A story about elephant and poachers. About rangers fighting wildlife crime. And about the role of semantics in all this.
A story also, about how high-tech companies are helping rangers to turn wild spaces into safe havens.
To make adequate decisions, businesses have to combine their databases - their own view of the world - with non-proprietary data. However, combining diverse data from multiple sources is a complex task. Matching concepts and entities across disparate data sources and recognizing their mentions in texts requires disambiguation of their meaning - something that comes easy to people, but computers often fail to do right. Because an average graduate has awareness about wide set of entities and concepts and computers do not.
CEO of Ontotext
Ontotext
https://ontotext.com/
Atanas Kiryakov is the founder and CEO of Ontotext – Semantic Web pioneer and vendor of semantic technology. Atanas is member of the board of the Linked Data Benchmarking Council - standardization body, who's members include all major graph database vendors.
