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Alliance Combines Powerful Categorization With Data Mapping For More Visual, Intuitive Navigation
San Mateo, Calif., Nov. 28, 2001 -- Semio Corporation, the leading provider of automated indexing and content categorization software, announced today that it is forming a technology alliance with Antarctica Systems, pioneer developer of visual mapping technology, to offer enterprises a unique Graphical User Interface for their categorized data, providing users with an expanded, visual framework for finding and sharing data. Semio and Antarctica will cooperatively sell and market their respective products, SemioTagger and Visual Net, to organizations seeking solutions for the management and visualization of unstructured data. Use of the combined products results in improved search relevancy and more intuitive navigation of datasets.
Semio uses a patented, linguistic-based categorization method and statistical clustering techniques to find the most relevant phrases and concepts within unstructured information matched to a customized taxonomy. Semio then organizes massive volumes of online content into easily understood, topic hierarchies by linking information based on the concept(s) contained in the phrases. After SemioTagger has categorized and tagged data, it is fed through Antarctica's Visual Net engine, which creates graphical, information-rich, large-scale maps of the newly structured data. "SemioTagger and Visual Net are totally complementary," said Tim Bray, founder of Antarctica. "Visual Net makes the work done by the Semio engine obvious in an intuitive, visual way and adds to the already strong value proposition. SemioTagger allows enterprises who want access to the superior Visual Net interface to get it by bringing out the structure hidden in their existing information."
"We are pleased to be partnering with Antarctica and offering our customers yet another option for the navigation and visualization of categorized data," said Roger Phillip, vice president of marketing and business development, Semio. "Mapping is a powerful way of presenting data and Antarctica is unquestionably a leader in the field of visual data presentation."
About Antarctica Systems, Inc.
Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Antarctica is a pioneer developer of visual mapping technology. The flagship product, Visual Net (VN) is a highly customizable information visualization tool based on visual mapping techniques that enables users to navigate and browse information easily across multiple databases and in multiple formats. VN is widely applicable to areas such as research libraries, corporate Intranets, and Ecommerce and cataloging. Antarctica Systems was founded in 1999 by early search engine pioneer and XML co-creator Tim Bray. Privately held, Antarctica's investment partners include Royal Bank Capital Partners, the Working Opportunity Fund and Primaxis Technology Ventures Inc. For additional information, please visit antarctica.net or call 866-NET-MAPS.
About Semio
Semio Corporation is the leading provider of content categorization and indexing technology used in portals, document management systems and knowledge management applications. Semio's customers include AT&T, DuPont, Stanford HighWire Press, Eli Lilly, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Procter & Gamble and the United States Postal Service. Semio has partnerships with major portal vendors such as Epicentric, Plumtree, InfoImage and Citrix. Semio is a venture-backed, privately held corporation based in San Mateo, California, with offices in the U.K. and worldwide distribution. For more information, visit www.semio.com or send email to info@semio.com.
©2001 Semio Corporation. All rights reserved. Semio and SemioMap are registered trademarks and the Semio logo, SemioTagger, SemioTaxonomy, and SemioSkyline are trademarks of Semio Corporation. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
Antarctica and Visual Net are trademarks or registered trademarks of Antarctica Systems Inc. in Canada and foreign countries. All other referenced trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Media Contact for Semio Corporation:
Barbara Llarena
Rocket Science
415-472-6490 ext. 7
barbara@rocketscience.com
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