Semantic SP (http://semantic-sharepoint.com) offers more precise search results based on controlled vocabularies, automatic tagging, entity extraction based on automatic text analysis, enrichment of SharePoint search index, browsing over complex knowledge domains or enterprise vocabularies. Ask for a demo!

1. Semantic SharePoint
Technical Briefing
Helmut Nagy, Semantic Web Company
Tibor Gal-Bancsi, iQuest
Thomas Wittig, iQuest
Andreas Blumauer, Semantic Web Company

2. What is Semantic SP?
1. a joint venture between iQuest and Semantic Web
Company, initiated in 2012
2. a bundle of web parts to make a SharePoint server ‘smarter’
3. an architecture to link and mash content from SharePoint
with content from other sources
4. ‘smartness’ is based on semantic technologies:
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automatic text analytics
automatic semantic annotation (‘PowerTagging’)
semantic search
automatic content linking & enrichment
360O views: knowledge through information integration

3. Why is Semantic SP important?
1. a ‘document’ is no longer the only source of knowledge in
a typical intranet
2. to generate new knowledge, information from various
sources has to be linked and integrated
3. smart content management has become an important
issue in many knowledge-intensive industries
4. information retrieval systems have increasing demand for
better precision and recall of search results
5. need for facilitated access to complex content through
context information

4. Architecture (High-Level)
SharePoint serves as content source and as presentation layer
Presentation Layer
Semantic
Knowledge
Base
Power
Tagging
Taxonomy
Import
...
PP API / SPARQL endpoint
Automatic Linking
Semantic Layer: Thesauri & Knowledge Graphs
PP API / Text Analytics
Document
collections
Content Source
Wiki
pages
Task
lists
...
Web content / Web APIs
Other DMS / CMS
Legacy data

5. Use Cases &
example applications
• Business dashboards: Integrated views over
business objects
• Dynamic Matchmaking: Find experts in a
company based on content they have created
• Q&A machines: Provide facilities to answer
complex queries; combine information from
documents with data from databases
• …

6. PowerTagging - Overview
The PowerTagging integration adds
the following features:
• Automatic and manual tagging of
SharePoint list items and
uploaded documents
• Enrichment of the SharePoint
search index based on the tagged
content. The search index can be
enriched by:
• labels of tagged concepts
• relations of tagged concepts
and their labels (top
concepts, broader
concepts, related concepts)

7. PowerTagging - Configuration
• Basic tagging configuration is done
on Site Collection level
• Configuration can be modified on
Site level
• Tagging can be configured per
List/App for a SharePoint Site
• Search Enrichment configuration is done
on Site Collection level
• Semantic meta-information to be added
to the search index can be defined
• Information can be written to more than
one custom field

8. PowerTagging - Tagging
• Tagging is done
automatically when
content is created
• Tagging for content items
can later be reviewed and
manually refined
• Additional tags can be
added manually on
demand

9. PowerTagging - Search
Based on the search
enrichment the following
features are available:
• Autocomplete
• Additional search
navigators based on
thesaurus structure
• Query expansion
All features can be configured
(e.g. number of results for
autocomplete)
in the search web part
configuration.

10. Semantic Knowledge Base
The Semantic Knowledge
Base web part allows to
browse a semantic
knowledge graph or an
enterprise vocabulary within
SharePoint and offers the
following features:
• Search including
autocomplete
• Tree View
• List View
• Configurable Details View
including
• Map view
• Images

11. Semantic Knowledge Base
The Semantic Knowledge Base web part is highly
configurable:
• PoolParty Server & Knowledge graph to be
used
• Default language
• Default search behaviour
• Default view
• Limit results
• Properties to be displayed
• Order of Properties
• Display image
• Display map

12. Taxonomy Import
PoolParty knowledge
graphs can be
imported into the
SharePoint Term
Store to be used for
SharePoint’s native
tagging feature.
In addition, also a
thesaurus that can
be used to expand
search queries with
synonyms can be
imported

13. Taxonomy Import
PoolParty supports
the export of
vocabularies and
knowledge graphs in
SharePoint format
via Custom Reports.
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Managed metadata
Import file format
Create and deploy a
thesaurus in
SharePoint
“PoolParty Custom Reports” is a generic feature of PoolParty Thesaurus Server which
allows the creation of customized exports of data selected by SPARQL queries and
formatted as needed by using templates.

14. Contact
http://www.semantic-sharepoint.com
http://www.poolparty.biz
Helmut Nagy
COO, Semantic Web Company
+43 1 4021235
h.nagy@semantic-web.at
Tibor Gal-Bancsi
Head of Microsoft Solutions, iQuest
+40 372 343400
tibor.gal@iquestgroup.com