Semantic Research
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| Semantic Research, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | 4922 North Harbor Drive San Diego CA |
| Key people | Richard T. "Chip" Harrison, CEO Charles A. Gillespie IV, President Rick Ross, VP, Technology Joseph Faletti, Chief Scientist Jason Wells, VP, Natural Language Products Tim Murphy, VP, Disruptive Technologies Paul Storer, VP, Consulting |
| Industry | Information Technology |
| Products | Knowledge Representation Visualization Concept mapping |
| Employees | 15 (2007) |
| Website | http://www.semanticresearch.com/ |
Semantic Research, Inc. (commonly referred to as Semantic Research or simply Semantic, and not to be confused with Symantec), incorporated in 2001, is a privately held software company headquartered in San Diego, California. The company manufactures and sells software for creating, viewing, storing and sharing of knowledge structures [1]. It also provides custom software development and provides applied computer science research [2] for its customers. The company began with software originally developed under the name SemNet. [3] [4]
[edit] Knowledge structure
In Semantic Research parlance, a knowledge structure is an interrelated collection of facts or knowledge about a particular topic. It is composed of concepts linked to other concepts by labeled relationships. A concept may be related to any number of other concepts via any number of relationships. In this manner a knowledge structure takes the form of a simplified semantic network. Unstructured documents, such as word processing documents or JPG images, may be attached to this structure, just as a file may be attached to an email message; these become special nodes in the network known as knowledge objects.
Knowledge structures may be stored in a file known as a Semantica Archive (or SAR) for single-user access, or they may be stored in a database repository for concurrent multi-user access.
[edit] Products
Semantic Research offers a variety of software packages for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms:
- Semantica Standard Edition (SE): Desktop program for creating, editing and viewing knowledge structures in SAR files
- Semantica Reader: Desktop program for viewing SAR files created in SE
- Semantica Education: An education-centric variant of SE, including tools for testing learning comprehension of the knowledge structure
- Semantica Enterprise Server: Server program providing persistence, transactionality, and multi-user concurrency services to knowledge structures
- Semantica Pro: Desktop program for creating, editing and viewing knowledge structures provided by Semantica Enterprise Server
In addition to providing prepackaged software, Semantic also develops custom software for government customers on a per project basis.
[edit] References
- ^ Agreement with Worthmore Inc.. freshnews.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
- ^ Semantic Object Model whitepaper. techrepublic.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
- ^ Semantic Networking: The New Kid on the Block.. eric.ed.gov. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
- ^ SemNet Tutorial. sdsu.edu. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
