delivering document search over the web using semantic web technologies
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Greetings
Gus CreedonProgram Manager
W: 703-917-7272
2000 Corporate Ridge
McLean, VA 22102
Delivering document search
over the web
using semantic web technology.
OpenPolicyknowledge drives the search
™
Product Overview:
Dramatically decreases time to search any prose
• Policy/regulatory research
• Owner’s manual search
• Help desk Q&A support
• eDiscovery
• Academic studies
• Training
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Product Overview:
Need to disrupt the document search paradigm
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OpenPolicy provides paragraph-level results w/o Cntr+F
Download a PDF
Open it
Use Cntrl+F and key words
Product Advantage:
Under the hood – build thesaurus once and reuse
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Use case 1:
Connect your mobile phone to a rental car
• Without semantic search
– Manual doesn’t reference “bluetooth” or “wireless”
– 30 minutes later, thumb across “handsfree”
• With OpenPolicy semantic search
– Automotive thesaurus finds “hands-free” paragraphs
– Completely eliminates 30 minutes of search
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Use case 2:
Search entire DFARS for US Code references
• Today’s status quo
– Find the regulation on the web
– Download 60 HTML files or 380 PDF files
– Open each file
– Use Cntrl+F to search for exact matches
• Using semantic search
– Land on the OpenPolicy search site
– Select “US Code” from a drop-down
– Acquisition thesaurus contains “U.S.C.” and “US Code”
– Instantly finds 326 results
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Use Case 3:
Shop through hundreds of Army personnel regulations
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Use Case 4:
Search Army policy for “ammunition”
Use Case 5:
Searching with thesaurus + string + exact phrase
Technology Advantage:
OpenPolicy - what emerging technologies?
• Semantic search delivers user friendly results
– Driven by a subject-matter-expert thesaurus
– Extracts complete paragraphs and breadcrumb
• W3C (www.w3.org) standards enables open content
– Resource Description Framework (RDF)
– Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
• Semantic technology is right for the job
– Triple-store database by Ontotext.com
– Open source text analytics and document repository tools
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Product Value Proposition:
Benefits
• Improves regulatory compliance
• Captures the knowledge of subject-matter-experts
• Improves quality of search results
• Eliminates the download/open/Cntr+F paradigm
• Saves a fantastic amount of time
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OpenPolicyknowledge drives the search
Gus CreedonProgram Manager