iSOCO participates in Semantic Web project SEKT

BT leads EU search research

BT Exact will head up a European Commission (EC) funded project to give search engines the ability to deliver results in the right 'context'.

The idea is to eradicate the growing problem of finding the right information from the multitude of unstructured text on the internet.

BT's research, technology and IT operations arm, BT Exact, will work together with twelve European partners on the Semantic Knowledge Technologies (SEKT) project. The team believes it will develop technology that will 'revolutionise' search engines and other 'knowledge management systems'. At present such tools are unable to conduct searches in context, leaving the user with a long list of both relevant and irrelevant web pages to sift through.

SEKT claims it will develop technology that will mimic the human ability to assess the context of the information entered, leaving out unrelated text before posting the results.

Within the team's projections, tools will be developed to deliver information to users based on their current interests and type of device they are using to browse the web or other knowledge banks.

Others affiliated to the project include, Empolis, iSOCO, Kea-pro, Ontoprise and SIRMA AI, along with academic researchers in areas including the semantic web, human language technology and knowledge discovery.

SEKT will conduct trial runs from initial case studies through libraries in the legal, media and telecommunications industries with the project forecasted to run over three years.

www.sekt.semanticweb.org

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