[iks-community] Introduction: Tomaž Šolc, Zemanta

[Tomaž Šolc]

Hi everyone!

My name is Tomaž Šolc. I am head of research at Zemanta, working from
our headquarters in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I have a degree in electrical
engineering and I am developing algorithms for natural language analysis
and the proprietary triple store used by our content suggestion system.

Zemanta's content suggestion system is the main product of our company -
it takes a fragment of plain text as its input and provides images and
articles related to the topic of the text as well as relevant tags and
automatic explanatory in-text links. It achieves that by first
annotating the text with several components (like named entity
extraction, word sense disambiguation, classification) and then using
the annotated text to search through collections of similarly annotated
objects. This system can be used as an assistant for bloggers and other
authors: suggestions can be either automatically or manually applied to
enrich news articles and blog posts.