The SemTech 2009 Conference – San Jose, CA, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 – Ontos™ is opening a new semantic API which accepts raw texts and returns information about people, companies, places, statements, opinions, etc. Behind Ontos API is a powerful natural language processing engine OntosMiner™, which analyzes texts in English, German, Russian and French. The web-accessible API will also include tools for managing personal ontologies and dictionaries, and for merging same or similar entities.

The new Ontos API offers the semantic community a possibility to create new applications without having to think about how to create document metadata, identify similar entities across documents and get semantic metadata for a specific knowledge domain. Via the API, the developer gets access to a powerful natural language processing engine which is able to recognize dozens of types of entities and relations, and to a full-scale RDF database allowing to merge entities, get analytics for document collections, etc.

The key advantage of Ontos API is a set of tools allowing developers to upload their personal dictionaries and ontologies for specific knowledge domains. If you want the system to recognize something special, just add a dictionary, and OntosMiner™ will annotate your documents with your personal concepts/entities. The fact that the system is based on open standards promoted by W3C gives it huge flexibility and accessibility.

The system behind the new API was initially approved under Ontos projects for corporate customers. A convincing customer feedback reassures us that semantic applications developers may considerably benefit from a public version of the system provided via the web-accessible API.

 

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