Federal Minister Brüderle visits THESEUS

How citizens will do search in the future internet, was presented to the Federal Minister Rainer Brüderle at the booth of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) through the THESEUS application scenario ALEXANDRIA and the Core Technology Cluster.

The THESEUS research program was initiated by the BMWi in 2007 and provided with funding. This is why the Federal Minister was particularly interested in the latest examples of THESEUS. On the first day of the fair he visited the booth of the BMWi at the CeBIT and had Florian Kuhlmann, director of application scenario ALEXANDRIA, explained the "Collaborative Knowledge Engine".

Mr. Kuhlmann showed the minister how the system recognizes natural inquiries and assembles appropriate search results. Particularly interesting was how relationships were created between the individual performance categories such as person, place and time, and how these results were visualized. Finally, Rainer Brüderle drafted a request to the system himself.

Afterwards Patrick Ndjiki-Nya from the Core Technology Cluster (CTC) explained how THESEUS technologies can be used to improve the processing of multimedia content. On the example of famous TV shows Ndjiki-Nya demonstrated how the recording of the broadcast can be dissected into individual scenes and settings. Furthermore how winner and the accompanying bet of the TV show can be identified using semantic technologies. Moreover the application generates a statistical analysis over the duration of the mission sighted logos. In the future these technologies will make work much easier, especially in multimedia archives.