RE: CG: Sonetto CG-based rule and search engine wins awards for Retail Affiliate Management

Hi Fred,

Thank you.

IBM licensed Peirce CG Workbench (1995) which had the classic
classification and retrieval algorithms. Their purpose was to build a NL
information retrieval system. The project was eventually canned.

I built another system, called Santiago (1997), which was a vast
improvement on performance which was funded by defence.

I have built a new search engine in Sonetto on top of SQL server (2002).
Documents are encoded in CGIF. Product documents are like object graphs.
We are taking unstructured documents and structuring them through
business rules.  The purpose is to categorise, enrich with attributes,
standardise etc. This enriched data is then used in navigated search,
product comparison, affiliate management etc.

Regards, Gerard.

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Subject: Re: CG: Sonetto CG-based rule and search engine wins awards for
Retail Affiliate Management

Hi Gerard,

Congratulations on  your long-overdue awards. :)
Just a couple of questions.

Whatever happened to the CG database you were building for IBM, did they

ever use it?, or else,  what was their intended use for it?

Second, what do you mean by the words, "conceptual graphs as the
representation for documents"?  What kind of "documents"?  "business
documents"?  "product documents"?   Is a  "product document" an
object-attribute list ? ...  it would be interesting to know.

Regards
Fred



Gerard Ellis wrote:

>Thank you to all the kind responses. I expect we will put some
>whitepaper out shortly. Possibly some more formal publications as well.
>I have demonstrated an earlier version of Sonetto previously at ICCS in
>Germany a few years ago. I would like to demonstrate it at ICCS again.
>
>We use conceptual graphs as the representation for documents in our
>system, as well as category query definitions, rules and schema
>information, pretty much everything. We have engineered the system
based
>on a semantic search engine and ripple down rules engine. The key thing
>is that rules and categories are defined over business documents by
>business users. No knowledge engineers or IT assistance is required.
The
>affiliates problem is one of building a semantic model for a product
>document from poor data, then translating it into the categories and
>attributes of various affiliates: froogle, kelkoo, shopping.net,
>shopping.com, ebay, yahoo etc. We manage to do this for large
catalogues
>with minimal maintenance.
>
>Regards, Gerard.
>
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