Knowledge tools for the trade

Targeting the Global 1000, software developers and e-commerce technology companies, Applied Semantics, formerly Oingo, has created an enterprise division to develop and market what it calls Knowledge Tools that enable automatic, enterprisewide metatagging, categorization, summarization and search of unstructured information.

Applied Semantics says it will begin immediate deployment of four new products:

• Metadata Creator, which is said to improve text-based search by determining the most important concepts on a page and generating the most appropriate metatags;

• Auto-Categorizer, which automates document categorization by reading a document, determining its meanings and placing it into a predefined taxonomy of subject categories;

• Page Summarizer, a tool that reads a document, summarizes its meaning and chooses the most representative sentence(s) or phrase(s); and

• Enterprise Suite, a complete meaning-based solution.

  The Knowledge Tools are based on the company’s Circa technology, which Applied Semantics describes as an extensive, scalable ontology that consists of millions of words, their meanings and their conceptual relationships to other meanings in the human language.