[iks-community] salsaDev, IKS community presentation

[Stephane Gamard]

Dear IKS community members,

My name is Stéphane Gamard, founder and CTO of salsaDev - an  
Information Access company. We've joined the IKS community and upon  
John's recommendation it is my pleasure to briefly present our  
company, what we do and give you a sneak preview of what we'll be  
showing at the up-comming IKS workshop in November.

Information overload, non-structured data, dirty and miss-tagged/ 
classified information put a strain on the knowledge-worker. Timely  
access to critical and relevant information can be become a daunting  
and time consuming task, especially when the user only has a vague and/ 
or non-explicit idea of the information sought.

salsaDev uses a technology emerged from language acquisition research  
at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to index textual information  
at a conceptual level. Our approach to information access is not a  
replacement solution, but a high-value added feature: knowledge  
workers are provided with a sense-centric/meaning-aware access to  
their relevant content.

A very pragmatic and typical user cases: An IP lawyer, while filling  
for a patent, must read, evaluate and discriminate tremendous amount  
of non-relevant information (too often also out of the scope of his  
own area of expertise). A sense-based system such as salsaDev's can  
read the patent application and provide meaning-based related  
information that might be of interest.

salsaDev provides a service platform enabling innovative and meaning- 
based information management. I've attached a screenshot of our latest  
demo (which we'll showcase during the next IKS workshop). In the  
screenshot a user highlights parts of a website. Our Firefox plugin  
(embedded JS popup at the bottom right) sends the highlighted content  
to salsaDev and retrieves related articles. In this example we've used  
wikipedia as the source of a "some-what" structured information data- 
set.

This is salsaDev in a nutshell (an extended one I am aware). I am sure  
this short presentation raises more questions than it answers, so  
please feel free to send me any questions you might have. In the mean  
time and in preparation for the next workshop I wish you all a very  
semantic day ;)

Cheers,

_Stephane

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Stéphane Gamard, Founder
stephane.gamard at salsadev.com
http://www.salsadev.com
skype   :  stephane.gamard
Mobile :  +41 (0)78 914 8802
Office   :  +41 (0)22 884 8302





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