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Welcome to ESTC 2008 PDF Print E-mail

The 2008 European Semantic Technology Conference is the only European conference that brings together a global community of practitioners working to apply semantic technology to diverse media platforms and leverage the technology in the commercial environment.

After extensive research conducted with leaders in semantic technology from the world's top academic institutions, corporate leaders, and leading expert suppliers, we have perfected a truly distinctive experience for organisations that are looking to implement semantic technology to impact their ability to access and integrate data across their enterprise.

The 2008 European Semantic Technology Conference brings together the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers, and senior practitioners within organisations responsible for information technology and systems in one place to learn about how to integrate this unparalleled technology into their operations.

 

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Program Highlights

Keynotes

Extraction and resolution capabilities for entities, events and facts
Peter Jackson - Chief Scientist Thomson Reuters Professional
Barak Pridor - CEO of Clearforest, a Thomson Reuters Markets company

Internet of Services
Orestis Terzidis - Director SAP Research Centre CEC

Getting at the Semantics of Texts
Hans Uszkoreit - Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Head of DFKI Language Technology Lab

Improving Search with Semantic Technologies: Current Research Directions
Hugo Zaragoza - Yahoo! Research Barcelona

Other Program Highlights

  • Experts talking about Semantic Search: new kind of methodologies and innovative information retrieval technologies used for specialized search engines, like Hakia, Matrixware and seekda.
  • Presentations dealing with the question of how Semantic solutions can improve Business Intelligence - interoperability of data, systems and organizations.
  • Mills Davis of Project10x sharing forecasts on the growing market for semantic technologies.
  • Pharma companies like UCB and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals will present case studies about using semantics in managing pharmaceutical data
  • Other highlights include talks on semantic wikis, the semantic desktop, semantic enterprise knowledge, large semantic data repositories and semantic mobile environments.
  • Three panel discussions will complete the program.

Important Dates

Tutorials: 24th September (half day)
Business Idea Contest: 25th September (2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.)
Main Conference: 24th September (afternoon) – 26th September 2008
Exhibition: 24th September (afternoon) – 26th September 2008

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