Semagix: Off the Semantic Radar?
June 19, 2011
A reader sent us a question about Semagix, a semantic search engine. Here’s what we’ve found.
One of the founders was Amit Sheth, whose bio reads:
“Amit Sheth is a Professor at the University of Georgia and CTO of Semagix, Inc. He started the LSDIS lab at Georgia in 1994. Earlier he served in R&D groups at Bellcore, Unisys, and Honeywell. He founded his second company, Taalee, in 1999 based on technology developed at the LSDIS lab, and managed it as CEO until June 2001. Following Taalee’s acquisition/merger, he currently serves as CTO and a co-founder of Semagix, Inc. His research has led to three significant commercial products, several deployed applications and over 150 publications”
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the company is alive and kicking:
“As of June 28, 2006, Semagix, Inc. was acquired by Fortent, Inc. Semagix, Inc. provides semantic metadata management solutions to enterprises and government institutions. It provides know your customer and due diligence products. The company’s know your customer solution allows financial institutions in identify, verify, and enhance due diligence processes. It has offices in the United States and Europe. Semagix was founded in 1996 as Protégé, Ltd. and changed its name to Semagix, Inc. in 2002.”
The company’s Web site is at www.semagix.com .
If anyone has more info, please use the comments section of this blog to amplify these sparse findings.
Cynthia Murrell, June 19, 2011
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