At the Third Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2010) Arjen de Vries, Wouter Alink, and Roberto Cornacchia from Spinque and the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam have been awarded the first prize for their 'Search by Strategy' presentation and demo.
The 3rd ESAIR workshop was held on 30 October 2010 in Toronto. The topic of the workshop was semantic annotations, which refers to linguistic annotations, user annotations, and other related information added to textual or other objects. Out of seventeen poster presentations, Spinque was ultimately chosen by the audience, showing the appreciation in the science community of their unique view on search technology.
Spinque is a CWI spin-off company. It has been founded by three researchers from the Interactive Information Access research group. Spinque develops search technology for information specialists, combining the key advantages of databases and information retrieval.
Establishing spin-off companies like Spinque is an important instrument for CWI to transfer technology and knowledge to society. Spinque continues developing search technology in the area of scalability, quality and flexibility. Spinque’s commercial activities will raise new fundamental questions that can be addressed by CWI.
More information:
http://www.sics.se/jussi/esair2010/esair.html
http://www.cwi.nl/research-groups/Interactive-Information-Access
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