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Connotate Technologies, Inc.
Personal Information Agents
Going Beyond Search Using The New Semantic Web
Bruce G. MolloyCEO
About Connotate
• Market Leader in Web Data solutions for Financial Services and Publishing; Marquee Customers
• Substantial Patent covering the application of machine intelligence to the Web; developed by world class
scientists at Rutgers University
• Top-Flight Management Team: experienced, energized, executing
• Founded in 2000: New Brunswick, NJ; 70 employees
• Strong Financial Backing from Goldman Sachs and other private equity investors
• Growth Connotate is growing at more than 300% a year
• Leading Innovator of User Empowered, Information Access
Unique, Primary Research from the WebAutomotive Sector … many more sectors
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Unique, Primary Research from the WebLocal News, Message Boards, Blogs
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Information Access to Enterprise ResourcesDatabases, Email, Intranets, Enterprise Applications
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The Amount of Information Available To The Enterprise is Staggering
It is estimated that large corporations have more than 10,000 intranet applications
The web has even more information !
HOWEVER … getting information from the Enterprise and the Web often requires enormous manual effort
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Towards A Semantic Platform(a better approach)
Setting the Stage for Semantic Search and More
The Semantic Web provides a common framework that
allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries
W3C
Next Generation of the Web / Intranets ?
• The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001, Tim Berners-Lee
• Highly compelling vision for the next generation of the Web – a Standardized Web …
… however, it’s hard to get people to agree Why the 1st “Semantic Web” did not take off
•Politics
•Insufficient Market Forces
•“Standardization” by Committee
Esperanto (didn’t take off either)
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The New Semantic Web Using a Different Approach – Intelligent Software Agents
Intelligent Software Agents:- Access, tag, standardize, information
- Can be easily created by anyone, as needed
- Supercharge agility, search and access
- Are created and shared by communities of users similar in dynamic to
Using Intelligent Software Agents a whole new universe of applications is possible
Machine Intelligent Agents can interact with information just like humans…only better!
They can push buttons, fill in fields, watch, filter, format and deliver
They speak HTML, RSS, XML, Database, Excel and more
They don’t sleep
You can have thousands of them …
A Platform That Puts It All Together
Agent Community GEN2
Capture Site Navigation Steps & Actions
Take Actions •Extract Specific Data •Capture Files•Define Schemas
Visually Capture Content Elements
Training Agents
Search for Content or Agents of Interest
Agent Description & Summary
Finding Agents & Subscribing
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Applications
Semantic Search
• elements and schema, not just pages
• in time by periodicity
• local (by source)
• Intelligent
• across time, across sources
Semantic Monitoring
• elements and schema, not just pages
• in time by periodicity
• local (by source)
• across time, across sources
• generate alerts
Mashups Create Wholly New DataResearch Application
1. Monitor, harvest
information
2. Standardize,
aggregate, place in excel or a database or email
3. Enable other
applications: alerting, modeling, reporting, etc.
The Future
Agent Roadmap
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Personal Information Agents
Going Beyond Search Using The New Semantic Web
Bruce G. MolloyCEO
732.296.8844
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