Semantic Software Asia Pacific Limited (SSAP), an Australian research and development company based in Sydney, has released the first suite of its Semantic Computing Platform, Semantiro, described as a fundamental building block to achieving a complete cognitive environment.

This platform promises the ability to enrich the semantics of data collected from disparate data sources, and enables a computer to understand its context and meaning. A computer can then undertake much of the heavy lifting usually performed by data analysts.

The company is developing a modular architecture for Semantiro to allow individuals and organisations the freedom to customise their own cognitive computing solution, built on or integrated with their existing systems.

Semantic Software’s Ontology Management Suite, Ontocuro is the first suite of core components to be released under the Semantiro platform. These bespoke components will allow users to safely prune unwanted concepts and axioms; validate existing, new or refined ontologies; and import, store and share these ontologies via the Library.

“Ontocuro is an industry driven set of components closing the gap between theory and practice” said Dr Dzung Le, SSAP’s Chief Data Scientist.

Ontocuro Basic allows individual users and organisations the opportunity to familiarise themselves with various ontologies and their concepts in order to achieve contextual data analysis. Through this suite, users will navigate their way through complex processes as well as allowing users to collaborate effectively with their peers.

Semantic Software claims that knowledge management tools are scarce, and the tools currently available are very technical and counter-intuitive. The most popular and widely-adopted, Protégé; the Stanford Centre for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) knowledge management application, was developed to build and maintain biomedical ontologies and, as such, is difficult for those not ‘practiced in the art’ to use.

Publicly available ontologies can be utilised to generate context-driven queries, however these can be very large and extremely complex. In order for the greater population to adopt these technologies such as ontologies and RDF, Semantic Software says that intuitive, user-centric applications must be made available.

See more at: www.semanticsoftware.com/ontocuro