- Semantic Research
Infobox_Company
company_name = Semantic Research, Inc.
company_logo =
company_type = Private
company_slogan = I see what you're thinking
foundation =2001
location =4922 North Harbor Drive San Diego CA
key_people =Richard T. "Chip" Harrison ,CEO Charles A. Gillespie IV ,President
Rick Ross, VP, TechnologyJoseph Faletti ,Chief Scientist
Jason Wells, VP, Natural Language Products
Tim Murphy, VP, Disruptive Technologies
Paul Storer,VP, Consulting
num_employees = 15 (2007 )
industry =Information Technology
products =Knowledge Representation Visualization Concept mapping
homepage = [http://www.semanticresearch.com/ http://www.semanticresearch.com/]Semantic Research, Inc. (commonly referred to as Semantic Research or simply Semantic, and not to be confused with
Symantec ), incorporated in2001 , is a privately heldsoftware company headquartered inSan Diego ,California . The company manufactures and sells software for creating, viewing, storing and sharing of knowledge structures [cite web |publisher= freshnews.com |url= http://www.freshnews.com/news/computers-internet/article_13916.html?Semantic+Research |title=Agreement with Worthmore Inc.| accessdate=2007-05-11] . It also provides custom software development and provides applied computer science research [cite web |publisher= techrepublic.com |url= http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/whitepaper.aspx?docid=93981 |title=Semantic Object Model whitepaper| accessdate=2007-05-11] for its customers. The company began with software originally developed under the name SemNet. [cite web |publisher= eric.ed.gov |url= http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ463175&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&accno=EJ463175
title=Semantic Networking: The New Kid on the Block.| accessdate=2007-05-11] [cite web |publisher= sdsu.edu |url= http://naturalsciences.sdsu.edu/tutorial.html |title=SemNet Tutorial| accessdate=2007-05-11]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 orJPG 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.Products
Semantic Research offers a variety of software packages for the
Microsoft Windows andMac 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 ServerIn addition to providing prepackaged software, Semantic also develops custom software for government customers on a per project basis.
References
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