Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ‘98 Info-Source Glut The Next Layer in the Information Retrieval Problem Presented By: Edwin R. Addison Founder, Chairman & CEO KnowledgeLink Interactive, Inc.

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Drowning in Info-Source Glut Too Many Choices Too Many Formats Not Enough Time

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Natural Language Text Search DictionarySemantic Network aardvark-- aback-- abacus. zwieback zygote zymosis 1: (n) a slab which forms the uppermost member of the capital of a column 2: (n) an instrument for performing calculations by slicing counters along rods calculator: 3 abacus:2 counter:4 instrument:6 computer:2 computation:1

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Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 RECALL PRECISION Boolean Statistical Semantic Network Precision and Recall

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Impact of the Web

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Drowning in Info-Source Glut Too Many Choices Too Many Formats Not Enough Time

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Existing Partial Solutions Microsoft Explorer PointCast Netscape YahooInternet

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Microsoft Explorer PointCast Netscape YahooInternet Documentum Lotus Notes Excalibur Oracle Intranet Existing Partial Solutions

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Existing Partial Solutions Microsoft Explorer PointCast Netscape YahooInternet Documentum Lotus Notes Excalibur Oracle Intranet UMI DIALOG Dow Jones Lexis/Nexis OnlineServices

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Existing Partial Solutions Microsoft Explorer PointCast Netscape YahooInternet Documentum Lotus Notes Excalibur Oracle Intranet COMTEX Reuters Wavephore NewsEDGE News UMI DIALOG Dow Jones Lexis/Nexis OnlineServices

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Flow of Information

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Early Solutions WAIS MINERVA GC/ASK INFOMARKET

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98GC-ASK Users Agents Databases ASK Server INTERNET

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 KnowledgeLink Solution Rapid, Single-Point Access to Personalized Information from the Broadest Range of Intranet, Internet, Newsfeeds & Professional Online Sources

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 PerSavant™ Server Architecture A Knowledge Broker Approach to Knowledge Management

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Role of Analysis Tools Owners Vendors Facilitators Users Enhancing Filtering Querying Questing Reporting Disseminating Extracting Discovering SummarizingCategorizing Content

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 What is Knowledge Management? Creation Gathering & Indexing Sharing Leveraging & Distribution

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ’98 Drowning in Info-Source Glut Too Many Choices Too Many Formats Not Enough Time

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