch and AGMlab will meet their partner Tilde at their office in Riga this week to discuss the project’s future.

Last year, the project members have determined the application’s requirements and designed the language, reasoner, translation and image search functionality of the proof of concept (PoC) application. In the coming year, these separate elements will be implemented in order to build the final application.

For more information: Solim Project website

 

September 24, 2009

Semlab to enhance Market Risk assessment metrics

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Semlab, together with an international consortium of financial experts and supported by several large financial institutions, has submitted a proposal to the EU to enhance market risk assessment calculations by incorporating real time semantically analysed news-based market information.

The aim is to improve market risk metrics, such as the Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). The incorporation of financial news will compensate for inflexibility of existing models with regard to strong market fluctuations or market instability and give more dynamic and more reliable market risk estimation.

The consortium consists of several top level financial experts and software companies as well as cutting edge research institutes.

 

March 26, 2009

ViewerPro for early health risk warning

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SemLab is currently proposing a joint research effort, backed by the European Community to deploy their leading event extraction platform ViewerPro in the health risk domain.

SemLab will be leading a consortium of top level technology companies and academia to realise the next level in media monitoring. This project will include speech-to-text functionality, full support for multilinguality, self-learning event extraction and simulation-based event risk assessment.

 

March 23, 2009

Semlab researches spatial reasoning in Solim project

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The Solim project is now well on its way. Semlab, with partners Picsearch, Tilde and AGMlab are researching the possibilities of image-based content management.

The objective of the Solim project is to improve context-aware information analysis by expansion of state of the art ontology languages and their support for automated reasoning by adding a spatial dimension. This will enable semantic systems to venture beyond a static world and add the concepts of space and change.

Current technological tools for describing semantic knowledge are incapable of adequately supporting automated reasoning on the inherent spatial properties of concepts. Information with a spatial component can be described by using an ontology that treats locations as ordinary concepts. However, in doing so the temporal-spatial consequences of the described events (locations and movement) are lost in the formalisation. This means that knowledge about the spatial aspects (such as orientation, dimension, scale, location and movement of a concept) cannot be efficiently described inside the ontology, even though it comprises valid and persistent knowledge about the domain. Spatial properties can only be dealt with in an ad-hoc manner while these are among the basic properties of physical concepts expressed in many ontologies.

The Solim project extends the ontology web language OWL so that it can support effective storage and reasoning on spatial information, and will demonstrate the power of such an extension with automatic processing of textual and graphical information.

 

March 20, 2009

Welcome to Semlab’s blog

Welcome to Semlab’s blog. Semlab is a research and development company that focuses on knowledge discovery and decision support. Our products include ViewerPro (semantic analysis of economic news) and Meditra (decision suppport for triagist).

This blog will be used to keep you up to date on new developments of our products and research activities in computational linguistics, fuzzy logic, sematic web technologies, user interface design and many other related issues.