Hello Dave,
Borislav is head of our Semantic Annotation group. He has been with
Ontotext for almost 10 years, so he has a long experience and expertise
with semantic technologies and NLP.
KIM uses a build-in version of GATE. Also we add some of our own
specific GATE processing resources, JAPE rules, etc - we have our own
pipeline. This pipeline was build based on experience in some EU
research and some commercial projects. That is why annotating with KIM
will give different results than annotating with GATE Annie. You may or
you may not prefer our pipe-line based on the requirements of your project.
The results of the extraction process are usually modeled in a knowledge
base as individual entities and relationships, with respect to a formal
conceptual model (ontology). This allows multi-paradigm retrieval on a
single semantic index, covering structural, textual and co-occurrence
based query and analysis. This is an advantage over GATE, but some
projects may not need this functionality.We do that thanks to our OWLIM
semantic database: http://ontotext.com/owlim. KIM has a buit-in version
of OWLIM. OWLIM also lives its own life as we have a team devoted to it.
OWLIM also does inference which also improves the whole picture when you
later makes queries to your data. I can give you some examples if you wish.
From developers point of view KIM acts as the server version of GATE,
has its own JAVA API. In general it provides its API through Java RMI
and web-services, but in the next version we will also include JMS. For
example we have a project for a pharmaceutical company that uses KIM
from .NET through web-services.
We also do some additional services on top of KIM that you might be
interested.
Hope this helps,
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Anton Andreev
email: [email protected]
Account Manager at Ontotext
www.ontotext.com
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On 2.3.2010 ?. 17:48 ?., Harrill, David C wrote:
Borislav,
Thanks for your quick reply. I wanted to ask an additional question
pertaining to the overall KIM application. I have also been working
with GATE and have been attempting to differentiate the two
applications i.e. What overall capability that KIM provides that GATE
does not (with associative plug-ins). I have been reviewing the vast
documentation for both applications and have been unable to come up
with a clear cut difference (excluding the wonderful search
capabilities in KIM). Could you potentially provide me with
information on why an individual would primarily use GATE over KIM or
vice versa. Again, thanks for your assistance in regard to this matter.
Dave
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