An example of polish SME engaged in Craft Project TRUST– Multilingual Semantic and Cognitive Search Engine for Text Retrieval using Semantic Technologies

TRUST Cooperative Research (CRAFT) Key Action 3 – Action Line: Contract Number IST Start: 1-Nov-2001 End: 31-Oct

Partners CONVIS Consult & marketing GmbH – Germany Expert System – Italy Priberam Informática – Portugese Semiosphere – France Synapse Développement – France TiP – Poland

Objectives: This project aims to device a multilingual semantic and cognitive search engine for text retrieval using semantic technologies. It sets to achieve a prototype able to understand questions asked in five languages: French, Italian, Polish, Portugese and Spanish.

Scheme Documents User Documents indexing Question processing Search processing Answer processing Blocks cutout Conceptual indexing Domains indexing Syntagms indexing Parsing and semantic analysis Question type and focus Conceptual framework Inference process Question refining Documents selection Blocks selection Blocks ordering Blocks parsing Blocks semantic analysis Answers identification Answer extraction Answers classification Answer or sentences Spelling check Named entities Spelling check

Project’s story July 1998 – first meeting in Dublin April 2000 – draft of the project October 2001 – signature of the contract

Tips for success Knowledge of european problems Good idea Contacts between partners Technologies Management The outcome of the project

On the other side of the mirror The role of experts; Read the call carefully, check if your idea goes with the objectives of this call; Use adequate language ; Write truth.

Kaligrafia Use type number 12 ; Drawings and charts are expected; Write clearly, summarise every chapter; Do not do too mauch copy/paste from the call text.

Questions?

Thank you Piotr W. Fuglewicz TiP Sp. z o. o., Katowice