lod2 plenary meeting 2011: zemanta – partner introduction
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Slides of Zemanta (Slovenia) for their partner introduction as a new LOD2 partner in the course of the LOD2 project enlargement - presented at the LOD2 plenary meeting in Leuven, Belgium on September 2011TRANSCRIPT
ZEMANTA
LOD2 meeting @ Leuven, Belgium
September 19, 2011
The story of
Zemanta begins
Ljubljana | Slovenia
Mastermind(s)
The idea
So simple and so cool
But what if…
And the winner is…
The Evil Plan
The Secretary
Dude, where‘s my Zemanta?
Live demo
Delivery of goodies
Browser extensions Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer @ sites: wordpress.com, blogger.com, TypePad, Drupal, Tumblr…
Plug-ins
Wordpress, Movable Type, Drupal Gmail, Yahoo! mail Windows Live writer
API
The assimilated
Open is the new black
IMDB, last.fm, Wikipedia, Freebase
Amazon, Snooth, stock tickers
CrunchBase
The masses
Articles from blogs & big media players (CNN, BBC, Reuters, ...)
My precious
API http://developer.zemanta.com
The magic
Plain text Structured information
What do you get? Tags, images, in-text links, related links, categorization
Recap on Zemanta
Slovenian company, established 2007
HQ @ Ljubljana & New York
Seedcamp winners
Investment from Eden, TAG, Union Square Ventures
Semantics, triples, machine learning
Zemanta vs Others
Yet another commercial NLP company? Not really.
Cross-domain
Working on ‚Web English‘
We deliver value to the writers. We blog.
Back to the Future @ LOD2
Discovering entities @ blogs
Zemanta‘s recommender engine 2.0
Integration of LOD datasets?
Improved quality of Z engine?
Cleansing + Crowdsourcing = #win
Google Refine + Amazon Mechanical Turk?
The Z-team @ LOD2
Mastermind Andraž Tori [email protected] Twitter: @andraz
Sidekick
Dr Mateja Verlič [email protected] Twitter: @sparkica
Just like Batman and Robin, but different
But seriously…
You might think this presentation is (a bit) funny, but we are dead serious when it comes to business.
In case of emergency