Agence France Presse (AFP) Entrusts Three Renowned Software Vendors to
Build its Multimedia Search Platform
PARIS, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As they engage in a major modernization
project of their editorial system, AFP, one of the world's leading news
agencies, chose Antidot, TEMIS and Mondeca to deploy an information search
and analysis solution adapted to the wide range of multimedia contents they
produce (newswires, pictures, graphics and videos).
AFP required a dedicated solution that provides their Corporate and
media customers with the ability to quickly retrieve information from an
ever-growing flow of multilingual and multimedia information, as well as
from a twenty-million document archive. This solution had to be integrated
at first within the AFP's << Image Forum >>, its e-business platform for
pictures.
At the end of 2007, AFP initiates a selection process for technology
partners able to match their needs in the domains of Text Mining, XML
indexing and semantic search.
To address the AFP project, TEMIS, Mondeca and Antidot chose to combine
their value proposition in a joint proposal based upon TEMIS Luxid(R), a
powerful Text Analytics application able to process all languages managed
by AFP; Mondeca's ITM, a flexible ontology management system able to
organize AFP's taxonomies and multilingual thesaurus ; Antidot's AFS, a
robust indexing and search platform for AFP's XML content. These three
software solutions have already been successfully integrated in various
applications and their joint deployment does not require any system
integrator's services.
"After studying Text Analytics and Enterprise search markets, and
prototyping diverse solutions, we are convinced that the quality of these
three companies developments added to their respective team expertise and
enthusiasm will bring us a powerful and agile solution which will perfectly
match our current and future needs. We will deploy an innovative
cross-media content search platform by the end of 2008, which will embed
the most recent industry and semantic web standards like NewsML-G2 and
OWL," said Laurent Le Meur, Medialab Technical Manager at AFP.
This solution is currently in deployment phase. By 2009, it will
address AFP's media customers making complex search from << Image Forum >>
e-business platform, which contains more than 8 millions of pictures from
AFP and their sixteen partners (incl. Getty Images). The use of these
powerful Text Analytics and information search solutions should be then
extended to cover AFP journalists' needs for archive and multimedia
documentation searches. The combined software solutions will also be used
to enrich in real-time the contents of AFP's newswires with value-added
metadata.
About AFP
AFP is a global news agency, delivering fast, accurate, in-depth
coverage of the events shaping our world from wars and conflicts to
politics, sports, entertainment as well as the latest breakthroughs in
health, science and technology. With 2,900 staff and stringers spread
across 165 countries, AFP covers the world 24 hours a day in six languages,
delivering the news in video, text, photographs, multimedia and graphics.
http://www.afp.com
About Antidot
Founded in 1999, Antidot's strong growth has accompanied that of the
Internet. It rapidly made a name for itself as a provider of search engine
technology and information access solutions for major portals and
enterprises.
All of Antidot's information access solutions are built on the same
award-winning and innovative technical framework: Antidot Finder Suite
(AFS). This technological backbone, with its thoroughly unique design, uses
the principle of software agents organized in a network. This architecture
delivers responses of higher relevance and performance because each agent
can be individually and precisely parameterized to fully leverage its
source and gathered to a truly unique search solution for the customer.
Thereby, AFS distinguishes itself in the market by providing the large
functional coverage of services needed by business: from competitive
monitoring, to searching and knowledge valuation in the enterprise
intranet, from searching in digital catalogs to navigation in large Web
portals.
Today, Antidot convinced prominent clients like Agence France Presse
(the world's second largest press agency), Credit Agricole (France's
leading bank with 7,150 branches), TF1 (the leading French general-interest
television network) 3 Suisses, the time-honored French leader in distance
selling and many more...
http://www.antidot.net
About TEMIS
Founded in 2000, TEMIS is the leading provider of Corporate Text Mining
and Text Analytics software solutions for the Enterprise.
TEMIS addresses the unstructured data management needs of Corporations
(Life Sciences, Publishing, Industry) and Governments, in environments
where information processing is critical such as Competitive Intelligence,
CRM, Scientific Intelligence, IP Management, Quality Management and
Homeland Security.
TEMIS solutions help thousands of users everyday gain immediate access
to business critical information, using entities and relations extraction,
automatic classification and semantic navigation, in order to reduce
information overload.
TEMIS' innovative technology has attracted major organizations such as
EMC, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, BASF, Bayer Healthcare, Solvay
Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Ingenuity, Thomson Reuters, Agence France-Presse,
Springer Science+Business Media, Elsevier, Bertelsmann, Total, Suez, PSA
Peugeot-Citroen, BNP Paribas, French Ministry of Defense, Europol, Invest
in France Agency.
http://www.temis.com
About Mondeca
Mondeca is editor of the Intelligent Topic Manager (ITM) ontology
management tool. ITM optimizes rich content organization and access by
providing sophisticated support for management of reference metadata,
terminologies, domain specific master data and knowledge bases. ITM
leverages these reference elements for content indexation and to deliver
navigation tools for web based content including taxonomies, indexes, and
knowledge base navigation aids.
These technologies leverage Mondeca's experience gained from active
participation in Semantic Web and ontology standardization efforts.
Created in 2000, Mondeca's tools are being used in Europe, the US and
Canada for applications including domain specific intranets, document
archive management, tourism web portal solutions, and legal publishing
frameworks for clients including AFP, LexisNexis, Wolters Kluwer,
Documentation Francaise, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, French Ministry of Defence,
Thomson Reuters and the French National Railway Company (SNCF).
http://www.mondeca.com
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CONTACT:
Press contacts: Agence France Presse, Pierre
Fernandez, Tel.: +33(0)1-40-41-49-23, pierre.fernandez@afp.com;
ANTIDOT, Franck Tupinier, MyNtic, Tel.: +33(0)4-93-24-08-38,
ftupinier@myntic-pr.com; MONDECA, Gilles Delaporte, Sales
director, Tel.: +33(0)1-44-92-35-00,
gilles.delaporte@mondeca.com; TEMIS, Martine Falhon, Corporate
Communications, Tel.: +33(0)4-56-38-24-03,
martine.falhon@temis.com
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