Shameless plug for my session at SemTech 2011

I will be speaking in a few weeks at SemTech 2011 (actually on Tuesday afternoon, June 7th, from 1:40 to 2:30pm). The meeting is in San Francisco, and you can register at the SemTech website. I can even provide a 15% discount code (SPK15).

So, what am I talking about (actually, demoing!)? My passions for processing of natural language text to extract business vocabulary and rules, and semantic technologies (of course).

Here are a couple of high points from the presentation (I won't repost the abstract, since you can read that online):

• Architectural overview and demo of the infrastructure (with explanations of what components are used and why)
  
• In particular, I will focus on:
  • Microsoft Word application add-in programming
    
  • Grammatical Framework
    
  • Stanford's language parser
    
  • The Pellet reasoner
    
  • The KAoS policy ontology from Florida's Institute for Human Machine Cognition
• A short discussion of my experience to-date and the many next steps that are needed

I really encourage attendance at this conference, as I strongly believe that semantic technologies offer great insights and capabilities for business.

Andrea