BOTTARI is a service which provides geo context information and social context information. The service recommends Points of Interest (POIs) with geo context information for users through augmented reality based on location and view angle of users’ smart phones (Android OS).
Geo context information includes detailed information of the POIs such as GPS coordinates, contacts, menus, price and so on, and also includes subjective information such as ambience, reviews, etc. Social context information includes reputations of POIs analysed from social media messages by machine learning. And BOTTARI is able to recommend some POIs based on the information of social context information. For these functions, there are four buttons (Figure 1). ‘For me’ to recommend POIs which can be preferred by the current user, ‘Popular’ ones which have much of positive reputations on Twitter, "Emerging" ones which is similar to "Popular" showing the most popular in the last 6 months and ‘Interesting’ ones which can be interesting to visit for the foreign visitors in Korea.
Figure 1 - BOTTARI Service UI
From the BOTTARI user interface, POIs are shown on the basis of the current user position. And if the menu button located left bottom in the UI is pressed, it will display some options for choosing recommendation and distance filters (shown in Figure 1).
Figure 2 - Selection of a POI
If one of the POIs is selected, BOTTARI will display its description/introduction and the list of POIs which are near the selected POI, and there is the ‘Details’ button to query details of the POI (see Figure 2). If the button is selected, details are displayed including reputations, map and pictures (shown in Figure 3).
Figure 3 - POI Details
In the details view, the "reputation" button let the user see the details on the POI reputation (Figure 4). The reputation trends view shows monthly reputations from some perspectives of overall, taste, comfort and service using graphs displaying positive and negative messages counts.
SALTLUX was initiated as a specialized company for natural language processing. It is the best company in Korea in text mining and semantic technology.
[IN2]DOR and TMS, the integral search engine and mining engine awarded the prize of Minister of Information and Telecommunication in the new SW product grand prize on 2003. [IN2]Discovery, semantic integral search engine awarded the prize of Minister of Knowledge and Economy on March 2010. We awarded the presidential prize which is the best wining out of the companies which awarded the prized from ministers in the new SW product. We are proud that it is a unique search engine awarded the president prize after awarding the new SW prize from ministries not from the public exhibition contest.
Actually, Saltlux notified the semantic technology which was not aware by the customer in less matured market situation and was not afraid of providing the solution combined with semantic technology to the search engine, knowledge management solution, document management solution and group ware which was used in the company. That is the [IN2] Discovery which was developed in single shape by combination of every technology.
Somebody told that semantic is bluffing, there is no market, and the commercialization is difficult. And others told that pay attention on the cash cow business of integral search engine and semantic is not a company for search engine. However, semantic had drawn attention as the most powerful next generation runner in the market with distinguished function of individual search in the integral search engine. Especially, semantic reached to intensify on the technology to analyze and utilize the anomalous data not only the automatic classification/summary/grouping/extraction in the information mining technology. All of these was performed in the selective decision that semantic search engine will take a position soon as a standard search engine circulating in the market from 2003. The analysis mining technology of Saltlux makes the semantic technology as more advanced.
After long time of waiting in endurance, finally Saltlux reached to make the market structure where there is no choice without making the search engine based on semantic technology by everybody while producing a new trend in the integral search engine market. There was a big progress with the most powerful semantic search engine on 2010 when the SNS was popularized and awarded the presidential prize, the best prize.
SALTLUX, as a leading company for sharing the technology for valuable life with customer and feeling the happiness in the cooperation, launched the “semantic search engine of Discovery 2 as more developed governance for anomalous contents” in the semantic search market where every company was involved now. The final version will be completed in the beginning of coming year, but the currently distributed beta version becomes a new technology and new experience to the customer.
The Discovery of semantic is the algorithm, solution and product made from the study driven by customer needs.
The glory of president prize is owing to the customers who thought and introduced the solution together for the better life of organization in believing to semantic. Thank you and thank you again.
SALTLUX will be a coordinator and partner for everybody in the world to knowledge communicate as a company providing more valuable solution and a knowledge service company representing Korea in better shape in 2011.
The product of awarding is the [IN2] Discovery (It is called as [IN2] Discovery hereinafter.), the semantic integral search engine. It is the epidemic product for the next generation search engine.
President of Saltlux, Kyung-il Lee said, “the awarding of the president prize in this time is the approval on the effort contributed to the level improvement in search technology and industry of Korea by the advancement of the semantic technology in Korea and taking a lead in the next generation search market” and emphasized “Saltlux will make the world for intelligent search which makes the integrated knowledge networking of information and human available as the world class semantic technology company beyond Korea.”
[IN2] DISCOVERY is the next generation semantic integral search engine to integrate. search, control, analysis, recycle the anomalous contents and knowledge asset inside and outside of the organization. It awarded the GS certificate and new SW product grand prize for January and February.
‘[IN2] Discovery’, the semantic based search solution for company from Saltlux (President, Kyung-il Lee) was selected as the best SW in the year by wining the presidential prize in the part of Product Awards in the Korea SW Grand Prize on 2010.
[IN2] DISCOVERY is a product evaluated in the point that it took a lead in the market in anticipation of the development to the semantic search from the traditional integral search oriented in the company search engine market.
President of semantic, Kyung-il Lee explained, “it is a product which helps to utilize the non-structural information as the company asset by analyzing in diversified angles’ and ‘it is a product of efficiency to find the scope of affairs speedy and easily for better decision making with a search solution.” He said his ambition to develop, “to a knowledge based service specialized company with the product and service based on the semantic technology which is the core technology of future industry.”
Saltlux exhibited and presented jointly with ISE Company the optimized search server to the translation management system.
The event with more than 700 attendances from the world was initiated by the topic speech with the subject of “The future of technical communication connecting the human and product.” It was progressed oriented to the status of electronic manual based on the web and Java, variation in the image illust, status of manual introduction for DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture), introduction of manual for cognitive science and various next generation production cases.
In addition, the evolution of the translation through sharing and open of human oriented design of technical writing, standardization of the translation quality, the issues related with the changes in the manual owing to the smart phone, electronic book and digital device development were discussed.
Executive Managing Director of Saltlux, Suk-hwan Shin, said, “currently, the technical writing in the TC industry has been developing to the manual to connect the user beyond the user oriented” and “it is important to establish and keep the international standard with communicating the various experiences between the supplier and user.”
The International Meeting for TC Standard (TC in a Globalized World 2010) was held with invitation of the TC related persons from Korea, USA and China on 23rd before the TC Symposium. Executive Managing Director, Suk Hwan Shin and Director, Suk Jin Jang from Saltlux and president, Yang Suk Kim from Hansam Easy User Guide were attended on behalf of the Korea TC Association.
[Product introduction]
This product is the combination of the [IN2] Search Box, the search portal system from Saltlux and Indesign Addon Toolin Receive Energy from ISE. It was made to utilize the glossary for terminology and similar manual document which were verified in the past while working on the manual writing and it support quality assurance of manual and the productivity improvement of the writer through this. In addition, there is a merit to reduce the translation cost because the verified English sentence is searched simultaneously during the multi language manual writing. It has been sold in Japan and it will be sold in Korea at the end of 2010.
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