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Autonomy
Systems Ltd
Technology focus: provides software infrastructure that
automates the processing of unstructured information (for e-commerce,
crm, knowledge management, etc)
Products:
Commerce
Application Builder: flexible, scalable and fully automated e-commerce
content infrastructure for managing and personalizing e-commerce
content to enable more and more high quality transactions.
Autonomy XML
Engine: Enables XML applications to understand conceptual information,
independent of variations in tagging schemas or the variety of
applications in use. Automatically inserts XML tags.
Voice Suite:
Plugs into any Autonomy product, allowing businesses to implement
intelligent, scalable and applications that handle multimedia
content.
Active Knowledge:
Automatically brings relevant information to employees as they
work, thereby eliminating the need to stop and search for information.
Further info:
At the heart
of Autonomy's software is its ability to analyse text and voice
(in any language) and identify and rank the main concepts within
it. It can then automatically categorise, link, personalise and
deliver that information. The technology is used to automate these
operations within enterprise information portals, customer relationship
management, knowledge management and e-business applications.
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Applied
Psychology Research (APR)
Technology focus: specialise in intelligent software designed
to enhance decision making through understanding the psychology
of users and the content they require.
Further
Info:
Applied Psychology
Research (APR) offers decision intelligence solutions, designed
for people who need to make transaction judgements.
APR's Youmeus
Significance Engine understands the psychology of individual users,
bringing order to large quantities of unstructured information,
so that the right information is delivered to the right person
at the right time.
Youmeus is
unlike traditional personalisation or classification systems which
only address half the problem. It is able to profile individuals
and classify information, delivering context and insight, in order
that better decisions can be made.
APR is backed
by Barclays Ventures Technology Group, Intel Capital and Sussex
Place Partners. The company has worked with a range of blue chip
clients, including the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Affinity
Internet Holdings and Blockbuster Entertainment Plc.
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Infogistics
Infogistics Limited is an Edinburgh-based company founded by internationally
recognized experts in the fields of text-mining and document retrieval.
Having designed
the winning entry for the University of Edinburgh in the prestigious
US Department of Defence-sponsored competition in Message Understanding
in 1998, Dr. Andrei Mikheev left the University and teamed up
with Dr. Steve Finch to develop Infogistics' groundbreaking new
technology.
Infogistics
is a leading provider of text-analysis solutions across multiple
markets including HR, law enforcement, knowledge management and
CRM. Combining award-winning software applications with patent-pending
technology, Infogistics helps organizations locate and link key
pieces of information within their vast databases.
Technology
focus: text-analysis, content extraction and document retrieval
solutions across multiple areas of industry.
Products:
Real Term: a powerful new technology from Infogistics which combines
the flexibility of a query-based search with guided browsing capabilities
of directories.
Xtractor:
an engine that sifts through large volumes of texts, creates database
records for the objects in the texts and identifies their relationships.
NLProcessor:
segments texts into sentences, disambiguates sentence starting
words, assigns the correct reading of the word given the context
and groups words into syntactic structures.
XML Zoner:
flexible set of re-usable components for segmenting texts into
their structural parts (paragraphs, tables, titles).
Further info:
The early-stage firm, which has three staff in Edinburgh and four
in Moscow, was founded to commercialise natural language processing
technology developed at Edinburgh University. It is hoping to
provide text-analysis, content extraction and document retrieval
services across areas of industry including HR, law enforcement,
knowledge management and CRM.
Infogistics'
products utilise new advanced document understanding and clustering
technology developed by world-leading experts in the fields of
Information Retrieval and Document Understanding. All Infogistics'
products are XML and Internet enabled and can be integrated easily
into existing workflow systems, from large bespoke enterprise
installations to multiple workstations running Microsoft Office.
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Linguamatics
Technology
focus: Dialogue management systems, intelligent information
extraction, automatic reporting,
Products:
Intelligent Extraction: To coin a phrase, your organisation
is data-rich but information-poor . You've got access to masses
of electronic text, but you know that getting information out
of it will take more time than you can spare or afford.
Intelligent
Extraction is as simple to use as Alta Vista or Google and your
queries produce not a million documents but tables of information
ready to import into all your usual software (Access, Excel etc).
Intelligent
Dialogue: Many automated booking systems are tedious and frustrating
to use because they have rigid structures that prevent the user
taking the initiative. Linguamatics' Intelligent Dialogue system
supplies abstract representations of, for example, a booking process
to a flexible and intelligent dialogue handler. This means that
rather than the dialogue proceeding along lines determined by
the system, the system can adjust the way it conducts an interaction
according to the input it receives:
Further
info:
Linguamatics was founded in late 2001 to create world-class products
and conduct
cutting-edge research in the areas of Information Extraction and
Dialogue Systems.
The founders
have extensive experience in the field of Computational Linguistics,
in
academic research and in product development.
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Smartlogik
Technology focus: information retrieval: automatic document
categorisation and information retrieval solutions.
Products:
'Structure': Automatic
Document Categorisation tools
- Rule-based
categorisation
- Dynamic
categorisation
- Industry-specific
starter rule-bases
- Tailored
thesaurus
- Categorisation
editing tool
Structure
is a set of world-class categorisation tools designed to enable
documents to be
automatically classified under related subjects, dramatically
enhancing the relevance of
search results.
Categorised
documents can be added to a searchable database to build an information
resource that can be accessed from anywhere in the world, with
the knowledge that the
items retrieved are the most appropriate and the most up to date.
Structure
reads and classifies documents from a variety of sources with
a consistent
classification terminology, enabling information retrieval tools
to pinpoint the documents
required, without the need to search through large volumes of
irrelevant data.
When used
in conjunction with Discovery, Structure's document categorisation
provides a
sophisticated solution to automatically widen the scope of a search
by extending the query vocabulary.
Discovery:
Probabilistic Searching tools
- Probabilistic
search engine
- Automated
indexing
- Dynamic
indexing
- Intuitive
interaction
- Alerts
- Document-level
security
Discovery
is an advanced information retrieval engine which provides a powerful
method of
interacting with the vast array of internal and external information
available, so that users
can discover information that is highly relevant to the task at
hand.
Discovery
presents users with an intuitive, natural language environment
enabling them to
interact with the search results to maximise the relevance of
the information delivered. It
identifies concepts from the user, maps these to concepts extracted
from all the information
sources available, and then identifies and suggests new and related
concepts automatically
- expanding the knowledge base and beginning the process of knowledge
creation.
Discovery
may be used as a complete information retrieval system, with flexible
and
highly configurable interfaces. EJB and COM+ development platforms
provide
high-level interfaces with the technology and are defined using
XML.
Discovery is fastest and most effective when used in conjunction
with the unique
Structure product that automatically categorises information.
Further info:
APR acquired
the assets of knowledge management products company, Smartlogik,
in May
2002. For customers, the acquisition creates an information management
suite which adds
Smartlogik's market leading information search and categorisation
capabilities to APR's
intelligent understanding of user needs.
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Transversal
Technology focus: Natural Language Search Technology, NLP
Products:
Transversal's metaFAQ products use natural language processing
(NLP) technology. With Transversal's natural language technology,
metaFAQ products automatically compensate for misspellings, recognize
synonyms and perform concept matching tasks.
Transversal's
Memory Engine is the basis of our natural language search technology.
The Memory Engine allows web site visitors to ask questions from
a site in plain English. The important ideas within a query or
a body of text are then automatically matched with all relevant
information in your metaFAQ knowledgebase. These results are displayed
for the visitor in order of relevance. As the visitor clicks on
information they find useful, the Memory Engine tracks their interests,
pinpointing what it is they want to know.
Further
info:
Transversal, an Internet Technology company based in Cambridge,
England, was founded in 1998 by Dr Davin Yap and Dr David MacKay.
Transversal benefits from the founders' close ties to the University
of Cambridge, which has made it easy to recruit some of the University's
most gifted graduates and programming wizards.
Transversal provides affordable, web-based customer support and
information management solutions.
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