BYU Data Extraction Research Group Demo Index

Ontos is our data extraction engine. There are two demos of Ontos. Our High-Level Demo is for people who just want a general idea of what the data-extraction process can do. Our Detailed Demo is for people who want more detailed information.

We suggest that you use Internet Explorer 5.5+ (and Sun's Java Plugin for applets) to view the demo pages.


Our GeneTIQS demo shows our system for extracting genealogical data from the internet.


Our person-name grouping demo shows our system that groups search-engine returned citations for person-name queries such that the search-engine returned citations in each group belong to the same person.


A simplified demo of our new version of Ontos demonstrates the performance of this new system.


A simple demo shows how information extraction can be used to do semantic annotation, an enabling technology for the semantic web. (Currently, this demo only works properly when the browser is Internet Explorer.)


AskOntos is a system that provides a natural-language, free-form, query interface to extracted values from semantically annotated web pages.


The SerFR (Server for Free-form Request) allows users to invoke services using free-form, natural language specifications (Launch SerFR).

SerFR with more added capabilities to allow users to specify service requests in conjunctive and disjunctive normal forms (Launch Advanced version of SerFR).

SerFR allows you to call a real web service using free-form specification (Launch demo from here).