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Semio Launches SemioSkyline, A New ``Intuitive'' Interface for Categorized Document Display.


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SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2001

Semio Corporation, the leading provider of automated content categorization and indexing software, today announced the release of SemioSkyline, a new, more intuitive interface for browsing documents and unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database.  categorized and indexed by SemioTagger, Semio's categorization engine.

Offered as an optional interface to SemioTagger, SemioSkyline provides a quick, detailed view into document content, enabling users to browse and search for information organized by category within a familiar, directory-like structure. The SemioSkyline interface enables more fluid, intuitive navigation through large amounts of data, helping users pinpoint the information they need with a minimum of effort.

SemioSkyline displays detailed document profiles, allowing users to determine a document's relevance to their search before retrieving and reading it. SemioSkyline leverages the content categorization completed by SemioTagger to pull, build and display profile information. Profile information provided by SemioSkyline includes key concepts, author, abstract, URL URL
 in full Uniform Resource Locator

Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program.
 and creation date. A listing of relevant documents is displayed for each category enabling users to rapidly scan for and pinpoint the specific information desired.

Advanced search capabilities within SemioSkyline help users find documents using attributes such as text, title, author, abstract, creation date, URL, etc. These attributes can be ordered or combined as desired, giving users the ability to fine-tune searches, narrowing or broadening search criterion as desired. Users can continue to drill down through categories to review relevant topic areas and then refine or broaden searches at different category levels.

SemioTagger organizes massive volumes of online content into easily understood topic hierarchies by automatically identifying relevant phrases from the content and linking information based on the concept(s) contained in the phrases. SemioTagger also includes SemioMap, a graphical viewer for discovering relationships between document concepts; and SemioTaxonomy, a web-based taxonomy Web-based taxonomy is the effort by taxonomists to use the World Wide Web in order to create unified, consensus taxonomies of life on Earth.

In his 2002 paper on the subject[1], H. Charles J.
 viewer.

SemioSkyline works on Microsoft Windows See Windows.

(operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then.
 NT 4.X or Windows 2000 servers with most web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical
Historically important browsers
In order of release:
  • WorldWideWeb, February 26, 1991
  • Erwise, April 1992
  • ViolaWWW, May 1992, see Erwise
. It is available immediately through Semio and Semio resellers.

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 solutions help companies optimize the value of their online information and gain a critical competitive advantage by effectively organizing content so that users can easily navigate, retrieve and analyze the information they need. Semio's parented core technology, SemioTagger(TM) analyzes and categorizes large volumes of information automatically. SemioTagger can be embedded directly in a portal or used on conjunction with Semio's viewers, SemioMap(R), SemioTaxonomy(TM) and SemioSkyline(TM). Semio's customers include AT&T, Cisco, DuPont, Stanford HighWire Press HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries that produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Recipient of the 2003 ALPSP Award for "Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing", HighWire partners with influential , IDG IDG International Data Group
IDG Integrated Drive Generator
IDG Installation Design Guide
IDG Internet Discussion Group
IDG Inset Dielectric Guide
IDG International Dangerous Goods (mail, shipping) 
, Procter & Gamble and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  Postal Service. Semio has partnerships with major portal vendors such as Epicentric, Plumtree, InfoImage and Sequoia. Semio is a venture-backed, privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market
close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation
 based in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , with offices in the U.K. and Australia. For more information, visit www.semio.com or send email to info@semio.com.

Note to Editors: Semio and SemioMap are registered trademarks and the Semio logo, SemioTagger, SemioTaxonomy, and SemioSkyline are trademarks of Semio Corporation. Netscape is a registered trademark of Netscape Corporation. Microsoft, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
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