<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear IKS community members,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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 ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>_Stephane</div><div><br><div>
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